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	Tailhook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A tailhook or arrestor hook is a device attached to the rear of an aircraft.
		The tailhook is a strong metal bar, with its free end flattened out, thickened somewhat, and fashioned into a claw-like hook.
		The term 'hooked' is sometimes used to describe aircraft fitted with a tailhook.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tailhook (249 words)

	Haunting Tournament Winner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		After a great tournament, Tailhook emerges victorious, successfully defending the British Isles from submarine, surface and bomber attacks by the Russian forces under the command of Gost Rider.
		The Russian attack force, spearheaded by the Russian Carrier Baku, with General Doolitov onboard, was dealt an early deadly blow, as F-18 and Buccaneer aircraft converged on the task force, sinking the Baku.
		According to Tailhook, "the pressure was almost unbearable, with round-the-clock enemy bomber sorties, but our aircrews performed their duties excellently".
	www.jcpress.com /tailhook/winner.htm (440 words)

	Tailhook Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word tailhook refers to the hook underneath the tail of the aircraft that catches the arresting wire suspended across the flight deck in order to stop the landing plane quickly.
		The issues were never quite settled, and as late as 2002, the Tailhook chairman spoke of "the alleged misconduct that occurred in 1991".
		Lawrence Garrett III and CNO Admiral Frank Kelso were both at Tailhook '91.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tailhook_Association (473 words)

	Tailhook: The Navy Response (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The notorious Tailhook affair, the 1991 gathering of Navy pilots in Las Vegas which was marked by the harassment of female officers by drunken airmen, is well-known for its brazen assaults.
		Viewing the Tailhook affair as a criminal matter might lead investigators on a cold trail: the specific perpetrators who grabbed specific women would be hard to find.
		Alternatively, Tailhook could be viewed as a problem in the culture of the Navy, one calling for demotions or dismissals as matters of management, not prosecution.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /case/caseweb/catalog/abstracts/TailhookTheNav.html (225 words)

	CJ Online Nation/World News: Tailhook, Navy may reunite 07/09/99
		ASHINGTON -- Eight years after the Tailhook scandal of drunken escapades and sexual abuse rocked the Navy and forced changes in its treatment of women, Navy leaders are considering restoring official recognition to the aviators group that was host for the debauchery.
		Rehabilitating the Tailhook Association is a remaining piece of "unfinished business" in the Navy's effort to put the scandal behind it, Adm. Jay Johnson, the chief of naval operations, said in an interview.
		While acknowledging the Tailhook episode is an "emotional and sensitive issue," Johnson said he is weighing only the practical question of whether Tailhook belongs back in the Navy fold as an organization meant to foster camaraderie and professional enrichment.
	www.cjonline.com /stories/070999/new_tailhook.shtml (300 words)

	Women, Violence and the U.S. Navy
		The Tailhook Association, therefore, was seen by the majority of its members and by those outside of the Association as a government-sanctioned organization.
		Tailhook '91 was seen as a celebration of the U.S. "liberation" of Kuwait and defeat of Iraqi forces earlier that year.
		In addition, by October 1993 Tailhook had lost 80 percent of its corporate sponsors, membership had dropped 15 percent and insurance premiums had skyrocketed, primarily because of the 12 lawsuits filed by women who claim they were sexually assaulted at Tailhook '91.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/june94pohl.htm (4491 words)

	"Tailhook" Aftermath: Don't Feminize the Fleet
		The Tailhook saga began last September in Las Vegas at the convention of the Tailhook Associ a tion, named for the device that stops landing aircraft on the decks of carriers.
		Tailhook and Congres& The initial congressional response to the Tailhook affair is damaging the morale and combat effectiveness of the Navy.
		For example, in a June'29 inierview on Cable"News Network concerning the Tailhook incident, Schroeder criticized the Navy"s handling of the issue, implying that the real problem was the unequal treatment of women.
	www.heritage.org /Research/NationalSecurity/bu184.cfm?renderforprint=1 (1536 words)

	The Power of the Virgin:
		Tailhook cannot and will not condone the blatant and total disregard of individual rights and public/private property!… We in Naval Aviation and the Tailhook Association are bigger than this.
		But the events at Tailhook gained their significance because they were not seen as a disciplinary problem within the culture; rather they were seen as a problem of the culture itself.
		Tailhook should have been a three or maybe a five-day story…Instead, we are now at four years and counting, and its casualty list reads like a who’s who of naval aviation.
	www.sba.oakland.edu /faculty/schwartz/POVdr2p1.htm (7282 words)

	Tailhook (Nova foe)
		Her sister was raped at the Naval Tailhook Convention, and later committed suicide.
		Tailhook left a diary page in the mailbox, detailing the hardships of being a vigilante.
		That night Tailhook revealed her history to Nova, and he pleaded with her to turn herself in.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/tailhook.htm (447 words)

	AlterNet: From Tailhook To Newshook
		Her case is G-rated compared to some, including the incident that started it all: the infamous 1991 Tailhook convention, in which male aviators assaulted dozens of female colleagues at a Las Vegas gathering of military pilots.
		The Tailhook story had been fairly abstract because no flesh-and-blood victim had come forward to the national media until Coughlin, who described in detail how she was pawed and attacked.
		In the two-month period before she came forward, there were 176 stories on Tailhook in the Nexis news archive; in the two-month period after she went public, the number shot up to 995.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=13262 (3087 words)

	NAVY MAY RESTORE TIES TO DASTARDLY TAILHOOK ASSOCIATION (my title) [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Johnson attended the September 1991 convention of Tailhook members at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel but was never touched by the scandal, which triggered the resignation of Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett and the early retirement of Adm. Frank B. Kelso, then the chief of naval operations.
		Any discussion of Tailhook is bound to recall the debauchery of the 1991 convention in Las Vegas, for which the Defense Department Inspector General implicated 117 officers for sexual assault, indecent exposure and other acts, and faulted the Navy's leaders for failing to stop the behavior.
		The difference between the 1991 Tailhook and previous ones was largely due to a charge by a Naval lieutenant named Paula Coughlin that she had been sexually assaulted by a group of Naval aviators, who had arranged themselves in a "gauntlet," and that her superiors had not responded promptly to her complaint.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a37854bcc0608.htm (1409 words)

	Center for Military Readiness +++ Social Policies
		She rushed to define Tailhook as a "watershed event"-a revelation of the Navy's sexual harassment so shocking that it could be remedied only by lifting the prohibition against women in combat.
		The story broke in October when a letter from the head of the Tailhook Association berating officers for activities "far over the line of responsible behavior" was leaked to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
		Just weeks before Tailhook, despite strict prohibitions against lobbying by uniformed personnel, Lieutenant Coughlin was one of several women allowed to lobby for Representative Schroeder's bill to repeal laws exempting women from combat aviation.
	www.cmrlink.org /social.asp?docID=106 (2564 words)

	5 YEARS AFTER TAILHOOK, A CHANGED NAVY
		The Tailhook era began with a symposium of 4,000-plus Navy fliers at the Las Vegas Hilton, an annual event known for its after-hours parties and the unique forum it provided junior and senior officers for frank discussion of the issues facing naval aviation.
		The Tailhook Association - the name refers to the hook that drops from the rear of each Navy fighter to snag cables strung across the carrier deck and halt the plane safely - was marking its 35th birthday in 1991 with its biggest gathering ever.
		The revelers were overwhelmingly male, but at least a few Navy women joined, stripping off their tops as male colleagues cheered, visiting a special suite to have their legs shaved in public, or conducting ``equipment checks,'' in which they grasped the groin of clothed male aviators.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1996/vp960907/09070177.htm (2540 words)

	State: Ex-Blue Angel leader gets Tailhook-delayed promotion
		Although the Navy cleared Robert Stumpf of wrongdoing at the 1991 Tailhook Association convention in Las Vegas, it blocked his promotion from commander to captain in 1995.
		Stumpf was suspended as commanding officer of the Navy's precision flying team, based at Pensacola Naval Air Station, in 1993 during a Tailhook investigation.
		He later was restored as the team's leader after the Navy cleared him of an allegation that he did nothing to stop a junior officer from having consensual sex with a stripper.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/08/01/news_pf/State/Ex_Blue_Angel_leader_.shtml (416 words)

	"Tailhook" Aftermath: Don't Feminize the Fleet
		Twenty-six women have charged that they were sexually assaulted by a number of officers at last September's annual convention of the Tailhook Association, the professional or- ganization of naval and marine aviators.
		The Tailhook saga began last September in Las Vegas at the convention of the Tailhook Association, named for the device that stops landing aircraft on the decks of carriers.
		They must: 1) expeditiously but fairly investigate and punish those who are found guilty in the Tailhook case; 2) continue vigorously their support for the "zero tolerance" pol- icy toward sexual misconduct that was developed in 1989; and 3) forcefully explain to Congress and the American public why women should not be allowed in combat.
	www.heritage.org /Research/NationalSecurity/bu184.cfm (1691 words)

	Gale Schools - Women's History Month - Trials - Tailhook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		There were many flag officers — admirals and generals — present at the Tailhook Convention who could and should have called a halt to the out-of-hand "partying" — including the chief of Naval Operations, Frank Kelso, as well as Navy Secretary Garrett.
		The Tailhook Association settled with Coughlin before trial for $400,000 — and with six other women who likewise had sued charging sexual assault.
		He deducted the Tailhook settlement from the $1.7 million compensatory damage and cut back the punitive damages to $3.9 million because Nevada law limited punitive damages to three times the compensatory damages.
	www.galeschools.com /womens_history/trials/tailhook.htm (1386 words)

	TAILHOOK: CRASHING THE PARTY
		Many will look at this book about ``Tailhook,'' the sex scandal that turned the world of naval aviation upside down, as yet one more in a long line of feminist salvos, another round of bad publicity meant to be endured and ultimately ignored.
		Zimmerman's writing style and exhaustive research have produced an account of Tailhook that stretches far beyond the third floor of the Las Vegas Hilton, where dozens of women claimed they were assaulted during the 1991 aviators convention.
		Tailhook is less about criminal conduct than it is about prejudice and fear.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950709/07060468.htm (832 words)

	Pentagon Blasts Tailhook Probe, Two Admirals Resign
		The Navy conducted a poorly coordinated, half-hearted investigation into sexual assault allegations stemming from the 1991 Tailhook convention, and did so under the direction of an admiral who apparently doubted that women belonged in the military, Pentagon investigators said Thursday in their first major report on the scandal.
		The report, released at a press conference by Acting Navy Secretary Sean O'Keefe, criticized three naval officers and the Navy's second-highest ranking civilian for their roles overseeing an investigation hobbled by bad planning, a narrow focus on lower-level officers and an overweening concern for the Navy's reputation.
		Williams, commander of the naval investigative service and the officer who most directly oversaw the investigation, repeatedly expressed desire to end the probe and on one occasion, told a Navy civilian that he did not believe women belong in military service, according to the report.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V112/N44/tailhook.44w.html (840 words)

	LAS VEGAS RJ:NEWS: Members of Tailhook put lascivious repu...
		No Navy aircraft or vehicles are to be used to transport conventioneers to Tailhook, and the officers attend on their own time, per Navy policy.
		A tailhook refers to the hook at the back of Navy aircraft that lets them land on an aircraft carrier by snagging a cable stretched across the deck.
		At Tailhook 1998, as with other recent conventions, the suites were spread throughout the hotel.
	www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/1998/Sep-14-Mon-1998/news/8214937.html (531 words)

	Social Anarchism: The Tailhook Report
		In earlier Tailhook conventions, the gauntlet was "simply" a group of boisterous and drunken men who shoved each other, spilled and threw drinks, and hooted at and "rated" the women who passed by.
		While one is tempted to laugh at some of the more absurd manifestations of the macho sexuality Tailhook 91 reveals, there is clearly a darker side to all of this.
		Only because of the extraordinary courage of a few women who refused to be silenced, did the extensive nature of both the events of Tailhook and the high level cover-up of the affair become public.
	www.socialanarchism.org /mod/magazine/display/34/index.php (1522 words)

	CNN.com - US - Navy investigating alleged misconduct at latest Tailhook convention - August 25, 2000
		The 2000 Tailhook Association convention was held August 17-20 at the Nugget Hotel near Reno.
		The Tailhook Association is an unofficial club founded by Navy and Marine Corps fighter pilots during the Vietnam war.
		The term "tailhook" refers to the hook-like device under Navy aircraft that latches onto cables on the deck of aircraft carriers to assist in their landings.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/08/25/tailhook.allegations.02/index.html (913 words)

	New Navy Tailhook [Free Republic]
		Navy Investigating New Tailhook Allegation By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy said on Friday it was investigating allegations of misconduct by military fliers at a Tailhook Association convention last week in Reno, Nevada, nine years after sexual abuse and debauchery at a similar gathering in Las Vegas battered the Navy's reputation.
		The Navy cut off all ties with the Tailhook Association after the 1991 scandal at a Las Vegas hotel, but renewed official contacts this year after assurances that incidents similar to the sexual assaults and fondling of females at the earlier meeting would not be repeated.
		The private Tailhook group of retired Navy and Marine Corps aviators, named for the steel hook on jets that enables them to land on aircraft carriers, is based in San Diego and its members long have been associated with Navy and Marine Corps fliers.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39a6eefb3b31.htm (720 words)

	Nova #2 Series 2
		Tailhook was the one who had left Laura the diary entry and considers Laura her friend.
		Tailhook's sister had been a Naval officer who was attacked by fellow officers at the Navy's Tailhook Convention.
		The officers were never brought to justice and Tailhook's sister was passed over for promotions due to her testimony.
	home.mchsi.com /~nova64/nova2-2.htm (591 words)

	''The Mother of all Hooks''
		Yet the quasi-official nature of the Tailhook convention challenges the public/private dichotomy embedded in McMichael's/Moskos' interpretation, and the military frequently ignores or conveniently erases this public/private distinction, as, for example, in the pursuit of gay/lesbian service personnel.
		Zimmerman goes on to consider the connections between Tailhook and the controversy over gays/lesbians in the military as well as the longer history of women's entry to the military institution as a whole, particularly in the context of the resumption of the post-Cold War downsizing and restructuring which had paused during the Gulf War (pp.
		He continues, "Tailhook was and continues to be an overreaction by the nation's civilian leadership that has forced social changes down the military's throat--some good, some detrimental" and that it has created "a climate of political correctness that has in some cases lowered training standards, sometimes endangering others and dulling morale" (p.
	www.holysmoke.org /fem/fem0596.htm (2456 words)

	Tailhook Pilot Jokes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Once upon a time there were three Navy pilots in the officers club: a transport pilot, a patrol pilot, and a tailhook pilot.
		Three tailhook pilots were walking through the forest when they came upon a set of tracks.
		A tailhook pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when he is flying, and about flying when he is with a woman.
	www.geocities.com /ornerypest/tailhook.html (413 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. Navy investigating incident at last week's Tailhook convention - August 25, 2000
		But the case recalls the Tailhook Association's 1991 convention, which created a sex scandal that forced the resignation of the Navy's civilian chief and focused attention on sexual harassment throughout the military.
		Last year the Navy sent several senior representatives to the Tailhook convention as part of a review to determine whether the Navy should restore ties to the organization.
		Navy Secretary Richard Danzig announced in January, "We've concluded that the time is right to restore ties." He said he was convinced that Tailhook's leaders had made a commitment to avoiding trouble of the kind that happened in 1991.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/US/08/25/tailhook.allegation.ap/index.html (686 words)

	Why Tailhook Matters
		Tailhook has been a large part of my Navy life, and the sense of fraternity it provides is a huge reason that I’m still in the Navy.
		As a member of the Board of Directors, my motivation for Tailhook to continue to thrive is so my junior officers may have the same opportunity that I had to experience the kinship and camaraderie that is so unique to Naval Aviation — and best personified by Tailhook.
		Being part of the legacy of Tailhook and its members’ contribution to our nation over the years is a crucial intangible that can never be replaced by a bigger bonus, more pay or the never-fulfilled promise of less sea duty and more spare parts.
	www.tailhook.org /GilWi99.htm (945 words)

	‘Tailhook scandal’ finds congressmen in same boat=TheHill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In late January, six congressional aides made a less publicized tailhook landing on the USS Nimitz as it also plied the waters off of Southern California, Navy records show.
		Finally, a group of lawmakers led by House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) made a tailhook landing on the USS Harry S Truman, deployed in the Mediterranean Sea.
		Following Bush’s tailhook landing on the Lincoln, a number of Democrats decried the event as a costly publicity stunt.
	www.hillnews.com /news/051303/tailhook.aspx (689 words)

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