
	Where results make sense

Topic: Tailhook scandal

Related Topics

Department of Defense

American political scandals

2002 in aviation

Grenzschutzgruppe 9

Yawatahama, Ehime

1991

Mark Wahlberg

Gun politics in the United States

Collapse of the Soviet Union

2002

Eastern Airlines

1904

Common year starting on Tuesday

Pan American World Airways

Clarence Thomas

In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	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.
		On October 29, 199, following a series of investigations, the Department of the Navy terminated all ties to the association, and ties were not restored until January 19, 1999.
		This page was last modified 19:24, 12 November 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tailhook_scandal (177 words)

	TAILHOOK: SCANDAL DRAMATIZED ON ABC
		``She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal,'' starring Gail O'Grady of ``NYPD Blue,'' is a dramatization of the events surrounding a scandal that shook the Navy from mast to keel.
		Tailhook was beginning to fade from the memory of many Americans when Humphreys and her colleagues brought it back to life with the ABC project.
		Tailhook scandal and a former helicopter pilot assigned to the Norfolk
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950522/05200062.htm (1793 words)

	NAVY MAY RESTORE TIES TO DASTARDLY TAILHOOK ASSOCIATION (my title) [Free Republic]
		WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.
		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)

	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 scandal’ finds congressmen in same boat=TheHill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	Spacefem.com :: View topic - Sexual Assault on Women in the US Military
		The Tailhook Association is a private organization that began in 1956 as a reunion of naval aviators in Tijuana, Mexico, and moved to Las Vegas in 1963.
		At this point Tailhook is no longer remembered for the annual reunion of active duty, retired Navy, Reserve, Marine Corps aviators, and defense contractors, but rather for the sexual assault and harassment committed by some of these men, and permitted by some of their superiors during the Tailhook Convention of 1991.
		Tailhook presented the necessity of not only cleaning up the mess directly related to the scandal but also working towards preventing future events similar to this one.
	spacefem.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=12853 (3232 words)

	joe jenett's dailywebthing
		The reported incident comes nine years after a major scandal involving sexual harassment at a Tailhook convention, causing deep embarrassment for the Navy and forcing the resignation of a top Navy official.
		According to media reports, Tailhook conventioneers made bawdy remarks to the couple at the Nugget Hotel in Reno and touched the woman.
		Tailhook, named for the hook that catches jets landing on aircraft carriers, is a private group of retired Navy and Marine fliers.
	www.coolstop.com /dailywebthing/newspage/core?seek=n082500 (747 words)

	ipedia.com: Tailhook scandal Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Tailhook Association is a fraternal nonprofit organization, supporting the interests of pilots and aircrew.
		According to a Department of Defense report, 83 women and 7 men were assaulted, many sex...
		A series of official invetigations were conducted, but all widely criticized, and as late as 2002, the Tailhook chairman spoke of "the alleged misconduct that occurred in 1991".
	www.ipedia.com /tailhook_scandal.html (186 words)

	[No title]
		The Tailhook Convention of Navy Aviators symposium events in the Las Vegas Hilton over the 1991 Labor Day weekend became out of control when males and females were sexually harassed, molested, assaulted and raped.
		The Primary Affected by the Tailhook scandal: A.
		Tailhook may have ended and been forgotten much sooner had the leaders at the time assumed responsibility and communicated honestly at the beginning.
	www.wsu.edu /~moonlee/pr475msgs/art.187.html (1376 words)

	TIMELINE 1980-1995
		At their annual Tailhook Convention on the third floor of a Las Vegas hotel a group of drunken, abusive Navy pilots form a gauntlet in a hallway where they force 83 females (some officers) to pass, mauling, fondling, stripping off the women's clothes, and assaulting them.
		Tailhook scandal exposes cultural and generation gap between old-guard Navy admirals who say "what's the big deal?" and are convinced that any women who were sexually assaulted must have "welcomed it."
		Navy Judge Captain William Vest throws out remaining charges against 3 Navy fliers accused in Tailhook scandal ruling that the top officer in charge (Admiral Frank B. Kelso) witnessed the drunken debauchery at Tailhook, lied about his knowledge of it, and manipulated the initial investigation such that the evidence was not reliable.
	www.coax.net /people/lwf/1980_95.HTM (1265 words)

	Witch Hunt In The Navy
		The Tailhook scandal has been "spun up," to borrow a service phrase, into a crisis that affects the Navy leadership's credibility on a wide range of issues.
		A botched internal investigation and the ongoing revelations of inexcusable harassment of women at a Las Vegas convention of, naval aviators a year ago have also left in their wake a witch hunt that threatens to swamp the entire naval service.
		It was evident in the Tailhook investigation, termed a cover-up by the Pentagon inspector general, that should have been resolved quickly and without sweeping damnation.
	www.jameswebb.com /articles/nytimes/navywitchhunt.htm (1122 words)

	''The Mother of all Hooks'' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	THE MOTHER OF ALL HOOKS
		He came to know the character of the people involved: the accused, the prosecution and defense teams, the military panels sitting in judgment, even the investigators and the many witnesses called to testify.
		The book's title comes from an October 1991 letter from the president of the Tailhook Association to association members: ''Without a doubt, it was the biggest and most successful Tailhook we have ever had.
		No matter how you feel about Tailhook, there's no denying that events up in that hallway and the party suites were unsavory at best.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/060597/motherof.htm (762 words)

	Navy Times - News - More News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		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.
		Stumpf had gone to the convention to receive an award from the association of retired and active duty naval aviators, which is named for the hook used to stop planes when landing on aircraft carriers.
	www.navytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-1036252.php (423 words)

	The Mother of All Hooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mother of All Hooks is a detailed account of the Tailhook scandal that rocked the US Navy and its leadership.
		The bacchanalia that took place at the 1991 Tailhook Association Convention in the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel is not the central theme of this book.
		Perhaps most compelling are the revelations of the Navy’s ingrained, outdated approach towards leadership, accountability, and due process and the ways in which those attitudes affected the ultimate disposition of the case.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/bookrev/mcmichael.html (491 words)

	Tailhook
		The Tailhook Association is an independent, fraternal, nonprofit organization internationally recognized as the premier supporter of the aircraft carrier and other sea-based aviation.
		The purposes of the Association are: to foster, encourage, develop, study, and support the aircraft carrier, sea-based aircraft, both fixed and rotary wing, and aircrews of the United States of America; and to educate and inform the public in the appropriate role of the aircraft carrier and carrier aviation in the nation's defense system.
		The Tailhook Educational Foundation is a charitable nonprofit California corporation created in February 1992.
	www.tailhook.org (211 words)

	One Hand Clapping
		Wayne Allard, R-Colo., said he believes the situation at the academy is worse than the 1991 Tailhook Scandal -- when dozens of women complained they were groped or assaulted by drunken pilots at a Navy booster group's convention -- because the system has failed the cadets in this case.
		The outcome of the Tailhook scandal (named for the Tailhook Association, an association of carrier-qualified naval aviators and other naval personnel) was that the secretary of the Navy resigned.
		With regard to the most celebrated case in the Tailhook scandal, the Marine Corps dropped all charges against the Marine captain charged by Lieutenant Paula Coughlin with sexual molestation.
	donaldsensing.com /2003/03/usaf-rape-scandal-will-be-bigger-than.html (643 words)

	Randy Cunningham (Duke Cunningham) -- 51st foes blast Cunningham
		CARLSBAD — Randy “Duke” Cunningham’s rivals in the 51st Congressional District race are questioning the Republican front runner’s integrity in the wake of his recent comments that called for “shooting” liberal House leaders.
		In addition, a memo Cunningham sent in 1985 to the Tailhook Association, an organization of Naval aviators, may further undermine his credibility, Herbert said.
		While some of the items were later addressed, a “lack of command presence” may have led to last year’s scandal, he said.
	www.dukecunningham.org /bibliography/ncbc19921010.html (548 words)

	ONE LAWSUIT SETTLED IN TAILHOOK SCANDAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In her lawsuits, which sought an unspecified amount in damages, Coughlin accused the Tailhook Association of failing to supervise the convention properly and the LasVegas Hilton of negligence in failing to implement better security even though the hotel had been the scene of prior Tailhook conventions.
		However, former Navy Secretary Lawrence H. Garrett III was forced out of office because of the scandal and at least five flag officers were forced into early retirement or denied promotions because of their failure to stop it.
		Coughlin, 32, whose accusations first brought attention to the scandal, resigned from the Navy in February, saying ``covert attacks'' against her, presumably for blowing the whistle on the Navy fliers, forced her to quit.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940909/09090616.htm (411 words)

	Center for Military Readiness +++ Social Policies
		To clear up some of the confusion and to discourage future affronts to the families of naval aviators who were affected by Tailhook, CMR has written directly to the New York Times, and posted the March 1994 National Review article by Elaine Donnelly, titled "The Tailhook Scandals," elsewhere on this website.
		Wilson Flagg, a retired rear admiral who was one of three admirals censured by the Navy over the 1991 Tailhook sexual-assault scandal, died in the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Pentagon, his family said yesterday.
		Raucous behavior at Tailhook ’91 was reprehensible, but allegations of sexual assault, actually experienced by only two women, were greatly exaggerated.
	www.cmrlink.org /social.asp?docID=108 (1233 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gail O'Grady played Lt. Paula Coughlin in the TV movie "She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal," a modern morality play in which all the women are strong and all the men are good-looking and the script is definitely below average.
		Despite writer Suzanne Couture's determined effort to paint her picture with one-way brushstrokes, the messy ambiguities of reality swirled visibly beneath the surface.
		There's general agreement it was an orgy, but that would have come as no surprise to the real-life Coughlin, who had been to Tailhook six years earlier.
	www.plethora.net /~linsee/columns/columns1995/19950526 (732 words)

	Rape's Defenders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That case-like the Tailhook scandal-was treated as an aberration.
		But Okinawa's is just one in a staggering number of rape cases among U.S. military personnel, and part of a pattern of cover-up involving officials ranging from local base commanders to the Pentagon's allies in Congress.
		This scandal surfaced just before the opening of the trial of the Bosnian Serb Dusko Tadic in The Hague-the first international tribunal to consider military rape among crimes against humanity.
	www.oz.net /~vvawai/sw/sw33/pgs_31-40/rape.html (742 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Rights on Trial - Tailhook Scandal
		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.
		In addition, in a pre-trial hearing, the accused's lawyer produced a picture of the man — alledgedly taken at the time of the Tailhook incident — in different clothing than Coughlin had described, and so the Marine general acting as judge dismissed the case.
		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.galegroup.com /free_resources/whm/trials/tailhook.htm (1550 words)

	Lifetimetv.com: Movies - She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
		She faces a struggle against the military after she presses charges and the scandal becomes public.
		"She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal" deals with the issue of stalking.
		The National Center for Victims of Crime is the nation's leading resource and advocacy organization for victims of crime.
	www.lifetimetv.com /movies/info/move2585.html (201 words)

	Navy Reverses Itself on Tailhook Pilot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The U.S. Navy this month righted a longstanding wrong when it admitted that Robert Stumpf had been the victim of a politically-motivated witch hunt during the Tailhook scandal.
		His crime at the Tailhook convention was that he attended a party which featured several strippers.
		Although four separate investigations cleared Stumpf of any wrongdoing at Tailhook, in the hysteria over the scandal Stumpf's previously approved promotion to captain was withdrawn.
	www.equityfeminism.com /822 (177 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)