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THE WEEK, Page 13NATIONHung Up on Tailhook
Newly found snapshots add a sordid chapter to the Navy sex
scandal
Announcements and a major reorganization plan, the scandal
bobbed right back to the surface. Investigators in San Diego
discovered a cache of several rolls of film that showed the
manhandling of a 17-year-old girl who was partly disrobed by a
corridorful of rowdy Navy and Marine aviators at the 1991
Tailhook Association convention in the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel.
The snapshots detail an episode in which the hopelessly
inebriated teenager staggers down the hall while drunken
officers tear off parts of her clothing. A hotel guard finally
leads the girl away as a Navy officer zestfully waves her jeans
and panties.
Possibly even more embarrassing to the Navy was a
videotape record of one of the Tailhook workshops that took
place two hours earlier that same day, in which senior Navy
brass -- including Chief of Naval Operations Frank Kelso and
former Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III -- sat by as Navy
officers jeered the idea of women in combat. "By not taking a
stand at this moment, these gentlemen created an atmosphere
conducive to what happened afterward," said a Navy officer who
witnessed the incident.