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- <text id=92TT1801>
- <title>
- Aug. 10, 1992: Hung Up on Tailhook
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 10, 1992 The Doomsday Plan
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 13
- NATION
- Hung Up on Tailhook
- </hdr><body>
- <p>Newly found snapshots add a sordid chapter to the Navy sex
- scandal
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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