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The integration of women into the military
The Tailhook Assn scandal in 1991 focused attention on the male culture of the military and the problems with integrating women into the armed services. However, a closer look at alleged incidents of sexual abuse shows that the media blew everything out of proportion.See the full content of this document
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Recovering from a tailspin.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY JOHN DALTON was right--although for the wrong reasons--when he alleged in October that Admiral Frank Kelso was culpable for a "failure of leadership" in the Tailhook mess. Defense Secretary Les Aspin was right--also for the wrong reasons--to reject Dalton's recommendation that the chief of naval operations be fired for his shortcomings. Kelso's main failure was not in allowing Tailhook to happen, as Dalton charged, but in allowing it--and the entire future of the Navy--to be spun out of his control.
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