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Orlando Sentinel
April 15, 2018
There should be statues and monuments [to service women] on every base, the National Mall in Washington, everywhere.” She served in the Navy as the Tailhook sex scandal emerged and exposed an indifference to misogynistic behavior in military branches that included harassment and sexual assault.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
April 15, 2018
San Diego population reaches 1,110,549. Roseanne Barr mangles “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a Padres game. Iraq invades Kuwait. 1991 Soviet Union breaks up. U.S. joins the Persian Gulf War. The Union reports abuses at the Las Vegas Tailhook convention, including a gantlet in which women wereÃâà...
AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
April 14, 2018
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IEEE Spectrum
April 2, 2018
Those processes have been upgraded: the new launcher is much faster, and the deployable tailhook has been replaced with a tiny metal hook on the back of the drone's tail boom. This means that the landing target the drones have to hit went from about a meter in size to just one centimeter, but it reducesÃâà...
The Intercept
March 26, 2018
The issue catapulted to public awareness with the 1991 Tailhook scandal, in which 83 women and seven men were assaulted during an annual Navy conference in Las Vegas. “In the decades since Tailhook, more high-profile incidents have come to light, steadily revealing the cultural and systemicÃâà...
Ridgecrest Daily Independent
March 16, 2018
Photo from Tailhook Association VX-9′s Lt. Sean Noronha, second from the left, and Lt. Jason Hirzel, third from the left, are awarded Air Medals by Vice Adm. DeWolfe Miller III (right) for their heroic effort to bring an EA-18G Growler back after the catastrophic failure of the aircraft's environmental controlÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
March 14, 2018
Lt. Sean Noronha, second from the left, and Jason Hirzel, third from the left, are awarded Air Medals for their heroic effort to bring an EA-18G Growler back after the catastrophic failure of the aircraft's environmental control system. (Facebook, Tailhook Association). WASHINGTON — The two-man aircrewÃâà...
Business Insider
March 13, 2018
SNAs selected for tailhook aircraft report to NAS Kingsville, Texas or NAS Meridian, Mississippi to start the advanced strike pipeline, which takes about 23 weeks. The biggest difference between the USAF and USN training pipelines - what many would say is the biggest difference between the servicesÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 7, 2018
We were late in standing up our depots to actually turn and fix those parts." All three services use a version of the F-35. The Air Force has the standard model, while the Navy has a variant with a tailhook to land on aircraft carriers, and the Marines have a short take-off and vertical landing version for use onÃâà...
WHYY
March 5, 2018
After a two-hour flight from Manila, Philippines, the tailhook of the C-2 Greyhound cargo plane snagged a cable on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson and went from about 100 miles an hour to zero in a couple of seconds. The Carl Vinson is the flagship of the first carrier strike group of the U.S. Navy's 3rd FleetÃâà...
Ventura County Star
February 23, 2018
The pilot needed to land on the aircraft carrier's flight deck, a tiny postage stamp in the middle of the ocean, and additionally had to snag the tailhook on the arresting wire to keep from skidding off. Moreover, the pilot would have only one try. If he came in at the wrong angle, the wrong incline, the wrongÃâà...
Department of Defense
February 16, 2018
“The fire department takes the lead on the whole emergency, making sure the personnel are OK,” said Air Force Staff Sgt. Spencer Thresh, 48th CES barrier maintenance noncommissioned officer in charge. “They disconnect the cable from the tailhook, and we do the maintenance to ensure the system willÃâà...
Task & Purpose
February 7, 2018
“The modern era of sexual assault and sexual harassment awareness in the military started with Tailhook,” said Col. Don Christensen, referring to the 1991 scandal that erupted after more than 100 Navy and Marine Corps officers allegedly sexually assaulted dozens of women and men at a conference inÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 6, 2017
Just two months into my plebe year at the Naval Academy, dozens of women and a few men were sexually assaulted and harassed by dozens of their fellow Navy and Marine Corps officers at the Tailhook convention in Las Vegas. The ensuing investigation revealed that senior Navy leaders were presentÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
September 2, 2016
But it was 25 years ago in Las Vegas when a very controversial Tailhook took place. That September 1991 “celebration” dramatically impacted the careers and reputations of scores of officers and set the stage for the gender equality struggle that remains in today's headlines. I was there. I am a NavyÃâà...
New York Times
May 13, 2013
In 1992, a young Navy lieutenant named Paula Coughlin said she had been sexually assaulted at the 35th Annual Tailhook Symposium in Las Vegas. Her complaints revealed an ugly side to the annual convention for “Top Gun” aviators: 83 women and 7 men were later found to have been assaultedÃâà...
New York Times
May 13, 2013
This week's developments make the Retro Report video documentary on the Tailhook scandal particularly timely for providing a historical context to a problem that will not go away. On the Retro Report video, Navy Petty Officer Jenny McClendon tells an interviewer of the abuse she faced years after theÃâà...
