What it takes to be in the tailhook club.

It is the 15 th anniversary of “The Year of the Woman,” as 1992 was billed. Spurred, in part, by their fury over how the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee treated Anita Hill during her testimony ...

The 1991 Tailhook aviation convention, where naval aviators fresh from Operation Desert Storm grabbed women’s private parts during a drunken late-night “gauntlet” game, forced a sea change in flyboy ...

Navy Tailhookers will soon rendezvous in Reno for their 60th annual meeting. But it was 25 years ago in Las Vegas when a very controversial Tailhook took place. That September 1991 “celebration” ...

One day soon, the official report on Tailhook will pop loose from an embattled Pentagon. When it does, it will provoke another round of accusation, speculation, vilification and consternation ...

The trembling-lipped, bug-eyed feminist hysteria about the Tailhook incident – a rowdy party of aviators at a convention nearly two years ago – has somewhat subsided now that a new Defense Department ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On October 29, 1991, Senator John McCain went to the floor of the US Senate. The ...

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WASHINGTON — Remember “Tailhook,” the organization of carrier pilots, military contractors and others whose convention antics, including allegations of sexual assault and further outrageous behavior, ...

Four California women have filed lawsuits against the Tailhook Association of Naval aviators and the Las Vegas Hilton, claiming they were sexually accosted during two conventions. The lawsuits were ...

It's been a year since drunken naval aviators at the Tailhook convention assaulted 26 women in a "gantlet" at the Las Vegas Hilton, and no officer has been charged. No wonder. Last week a Pentagon ...

No Navy flier has felt Tailhook’s sting more deeply than Robert E. Stumpf. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for aerial heroism during the Persian Gulf War and once commander of the Navy’s elite ...