WASHINGTON – The Navy is investigating allegations of misconduct at last week’s convention of the Tailhook Association, the private naval aviators’ organization whose 1991 annual meeting dissolved ...

SPARKS, Nev. — At 12: 30 Sunday morning, in the hotel that is playing host to this year’s Tailhook convention, the hallways were stone silent. A handful of pilots drank beer in a suite with the door ...

The Pentagon inspector general investigating the assault of dozens of women at a 1991 naval aviators convention in Las Vegas has compiled evidence that may lead to the courts-martial of more than a ...

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 ...

A Navy officer pleaded not guilty Tuesday to all charges related to his alleged sexual misconduct at the 1991 Tailhook convention in Las Vegas. In a crisp, matter-of-fact hearing that lasted barely 20 ...

correctionAn earlier version of the article incorrectly defined the term “tailhook.” It is the hook on an airplane that catches a cable while landing on an aircraft carrier, not the cable itself. This ...

Another Navy officer has fallen off the Tailhook court-martial docket. Lt. Rolando A. Diaz, 35, decided Friday to accept nonjudicial punishment on a charge of shaving a woman’s pubic hair at the 1991 ...

A Navy lieutenant blasted the Pentagon’s Tailhook investigators as ”Nazis” and said Thursday that charges he fondled and assaulted women at a convention of naval aviators were the result of a ...

The report begins with a table of contents unmatched in the annals of military manuals. There is a section on Indecent Assaults. Another on Indecent Exposure. A third labeled Other Improper Conduct.

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” ...