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Navy fires three for roles in Tailhook investigation
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Acting Navy Secretary Sean O'Keefe stripped three admirals of their jobs yesterday for failing to investigate aggressively the Tailhook sex abuse scandal and said that those who harassed women would be driven from their ranks.
In an appearance before reporters, O'Keece vowed to get to the bottom of the affair, which has haunted the Navy for more than a year.
But O'Keefe defended his top aide, Undersecretary Dan Howard, against criticism contained in a report issued yesterday by the Pentagon's inspector general.
The report faulted the three admirals and Howard for failing to investigate aggressively the alleged abuse of more than two dozen women at a Las Vegas aviators' convention in 1991 and said a removal from office should be considered.
At his news conference, the secretary announced:
O'Keefe said Howard had been given an impossible task and had become a referee in a botched investigation. Howard performed as well as possible, and the failure was not his but that of the officials and officers reporting to him, O'Keefe said.
A second report by the inspector general dealing with possible criminal charges stemming from the incident is due out in December.
The report said lurid sexual behavior had taken place at the annual convention at least as far back as 1985, and naval leadership had done nothing to stop it.
Rear Adm. Duvall Williams, the one-star commander of the Naval Investigative Service, which handles criminal inquiries, will be replaced
with a senior civilian.
Rear Adm. John Gordon, the Navy's two-star judge advocate general and its chief legal officer, will be replaced.
Rear Adm. George Washington Davis, the navy's inspector general, will be reassigned after the Senate confirms his replacement.
The inspector general's report asked O'Keefe to consider appropriate disciplinary action for Gordon and Williams. The secretary said he had not yet made any such decisions.
A Navy source who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the two had been put on terminal leave. That means they may be permitted to retire in their current grade. Because all admirals were confirmed by the Senate, however, the lawmakers could have a say in the final disposition of the two admirals.
Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., and a member of the House armed Services Committee, called the report excellent.
None of the three responded immediately to requests for comment.
She said that the military's attitude toward women was going to change a little more after seeing three admirals be dealt with in such a manner.
Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the action taken by O'Keefe was a small step in repairing the damage done to the Navy's image. "They still have a long way to go," he said.
In a series of steps taken to improve future Navy investigations, O'Keefe said the inspector general's post would be upgraded from a two-star to a three-star admiral's position so that its occupant would be closer to retirement and less fearful of angering
superior officers.
Williams repeatedly attempted to halt the investigation, the report said, while Gordon was cited for using poor professional judgment.
The report quoted Williams as saying that men simply did not want women in the military and that he appeared to share that view himself.
Williams also was cited for his attitude toward women in the service, an opinion that should have raised concerns about his ability to conduct a full and proper investigation, the report said.
The inspector general said that Williams, in a screaming match with a senior female Navy civilian, made comments to the effect that a lot of female Navy pilots were go-dancers, toilless dancers or hookers.
Williams began to argue for a halt to the investigation in December 1991 and said his office did not have "a fart's chance in a whirlwind" of getting to the bottom of it all, the report said.
At the convention, women were pushed through a gauntlet of Navy and Marine Corps officers in a hotel hallway. The men grabbed at the women's breasts and crotes; some women were disrobed.
The Navy's investigation of the incident resulted in only two aviators being identified as primary suspects.
As the scandal grew, it claimed the job of Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III, who resigned after taking responsibility for a failure of leadership that had allowed the incident to occur.
The report, however, questioned whether Garrett told the truth about whether he had visited hotel suites where some of the sexual misconduct occurred.
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