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Mood at Tailhook '93 serious
Navy servicemen resent coverage of 1991 convention
The Associated Press
And the silver-haired men who were there a little nervous and a lot resentful as they gathered on Friday for the first Tailhook convention in two years.
SAN DIEGO — The young men and the hospitality suites were missing this time.
The women who said they were harassed or attacked at the 1991 convention.
They were resentful of:
The media, which they accuse of sensationalizing the controversial 1991 convention:
The Navy, for cutting ties with their group after that convention caused a national sex scandal:
He wasn't there in 1991, Stoll said, when women said they had been forced past a gantlet of men who fondled them and pulled off their clothes, where shaving of legs and pubic hair was reported to have taken place in hospitality suites and where people were said to have flashed their private parts.
"It's just unfair," said Joe Brantus, a retired captain who spent 15 years flying fighter jets before leaving the Navy in 1982.
"The people in this room have done more for our country than all the people in the media combined," Brantus said. "Yet somehow, we've become the villains."
Peter Stoll, who flew almost 500 missions in Vietnam, shook his head at the idea that anyone would view the group he loves as a bunch of drunken, lecherous aviators.
Like quite a few at this year's convention, Stoll doesn't believe any women were mistreated during the 1991 meeting in Las Vegas, although a Pentagon inspector general's report determined that 83 women had been assaulted or sexually harassed.
"I'll tell you, in all the years I've attended Tailhook, I've never seen a woman assaulted," Stoll said. "The people I know would have leapt to her aid if they'd seen something like that."
"Yes, Tailhook had traditionally had a party atmosphere," Stoll said. "But nobody got hurt."
More than 40 Navy and Marine officers, including three admirals, have been disciplined, and 11 others await courts-martial or other inquiries as a result of the 1991 convention.
Corporate sponsorship is down, and only about 700 people, mostly retired aviators, are attending this year, compared with 7,000 active-duty and retired flyers who took part in 1991.
Tailhook's leaders have tried to make this year's meeting a sober, serious-minded affair.
Military's appeal of ruling on gay ban denied
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court refused to overrule a judge's order to allow gays in the military, rejecting a request for an emergency stay by the Clinton administration.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday denied the Defense Department's request to either suspend or overrule the Sept. 30 decision by U.S. District Judge Terry Hatter Jr. of Los Angeles. Hatter ruled that the military's ban on gays was unconstitutional.
"We can't stay in this limbo," Gore-lick said.
Jamie Gorelick, general counsel for the department, had said the Pentagon would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if it encountered any delay in the appeals court.
In the meantime, the department suspended its ban on gays serving in
the military while it pursues the case.
The case involves a gay sailor, Petty Officer Keith Meinhold, who filed a lawsuit challenging the military's ban
was challenging the military staff. Meinhold, a sonar instructor at Moffett Field Naval Air Station near San Francisco, was discharged in August 1992 after disclosing on national television that he was gay. He was ordered reinstated by Hatter.
The appeals court's ruling did not comment on the merits of the case. But John McGuire, Meinhold's lawyer, said the order demonstrated confidence by the court in Hatter's finding.
The same three-judge panel was scheduled to hear the Clinton administration's appeal of Hatter's ruling in December.
The Pentagon delayed implementation of President Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy on Oct. 1 while it awaited congressional action on the issue and dealt with the
Clinton's policy ends the practice of questioning recruits or service members about sexual orientation but says the military will discharge members "who engage in homosexual conduct, which is defined as a homosexual act, a statement that the member is homosexual or bisexual, or a marriage or attempted marriage to someone of the same gender."
McGuire said that by taking that position, the department merely was acknowledging its obligation to follow Hatter's nationwide injunction.
Hatter's ruling prohibits the military from denying enlistment or promotion or changing enlistment status, duty assignment or duty location solely because of sexual orientation.
The government appealed the ruling, arguing that Hatter had exceeded the scope of the case before him because the order would prevent implementation of Clinton's policy.