A photo from the Department of Defense inspector general's Tailhook '91 investigation report shows an unidentified Navy aviation officer wearing a T-shirt with the phrase "Women are Property" in the ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It's been a year since drunken naval aviators at the Tailhook convention assaulted 26 women in a "gantlet" at the Las ...

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 ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. They may have been officers, but they certainly weren't gentlemen. Navy ...

Even the conventional variant of the Joint Strike Fighter must be prepared to use the tailhook to face directional control issues or braking failures. Tailhook landings by land-based aircraft are used ...

The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has begun testing a new carrier arresting hook for the Navy’s version of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter at Naval Air Station Patuxent ...