For decades, the Tailhook Association was the top professional association for naval and Marine Corps aviators. Its annual Naval Aviation Symposium became one of the biggest and most important ...

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” ...

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 ...

The Navy helicopter pilot who smashed the cone of silence around the 1991 Tailhook convention at the Las Vegas Hilton and changed the way the military handled women's claims of sexual abuse is now a ...

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” ...

On Sept. 7, 1991, life stopped imitating art for Marie Weston and Lisa Reagan. Until then, the two Californians bought the "Top Gun" image of naval aviators: hard-drinking, maybe, but dashing and ...

Navy Tailhookers recently rendezvoused in Reno for their 60th annual meeting. But 25 years ago in Las Vegas, a controversial Tailhook "celebration" dramatically impacted the careers and reputations of ...

At least 11 witnesses say they can place Adm. Frank B. Kelso in the vicinity of sexual misconduct at the 1991 Tailhook convention, says a lawyer defending another officer against misconduct charges.

A military judge dismissed all remaining charges in the Navy’s Tailhook investigation Tuesday after finding that the Navy’s top officer unlawfully influenced the initial investigation and lied about ...

Tailhookers will soon rendezvous in Reno, Nevada, for the 60th annual meeting of the nonprofit fraternal organization for naval aviators. It was 25 years ago, in Las Vegas, that another Tailhook ...

It’s too bad the U.S. Navy, which has a well-deserved reputation as an excellent fighting force, has been unable to handle the 1991 Tailhook scandal as adroitly as it handles threats to America’s ...

Maybe they ought to teach this as a case study at the Naval Academy or at Officer Candidate Schools. It could be a lesson in the value of closing ranks, the importance of military bonding, or the ...