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I'm sure you passed right by dh at some point, as he, too, was at Tailhook '91.

Everything that you have said in this thread, is almost verbatim, what dh swears occurred. So many good, decent men took the fall for that @(#^%@(!!!

As for the mass exodus during the Clintoon regime, I can attest to that, as well. We decided the community was simply becoming too unsafe for dh to have fun anymore, so we got out in '98. After Bush was elected, morale lifted through the roof, and yes...*many* of our fellow squadronmates (especially the furloughed ones) are "back in."

And the real story of Tailhook '91 never got told, except at the bars and in the ready rooms.

You are right -- one failed female aviator ruined the careers of many men far better than she ever would or could be, either as a human being, a Naval Officer or a Naval Aviator. She caused, by aiding and abetting the PC crowd and allowing them to virtually take the Navy over, roughly 10 years of extreme privation and hardship for a lot of very good men and women who were truly concerned about the future of Naval Aviation. I don't think we are out of the PC woods just yet, but I can sense that things are better.

And, she took the money and ran -- $6 mil, or thereabouts, when it was all said and done! What does Rush say? "Follow the money?"

Thank dh for his service, and thank you for yours. Being the wife of a Naval Aviator is more difficult than being the Naval Aviator. Just ask my first ex-wife! She'll tell you all about it!

One gathers that y'all are now flying the FRiendly skies FRom your WPB domicile?