New York Times: Revisiting the Military’s Tailhook Scandal

Michael Winerip reports for the New York Times on Protect Our Defenders Advocacy Committee Members Jenny McClendon, Paula Coughlin-Puopolo, and Brian Lewis:

On the Retro Report video, Navy Petty Officer Jenny McClendon tells an interviewer of the abuse she faced years after the supposed Tailhook reforms were adopted: “I presumed that I was going to join a group of people who were my comrades. When I got to the ship, it was a while before – was probably a couple of months before we went from harassment to – to the groping, and the groping eventually culminated in several physical assaults and a cou — — a few rapes.”

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