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[3] [4] [5] She was the first woman to be chief of naval operations, and the first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. [4] Before this she most recently served as the 42nd vice chief of naval operations from September 2022 to November 2023 [6] and as acting chief of naval operations (CNO) from August to November 2023. [7] [8]
Coughlin was one of the first female attendees who reported being indecently assaulted by male attendees. Coughlin testified she feared being gang-raped when she was forced to "run the gauntlet". [4] She had reported the incident to senior officers, but after a lack of progress due to "closing ranks and obfuscation," she went public in June ...
The Tailhook scandal was a military scandal in which United States (U.S.) Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aviation officers were alleged to have sexually assaulted up to 83 women and seven men, or otherwise engaged in "improper and indecent" conduct at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Documents obtained by The Washington Post via Freedom of Information Act Requests (FOIAs) revealed that after al-Qaeda committed the October 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole and the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Navy's Economic Crimes unit was reduced from a staff of 140 to only nine persons, most having been reassigned to focus on terrorism.
She was the first woman to command a cruiser in the history of the U.S. Navy. Earlier, she had been among the first women in the U.S. Navy to command a destroyer when she served as skipper of the guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill. Her personal decorations include the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star, among others. [1]
[6] Fast was the most senior military intelligence officer serving in Iraq during the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal. Arocho-Burkart was then hired as a civilian interrogation instructor at Fort Huachuca. Following the publication of her activities in Guantanamo, Arocho-Burkart was fired from her instructor job at Fort Huachuca.
On July 1, 2014, Howard was appointed Vice Chief of Naval Operations, the second highest-ranking officer in the Navy. Upon her swearing in, Howard became the highest-ranking woman (until the swearing in of Lisa Franchetti ) and first female four-star admiral in United States Naval history.
Ballard, 419 U.S. 498 (1975), was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld a federal statute granting female Naval officers four more years of commissioned service before mandatory discharge than male Naval officers. [1] [2] A group of naval officers who were discharged prior to their tenth year of commissioned service, as a result of not ...