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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 ...
Kaprow later said that the crew's morale was the lowest he'd ever seen in his 20-year naval career. [5] The Churchill's gunnery officer said that Graf frequently spat at other officers and threw things at them, including ceramic coffee cups and binders. Ultimately, the entire crew broke out in cheers when she changed command in 2004.
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.
[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.
Amy N. Bauernschmidt is a United States Navy officer. She is the first woman to serve as the executive officer and then as the commanding officer of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. Bauernschmidt assumed command of USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) on 19 August 2021.
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.