The military was rocked in the early 1990s by the Tailhook scandal.
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As Lawrence Korb of the Brookings Institution notes, the civilian secretaries of the armed forces rarely make headlines unless a Tailhook, Aberdeen or Kelly Flinn case lands on their desk.
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The effort is uneven, but at least the sexual shenanigans of the navy's 1991 Tailhook convention are unlikely to be repeated (they led to several high-level resignations, including the navy secretary's).