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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Insisting it takes the problem seriously, the military has put in place numerous policies and programs to reduce the assaults, notably since the 1991 Tailhook scandal in which Navy pilots were accused of sexually abusing female officers at a Las Vegas convention.

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