Accused Navy pilot Gregory McWherter resigns as Tailhook Association president
The Washington Post reports:
For more than two decades, the Navy has labored to overcome and bury memories of perhaps the worst scandal in its history: the 1991 Tailhook convention, when crowds of drunken aviators sexually battered scores of women during a frenzied Las Vegas party.
As a result, the Navy brass is reeling over this week’s disclosure that one of its most prominent pilots is under investigation for allegedly fostering a culture of sexual harassment, hazing and lewd behavior.
The pilot, Capt. Gregory McWherter, is the former commander and public face of the Blue Angels, the Navy’s elite flight squadron. Less well known is the fact that until Friday, he also was president of the Tailhook Association, a nonprofit aviator fraternity that despite its past disgrace still draws thousands to its annual convention.
