(Documentation is from the Department of Defense Inspector General report, February 1993)
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CHIEF OF
NAVAL AIR TRAINING (CNATRA)
NAVAL AIR STATION
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX
TRAINING SQUADRON
24(VT-24) TRAINING WING
NAVAL AIR STATION
BEEVILLE, TX
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| Hilton Suite Number: |
364 |
| Commanding Officer: |
RADM William P. McGowen, USN
(attended Tailhook '91)
CDR Austin G. Abercrombie, USN
(attended Tailhook '91)
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| Executive Officer: |
(attended Tailhook '91) |
| Contributing Squadrons: |
VT-24 and all other squadrons
and miscellaneous commands within the CNATRA
organizational structure |
| Squadron Members Attending: |
Approximately 40 CNATRA officers |
| Suite Financing: |
$5,000 surplus from CNATRA
hospitality suite at Tailhook '90
and individual assessments of
$35 from participating
officers
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| Hours of Operation: |
Thursday, 2:00 p.m.
to Friday, 2:00 a.m.;
Friday, 2:00p.m. to Saturday,
2:00 a.m.; Saturday, 2:00 p.m.
to Sunday, 2:00 a.m. |
| Type of Alcohol Served: |
Margaritas, beer, open bar |
| Total Cost of Alcohol: |
Estimated $5,000 to $7,000
(exact amount unavailable)
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| Total Cost of Suite Damage: |
Some carpet damage reported
(exact amount unavailable)
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By many accounts, the CNATRA has hosted
one of the most popular hospitality suites at the Tailhook conventions. In recent years, many aviators told us they made it a point to visit the CNATRA suite in the hope of meeting persons they knew from flight school either as instructors or fellow students. Many of those who went to Tailhook
'91 from the training commands were among the youngest officers at the convention and told us that was their first visit to Tailhook. No fewer than 400 people told us they visited the CNATRA suite at some point during
Tailhook '91.
At least 52 people stated that there were strippers in the CNATRA
suite at Tailhook '91. There was a ballwalking incident
in the CNATRA suite on Saturday evening.
A lieutenant junior grade admitted that he and four other
officers ballwalked in the suite on a dare.
A female Navy ensign stated she was assaulted on
Saturday night in the suite when a drunken man
placed his hands on her breasts.
There were two female cocktail waitresses serving drinks each
night in the CNATRA suite. Both
women wore black shorts and Tailhook '91 T-shirts
provided by the suite coordinators and worked strictly for
tips.
The waitresses described their experiences over the three
days as unpleasant, reporting that they were
continually pinched, grabbed and groped by the men in
the suite and that the men placed squadron
stickers on their breasts and buttocks even though the
women repeatedly told the man to stop. They
also said the men looked down their T-shirts and suggested
that they could make better tips if they cut
their T-shirts to be more revealing.
One waitress said the men grabbed her T-shirt, pulled it open,
and looked at her breasts. Both waitresses said they were
subjected to vulgar and lewd comments
from the men in the suite. One waitress said she was bitten
on the buttocks in the suite on Saturday
night. The other woman said she saw men ballwalking
in the suite on Saturday night. Both
waitresses agreed that the behavior of the men in
the suite got progressively more vulgar from
Thursday to Saturday. One said the men in the suite
went "crazy" during the Saturday night stripper
performance and they subsequently refused
to serve drinks while the stripper was
performing.
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