What's The Big Deal?

The Navy finds ample evidence of sexual assaults -- but few culprits

( TALK ABOUT A GROUP OF MEN WHO JUST DON'T GET it. Last September at a convention of Navy and Marine aviators, an entertainment favored by scores of junior male officers involved lining up along the narrow corridors of the Las Vegas Hilton and groping at any woman who happened by. According to two Navy reports released last week, at least 14 women officers and 12 female civilians had their breasts, buttocks and other bodily parts grabbed by drunken male pilots. As appalling as the behavior itself was the reaction of the more than 1,500 officers and civilians questioned about the...

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