AN OFFICER AND A CREEP?

A NAVY CAPTAIN ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT COULD LOSE MORE THAN JUST HIS CHANCE AT PROMOTION

THE HALLMARK SENTIMENTS SOUND more like the musings of a smitten schoolboy than the clipped commands generally issued by a top Navy SEAL commando. But, though hardly coercive, the words landed a Navy captain in a cramped Washington Navy-Yard courtroom last week to face a court-martial. It was the first time such a proceeding had been brought against an officer of his rank since World War II.

The case of Captain Everett Greene, charged with "unduly familiar personal relationships" with two female subordinates, is again forcing the Navy command to take a good hard look at its policy on sexual harassment....

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