I can't remember the detail, but wasn't Tailhook an exception to the rule above?
This refers to Tailhook '91.
Ultimately the careers of fourteen admirals and almost 300 naval aviators were scuttled or damaged by Tailhook. For example Secretary of the Navy H. Lawrence Garrett III and CNO Admiral Frank Kelso were both at Tailhook '91. Garrett ultimately resigned and Kelso retired early two years after the convention.
Happily that is now all in the past and Tailhook continues.
This refers.
See you in the Nugget on Sep 9th !!
Oggin