When probing any situation involving the military, it pays to remember the bureaucracy. The Pentagon makes Congress sound like an assembly of solipsists. The case of First Lieutenant Kelly Flinn is very much in point. She is the lady whose plight was publicized by 60 Minutes, where Morley Safer waxed wroth over the prospect that Lt. Flinn would be court-martialed.
What is distinctive about Lt. Flinn is that she is a female B-52 bomber pilot, the only such in the Air Force. Moreover, she has been something of a pinup figure because she is blonde and pretty and articulate. Court-martial Kelly? For what? Well, for adultery and for lying about it.
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