I’M INNOCENT! Lt. Gen. Royal Moore, above,...
I’M INNOCENT! Lt. Gen. Royal Moore, above, the Marines’ Pacific commander, is red-faced again, but this time he says he’s innocent. Moore, reprimanded for falsifying a flight test when he ran the El Toro base, recently sent out a memo boosting the Tailhook Assn., a military support group, despite the Bush Administration’s shunning it for sexual misconduct at its last Las Vegas convention. It turns out Moore was only forwarding a Washington headquarters memo, sent by mistake and then rescinded. . . . “The general is upset as anyone about what went on in Las Vegas,” says an aide.
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