Everett L. Greene had always been a black star in a white world. In his largely white high school in Cincinnati, he was voted most likely to succeed. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1970, he became the first black officer in the navy SEALs, the elite commando unit, and then rose to captain. Slated for promotion to flag rank (only five of the navy's 266 admirals are African-Americans), Greene was being groomed to become the commander of all navy SEALs. Last week, however, Greene became the highest-ranking naval officer since World War II to face a court-martial. The charge: that while serving as the chief of a unit charged with fighting sexual harassment in the wake of the 1991 Tailhook scandal, Greene sexually harassed female subordinates. The case is a nightmare for Greene, 47, who is married with three children and whom his colleagues regarded as a sober family man. And it is a twisted tale of sexual and racial politics in a service that seems to be having an especially difficult time integrating blacks and women into its officer corps.
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机译：埃弗里特·格林（Everett L. Greene）一直是白人世界中的黑星。在辛辛那提（Cincinnati）基本上是白人的高中，他被选为最有可能获得成功的人。 1970年从海军学院毕业后，他成为精锐突击队海军海豹突击队的第一位黑人军官，然后升为上尉。计划晋升为船长（海军266名海军上将中只有5名是非裔美国人），格林被修饰为所有海豹突击队的司令官。然而，上周，格林成为第二次世界大战以来最高级别的海军军官，要面对军事法庭的审判。指控：在担任1991年尾钩丑闻后负责打击性骚扰部门的负责人时，格林对女性下属进行了性骚扰。该案对于现年47岁的格林来说是一场噩梦，他已婚，育有三个孩子，他的同事们将其视为清醒的家中之人。在一个服务机构中，这是一个关于性与种族政治的扭曲故事，似乎在将黑人和妇女纳入其官兵中时特别困难。
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