As the country was amid an energy crisis, in September 1974, the U.S. Navy used 64 aircraft to fly 1,334 officers to the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas for a reunion of the private Tailhook Association.
The flights cost more than $191,000 in taxpayer funds — $1.1 million in 2022 dollars — and “squandered 347,000 gallons of fuel in the midst of the most severe energy crisis the nation has ever faced,” Sen. William Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin, said.
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