Wilson Falor "Bud" Flagg (October 25, 1938September 11, 2001) was a United States Navy Rear Admiral. On October 15, 1993, he was censured for failing to prevent the 1991 Tailhook conference scandal, effectively ending any chance for further career advancement.Lewis, Neil A. (October 16, 1993). "Tailhook Affair Brings Censure Of 3 Admirals". The New York Times."Tailhook admirals censured". The Times-News/Associated Press. October 16, 1993. p. 3A. Google News. Retrieved March 21, 2014.Serrano, Richard (October 16, 1993). "33 Top Officers Disciplined in Tailhook Case". Los Angeles Times. Flagg and his wife Darlene were murdered on board American Airlines Flight 77 during the September 11 attacks of 2001."Wilson Flagg, 62, A Retired Admiral". The New York Times. September 15, 2001.
Early life Wilson Falor Flagg was born October 25, 1938. While in high school, Flagg, known by the nickname "Bud", met his future wife, Darlene Ellen "Dee" Embree. They became sweethearts, and married after Flagg graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in June 1961.
Career Flagg attended flight school in Pensacola, Florida, and became a Navy pilot in 1962. He served on active duty from 1961 to 1967, including three tours as a fighter pilot in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. After leaving active duty, he continued flying the F-8 Crusader, logging more than 3,200 flight hours. He subsequently embarked upon dual careers as an American Airlines captain and an officer in the Naval Reserve.
In 1987 he became a rear admiral, and was posted at The Pentagon, where he was one of the top officers for the Naval Reserve. In 1993, two years after the 1991 Tailhook Association scandal, he was one of three top officials who received letters of censure for failing to stop extensive incidents of sexual harassment at the association's Las Vegas convention.
Flagg retired from the Navy in 1995 as a rear admiral and from American Airlines in 1998, although at the time of his death, he still had an office at the Pentagon, for instances in which the Pentagon contacted him for technical advice.
Personal life and death
The Flaggs lived in Mississippi, California, and Connecticut before settling in the early 1990s to Daybreak Farm, a Black Angus beef cattle farm in Millwood, Virginia. They also owned a home in Las Vegas, and Dee Flagg was active in Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in Winchester, Virginia, and the Greenway Garden Club in Clarke County. Both were members of the Blue Ridge Hunt. They had two sons, MarcSome sources, such as the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial , give the spelling as "Marc". and Michael.
During the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Flaggs and their friend, Barbara G. Edwards, were on board American Airlines Flight 77, heading to a family gathering in California. They were murdered when it crashed into the Pentagon.
At the National 9/11 Memorial, Flagg, his wife and Edwards are memorialized at the South Pool, on Panel S-70.Wilson F. Flagg . Memorial Guide: National 9/11 Memorial. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
Awards and honors His decorations included the Distinguished Service Medal, two Legion of Merits, the Meritorious Service Medal, five Air Medals and the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat V.
Naval Aviator Badge Navy Distinguished Service Medal Legion of Meritw/ " gold starMeritorious Service MedalAir Medalw/ strike/flight numeral 5Navy and Marine Commendation Medalw/ Combat "V" and " gold starNavy Unit CommendationNational Defense Service Medalw/ " bronze starArmed Forces Expeditionary MedalVietnam Service Medalw/ three " bronze starsArmed Forces Reserve Medalw/ silver hourglass deviceNavy and Marine Corps Overseas Service RibbonRepublic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit CitationRepublic of Vietnam Civil Actions Unit CitationVietnam Campaign Medal
References
External links
9/11 Pentagon Memorial Heroes RADM Wilson F. Flagg, USNR, Retired. at pentagonmemorial.org