Navy Woman Tells of McKinney Advances

The Army’s senior enlisted man promised to show a young Navy enlisted woman “passion like I’d never known” and pursued her after she turned him down, she testified at Ft. Belvoir. Petty Officer 1st Class Johnna Vinson said at the sexual-misconduct court-martial of Sgt. Maj. Gene C. McKinney that he took her aside at a 1996 convention in Denver, told her “I like what I see,” and invited her to his room. Vinson, the only woman outside the Army among McKinney’s six accusers, made the same accusations at a preliminary hearing last summer. She was the fifth of his accusers to testify at the court-martial.