Editing Wilson Flagg (section)

==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 [[United States Navy Reserve|Naval Reserve]].<ref name=WashingtonPost>{{cite web|author=Bernstein, Adam |date=September 2001|url=http://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/wilson-f-flagg/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322092721/http://projects.washingtonpost.com/911victims/wilson-f-flagg/ |archive-date=March 22, 2014 |title=Wilson F. Flagg|series=Sacred Ground: Remembering the Victims|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|accessdate=March 21, 2014}}</ref>

His decorations included the [[Navy Distinguished Service Medal|Distinguished Service Medal]], the [[Meritorious Service Medal (United States)|Meritorious Service Medal]], the [[Air Medal]] and the [[Commendation Medal#Navy & Marine Corps, and Coast Guard|Navy Commendation Medal with Combat V]].<ref name=WashingtonPost/>

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.<ref name=LATimes2001/> 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.<ref name=NYTimes1993/><ref name=TimesNews/><ref name=LATimes1993/><ref name=LATimes2001/>

Flagg retired from the Navy in 1995 as a rear admiral and from American Airlines in 1998,<ref name=WashingtonPost/> 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.<ref name=NYTimes2001/>