sentences:  He also served seven tours in the Pentagon and was President of the Naval War College from 1985 to 1986.One of his greatest challenges as the academy's superintendent was to stanch the dropout rate for female midshipmen.He appointed a task force to examine the reasons for the high attrition rate in the 1980s, where he found that much of the problem was female recruits often lacked strong backgrounds in sciences or athletics, two staples of life at the academy.