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Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-11 10:21 AM
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Lewd, gay-bashing videos filmed and presented to the crew aboard USS Enterprise
US Navy to investigate lewd videos

NORFOLK, Virginia: The Navy said Sunday it will investigate "clearly inappropriate" videos broadcast to the crew of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in which a top officer of the ship used gay slurs, mimicked masturbation and opened the shower curtain on women pretending to bathe together.

The star of the videos, made in 2006 and 2007, is a former Top Gun pilot who now commands the same ship, the Norfolk-based USS Enterprise, which was deployed in the Middle East at the time and is weeks from deploying again...

It's not immediately known why the videos are surfacing now. The Virginian-Pilot quoted anonymous crew members who said they raised concerns aboard the ship about the videos when they aired, but they were brushed off...

A primary figure in the films, Capt Owen Honors, said:

"Over the years I've gotten several complaints about inappropriate material during these videos, never to me personally but, gutlessly, through other channels," he says.

http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/1/3/business/20110103121854&sec=business

According to the BBC

"In another scene, male sailors dressed in drag mimic masturbation. Other clips in the video show a man in drag and a mock rectal examination."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12108151
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-11 10:31 AM
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1. What a jerk-off (pun intended).
And this guy is the captain of an aircraft carrier? Can you say "career over?"
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Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-11 10:41 AM
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2. It looks like he's getting away with it...
Later in the story it says that the commanding officer of the Enterprise when the videos were made was promoted to the rank of the rear admiral.
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-11 10:55 AM
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3. Additional discussion at these earlier threads ->
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Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-11 02:51 PM
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4. thanks for the aditional information
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