Navy video star and ships captain the focus of Navy investigation…
The Navy has ordered an investigation into a series of raunchy YouTube videos laced with profanity and gay-bashing. Under fire is Capt. Owen Honors of the USS Enterprise.
The videos were produced aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in 2006-2007 for the entertainment of the crew as a “morale booster” and only recently were released to a larger audience and subsequently written about in The Virginian-Pilot on New Year’s Day.
The films were shown once a week on closed-circuit shipwide television. In the introduction Honors says: “This evening, all of you bleeding hearts… why don’t you just go ahead and hug yourself for the next 20 minutes or so, because there’s a really good chance you’re gonna be offended.”
At the time the films were produced, Honors was second-in-command. He recently took charge of the carrier, one of the most sought after assignments in the U.S. Navy. There are only eleven aircraft carriers in the fleet.
The Navy released this statement: “The videos created onboard USS Enterprise are clearly inappropriate. They were not acceptable then and are not acceptable in today’s Navy. The Navy does not endorse or condone these kinds of actions.”
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