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Navy opens investigation into raunchy videos

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Washington (CNN) -- The Navy has opened an investigation into how a series of raunchy videos, full of sexual innuendo and anti-gay remarks, were produced and shown to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise while on deployment supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Navy opens investigation into raunchy videos - CNN.com

I think this is the video Yes it is NSFW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WopAHvbg9LU

some people need to get a life. I didn't see nothing that you wouldn't see on a college campus / dorm rooms
 
I don't see how this would hurt the crew. Besides the anti-gay remarks, it looks like it would build moral and respect for the captain.
 
I read this on military.com. I find it highly inappropriate for an XO to be making such videos. It is one thing to be showing such things or something like it, quite another to actually make them as a commanding officer or second in command. And then to tell people that are objecting to them, too bad or something like it. Not becoming of an officer.

I doubt this guy will be in command of the Enterprise long, if this story is true.
 
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Is this for real? These are actual serving naval line officers?

If so, I thank God I didn't join the Navy. These clowns are a ****ing joke. They should be cashiered from the service.
 
I didn't really see any anti-gay stuff in there. Just jokes and a poorly made video. This shouldn't be taken too seriously.
 
I can't begin to say how many levels of inappropriate that video is. Your tax dollars at work, people.
 
I didn't really see any anti-gay stuff in there. Just jokes and a poorly made video. This shouldn't be taken too seriously.

The video may not be taken seriously, but a unit's leaders are to be taken very seriously. These unit leaders can't be taken seriously.
 
There was at least one scene in that video that could get that XO/CO into trouble, even without any of the profanity or sexual innuendo at all.

The profanity wasn't really bad, except that it was pointed out.

The problem I see mainly, is how can a chain of command expect their crew to follow rules about sexual harassment (making inappropriate sexual innuendo and/or talking about things of a sexual nature) when they don't follow those rules? My berthing got "spoken to" about sexual harassment just for being "too close" to each other and putting up a swimsuit calendar in our lounge. This was so much worse than that. And it was anywhere on the ship with a TV.
 
I'm starting to wonder why anyone in the Navy would actually be concerned about a repeal of DADT.
 
I can't begin to say how many levels of inappropriate that video is. Your tax dollars at work, people.

Well it's not like they took photos of their selves with someone else's uterus or something and then posted it on Facebook.
 
Erm...maybe it's me not being in the military but I dont really see a reason to flip ****. No, it isnt professional and probably not something they should be doing, but does it really warrant such a heavy response?
 
Navy opens investigation into raunchy videos - CNN.com

I think this is the video Yes it is NSFW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WopAHvbg9LU

some people need to get a life. I didn't see nothing that you wouldn't see on a college campus / dorm rooms

This man is an officer who is responsible for being second in command of 3,000 personnel (and the Navy takes that bit about being an officer seriously). This is NOT how Navy officers behave....especially on film.

This video is cute:



But I'm pretty sure that the personnel involved were disciplined, even so.

This guy used NAVY EQUIPMENT to make crude, stupid jokes. He's a moron who shouldn't be in charge of a multi-billion dollar ship with a nuclear reactor.
 
I read this on military.com. I find it highly inappropriate for an XO to be making such videos. It is one thing to be showing such things or something like it, quite another to actually make them as a commanding officer or second in command. And then to tell people that are objecting to them, too bad or something like it. Not becoming of an officer.

I doubt this guy will be in command of the Enterprise long, if this story is true.

That's the answer, isn't it? "Conduct unbecoming....."

It's not that bad, but it's totally unprofessional for someone in a leadership position to put together a video like this -- and I guess it's one of many. It's one thing for an XO or a Captain or an Admiral to ignore something the guys put together. (Wink-wink-nod-nod) It's quite another to be the guy puttin' it together.

And now he's the Captain. Not for long, I'm guessing.
 
This is the same Navy who used to have the line-crossing ceremony's right? With the shellbacks and pollywogs, with King Neptune holding court --- so, some swearing on a video doesn't seem too bad in comparison. I know a buddy of mine went over the equator in the late 80's and it was still quite a harrowing experience back then. Not sure if that was ever filmed or not.
 
This is the same Navy who used to have the line-crossing ceremony's right? With the shellbacks and pollywogs, with King Neptune holding court --- so, some swearing on a video doesn't seem too bad in comparison. I know a buddy of mine went over the equator in the late 80's and it was still quite a harrowing experience back then. Not sure if that was ever filmed or not.

I've been through a linecrossing ceremony (I am officially a Golden Shellback because we crossed the intersection of the Equator and IDL). And I have done the ceremony as both a wog and a shellback. It is fun, mostly (although, getting sprayed with a firehose while lying on your back on an aircraft elevator going up to the flightdeck feels like your drowning and I don't think the JO that I kneed in the groin (accidentally) found it very fun after that).

This was just unbecoming of an officer, especially an officer in command, to make. If it had just been a crewmember that was allowed to make and/or show these videos, it really wouldn't be much of an issue, even if it were a chief or something. They probably would just get talked to, maybe an NJP. Officers at held at a higher standard than enlisted though. That is why it is a big deal.

Plus, there was a scene at the end that few realize could get him in trouble just for that scene that lasted probably less than a second and had nothing offensive at all in it. No one is supposed to be playing in those yellow suits, especially in the hanger bay. That is a big no-no. And if he set it up or allowed it to happen, he was wrong. And he has the training to know that it is wrong as an XO.
 
I think it's about image. A LOT of people are having a problem with that these days. They expect the higher-ups to be more "stoic" in their presentation. They want to see McCarthur posing, deep in thought, with a pipe in his mouth. They want Churchill to have one hand beneath his lapel. They cringe when Obama bounces up the steps and takes the podium like some motivational speaker.

Other than that, I think it's much adoo over nothing.

I'm a shellback too. You guys would really be surprised at some of the ways we found humor in the fleet. And, frankly, I could care less if people liked it or not.
 
I'll probably take heat, but I watched it twice now, and really don't see anything wrong with it....The XO is responsible for moral is he not? So I saw it as an attempt to bring humor to movie night...Much ado about nothing in my humble opinion.


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This is the same Navy who used to have the line-crossing ceremony's right? With the shellbacks and pollywogs, with King Neptune holding court --- so, some swearing on a video doesn't seem too bad in comparison. I know a buddy of mine went over the equator in the late 80's and it was still quite a harrowing experience back then. Not sure if that was ever filmed or not.

My brother was on a sub for close to 10 years, and tells the most fantastic stories about their exploits.

Even so, he wasn't retarded enough to get himself filmed while doing those things.

How stupid do you have to be to intentionally film yourself crossing these sorts of professional lines? Guy's a maroon.
 
My brother was on a sub for close to 10 years, and tells the most fantastic stories about their exploits.

Even so, he wasn't retarded enough to get himself filmed while doing those things.

How stupid do you have to be to intentionally film yourself crossing these sorts of professional lines? Guy's a maroon.

and there's the rub. never, ever, ever, provide video/photographic evidence that some crybaby limpwrist can use against you. I have partaken in all kinds of unsavory and humorous activities, both as an enlisted joe and as an officer. you just don't provide proof. eye witnesses can always be bribed, intimidated or called a liar. :lamo
 
and there's the rub. never, ever, ever, provide video/photographic evidence that some crybaby limpwrist can use against you. I have partaken in all kinds of unsavory and humorous activities, both as an enlisted joe and as an officer. you just don't provide proof. eye witnesses can always be bribed, intimidated or called a liar. :lamo

Exactly what I'm saying. I am not a crybaby limpwrist and i"ve participated in activities/games that would make the standard issue feminazi fall down in a dead faint. Providing youtube evidence against yourself is an idiotic mistake.

p.s. I'm so glad all those naked pictures of me were taken when I was in college, BEFORE they could be disseminated widely on 4chan.
 
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I watched the video and was entirely unoffended. There was nothing there that I see worth making any kind of a big deal over. It's a cruise, 6+ months at sea. You do **** like this. They are sailors, they say the word **** alot. I thought the fact the XO basically advertised he had no sense of humor was more disturbing than any of the attempts at jokes.
 
I watched the video and was entirely unoffended. There was nothing there that I see worth making any kind of a big deal over. It's a cruise, 6+ months at sea. You do **** like this. They are sailors, they say the word **** alot. I thought the fact the XO basically advertised he had no sense of humor was more disturbing than any of the attempts at jokes.

Well aside from the liberal, dried up, fathead news anchor, they'll probably nail the officer for Article 133—Conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman.
 
I watched the video and was entirely unoffended. There was nothing there that I see worth making any kind of a big deal over. It's a cruise, 6+ months at sea. You do **** like this. They are sailors, they say the word **** alot. I thought the fact the XO basically advertised he had no sense of humor was more disturbing than any of the attempts at jokes.

Yeah, based on short descriptions I even watched the video with the preconceived idea that it was offensive. Afterwards, all I could think was "well, this is stupid, but not particularly offensive."

Like you said, they're stuck on a ****ing boat for months at a time. I'd be doing dumb **** inside of a week. Hey, let's launch a football with the aircraft catapult, see how far it goes! Hey, let's strap a skateboard to the catapult and launch this new guy next! Uh... somebody fire up the search-and-rescue helicopter...
 
The ONLY good thing I can see coming out of this is if they string an officer up by his nutsack. I served under too many officers to count. Many, many, more times, than not, they were pure-dee-assholes. They would go out of their arrogant way to bring grief upon the enlisted. So, they get no sympathy from me. Rather, they get a one-finger salute. LOL!

Hang 'em from the yardarms! Wooohooo! Go Navy!
 
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