{"id":21709,"date":"2011-01-04T09:17:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T13:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21709"},"modified":"2011-01-04T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T16:04:43","slug":"navy-relieves-capt-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21709","title":{"rendered":"Navy relieves Capt. Honors (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:<\/strong> Associated Press <\/a>is now reporting that the captain’s relief for cause is permanent.<\/p>\n

So the Navy decided to take the path of least resistance and bow to their civilian masters. They temporarily relieved Captain Owen Honors<\/a> for his video productions more than four years ago while he the Executive Officer of the USS Enterprise.<\/p>\n

Wasn’t it the Agriculture Department who, a few years, found large numbers of their agency employees downloading porn on their government computers? They wouldn’t release the names of the employees and they all eventually returned to work. I guess that civilians are held to a different standard than military members.<\/p>\n

I can show you much worse stuff that my father recorded during his time in the Navy when his ship, the USS Saipan, crossed the Equator. Stuff involving crawling through garbage, a cross-dresser in mermaid garb – and that was during the Korean War. Does the Navy want to investigate that, too?<\/p>\n

People are finally watching the video rather than take the media’s word and folks just don’t think there’s much there to be outraged about. Well, except the Left, of course. One local TV station went as far as to call the video a “Navy orientation video”. That story has been pulled, but the internet remembers;<\/p>\n

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The Huffington Post<\/a> says that somehow these videos cast a pall over “the Navy culture”;<\/p>\n

The military has undergone a cultural shift in recent decades away from the loutish, frat-boy behavior that was exposed by the Tailhook scandal in 1991. It is now working to accommodate gays in its ranks with Congress’ repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Also, the Navy is opening its all-male submarine force to women this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, the uproar over the video only serves to highlight the growing gulf between our military and civilian cultures. No one would have thought twice about Honors’ video if it had emerged in a college fraternity. Well, most of the crowd who Honors was playing to are college fraternity-aged. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: Associated Press is now reporting that the captain’s relief for cause is permanent. So the … Navy relieves Capt. Honors (UPDATED)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}