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equipment, “many of them while the Enterprise was deployed supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Excerpts from the videos (viewable at pilotonline.com) reveal a fairly amateurish effort at humor, relying heavily on crude sexual language, including the slur "fag" and the "fuck you" finger gesture. Honors also uses the Navy acronym "SWO❞—surface warfare officer-in a derogatory manner. There is apparently some social rivalry between SWOS, who work onboard ship, and aviators who fly jets off the carrier. Honors has been both in the past. In one scene, where Honors plays himself as an aviator and as a SWO, the aviator calls his counterpart a “fag SWO boy."
Much of the humor is self-deprecating, showing Honors, who has a buzz cut, wearing a shower cap as he looks for an empty shower. When he opens the shower curtain and finds two men, his reaction appears to be dismay that the shower is not available and he reminds the men that they have a time limit for shower use. Ditto for his discovery of two women in a similar shower scenario.
In another scene, two lower-ranking service members open the door to Honors' quarters and discover a mock S&M scene taking place with a leather-masked man—who appears to have been plucked from some movie scene and a donkey. When one crewman suggests Honors wear a thong as a way of improving the video, up pops a photograph of a hairy man in just a thong with Honors' head superimposed on top. He is posed between four bikini-clad women on a beach.
"Don't ask, don't tell's gone a little too far there, huh?" quips Honors with a laugh, looking at the photo.
In Video 3, Honors is at his desk, telling his audience that he's tired of hearing complaints about the training videos being boring, and he's going to go out and ask various crew members what they want. An "alternate personality" of Honors pops up from below the desk and quips, "I got a great idea. Let's go ask the Checkmates about being gay. Oh, that's not a very good idea, is it?"
The Checkmates are a squadron of jet fighters on the ship, and Honors was a member of it for several years. Near the end of the video, as R&B vocalist R. Kelly sings, "I don't see nothing wrong with a little bump and grind" in the background, it shows two muscular men in the shower, with one gently
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In yet another scene, Honors is shown asleep in his bunk and a male sailor sits up in bed next to him. Honors reacts by laughing.
Admiral John C. Harvey Jr., commander of the United States Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, issued a statement January 4 saying he had permanently relieved Honors of his duties as commanding officer of USS Enterprise.
Harvey said Honors showed a "profound lack of good judgment and professionalism" that "calls into question his character and completely undermines his credibility to continue to serve effectively in command."
Harvey indicated he had personally reviewed the videos in question, and that he no longer believes Honors has the "ability to lead effectively.”
Aubrey Sarvis, head of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, called on the Navy to investigate the videos.
"Captain Owen Honors was acting more like the president of a frat house rather than the executive officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise," said Sarvis on January 3.
Many news reports focused prominently on the use of anti-gay slurs and other gay references, noting that Congress had just voted in December to repeal the ban on openly gay people in the military.
But the news about the Enterprise videos also broke at a time when Congress has also been putting the military under increasing pressure to address the problem of sexual harassment and assault against female service members. One in three women in a 2009 military report indicated they had been sexually assaulted while serving.
The Washington Post reported that the Navy has made efforts to discourage what has been a long-standing tradition of crude sexual teasing, including a practice of having male sailors dress up as women to perform in "beauty contests" and having sailors making their first trip across the equator lick grape jelly off the belly of a "fat sailor who is dressed in an oversized diaper."
Admiral Harvey said the investigation into the videos would continue, to determine whether other senior officers may have had known about the videos and should have taken action.
"Capt. Honors has been reassigned to administrative duties with the Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic," said Harvey. A new captain took command of the Enterprise on January 4.
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