Disgusting Homophobia in The Military Videos featuring lewd jokes and anti-gay slurs were produced on Navy aircraft carrier
Capt. Owen Honors, the Enterprise's executive officer from 2005 to 2007, apparently created, produced and starred in the short movies, which were broadcast to entertain the ship's 6,000 crew members. January 02, 2011|By Corinne Reilly, Virginian-Pilot Reporting from Norfolk, Va. — In one scene, two female Navy sailors stand in a shower stall aboard an aircraft carrier, pretending to wash each other. They joke about how they should get six minutes under the water instead of the mandated three. In other skits, sailors parade in drag, use anti-gay slurs and simulate masturbation and a rectal exam. Another scene implies that an officer is having sex in his stateroom with a donkey. Ads by Google GM Navy OffersExclusive GM Offers for the Navy. Learn More! www.gmmilitarydiscount.com/Navy They're all part of a series of short movies produced aboard the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier Enterprise in 2006 and 2007 and broadcast to its nearly 6,000 sailors and Marines. The man who masterminded and starred in them is Capt. Owen Honors — now the commander of the carrier. The videos, obtained by the Virginian-Pilot this week, were shot and edited with government equipment, many of them while the Enterprise was deployed supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the time, Honors was the carrier's executive officer, or XO, the commanding officer's deputy. He took command of the ship in May. In the videos, Honors indicates that he's trying to entertain the crew. The clips were shown roughly once a week on closed-circuit shipwide television, according to a few sailors who were assigned to the Enterprise at the time. The sailors requested anonymity for fear of retribution. The sailors who spoke to the Pilot estimated that Honors made a few dozen videos and said not all of them contained sexual jokes and anti-gay remarks. One said he mailed a complaint about the videos to the Navy inspector general this week. Others said crew members who raised concerns aboard the ship in 2006 and 2007 were brushed off. The videos were part of what Honors, 49, called "XO Movie Night." At the beginning of the videos, Honors jokes that his bosses shouldn't be held responsible for them. "As usual, I want to say that the captain and the admiral, they don't know anything at all about the content of this video or the movie this evening, and they should absolutely not be held accountable in any judicial setting," he says. The Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is set to deploy overseas this month. It's unclear why the videos recently resurfaced, although one sailor who spoke to the newspaper said they remain on at least one shipboard computer. More: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/02/nation/la-na-navy-videos-20110102 -- Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. Have a great day, Tommy -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
