Navy to release lewd, homophobic video investigation findings

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In this undated frame grab taken from video obtained by the Virginian-Pilot newspaper, U.S. Navy Capt. Owen Honors, portraying various Navy personnel, is shown three times in one frame of a profanity-laced comedy sketch that was digitally altered by members in the U.S. Navy and broadcast on the USS Enterprise via closed-circuit television. The top officer aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier broadcast to his crew the series of sketches in which he uses gay slurs, mimics masturbation and opens the shower curtain on women pretending to bathe together, The Virginian-Pilot reported. The Navy brusquely fired the captain on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2010, more than three years after he made the lewd videos to boost morale for his crew, timing that put the military under pressure to explain why it acted only after the videos became public.(AP Photo/The Virginian Pilot, File)


NORFOLK, Va. – The Navy was expected to release the findings of its investigation into the broadcast of raunchy videos aboard the USS Enterprise on Thursday, including what actions will be taken against the nuclear aircraft carrier's former commander.

Capt. Owen Honors was relieved of command in January shortly before a scheduled deployment to the Middle East after Navy leaders learned about the videos from media reports.

The videos, produced on the ship and broadcast to the crew during deployments between October 2005 and December 2007, included anti-gay slurs, sailors of both genders in shower scenes and salty language. They were broadcast over the ship's television system during weekly movie nights.

Honors, who was serving as the Enterprise's executive officer at the time, starred in the videos. Sailors aboard the ship when the videos aired have said they were intended to be humorous and served as a way of maintaining morale on long deployments. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110303/ap_on_re_us/us_lewd_navy_video

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1. just another day at the office nt

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2. Honors Dishonors Self, Navy.

Suggested headline for the report.