(Updated) Raunchy Video Navy Captain Permanently ‘Relieved of His Command’
- Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:44am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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His last name may be Honors, but the Navy believes his actions bring anything but.
Even as the Navy continues its investigation into the raunchy videos created about five years ago by Capt. O.P. Honors aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise — videos that portray sex acts and openly mock gays — it has temporarily relieved him of his command. It‘s a move NBC News says all but seals the highly respected sailor’s fate:
UPDATE:
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Navy permanently removed a senior officer from command of his aircraft carrier Tuesday because of raunchy comedy videos he made and showed to the crew several years ago. The videos, which included anti-gay slurs and sexual innuendo, showed extremely poor judgment by Capt. Owen Honors, said the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces, Adm. John C. Harvey Jr.
“While Capt. Honors’ performance as commanding officer of USS Enterprise has been without incident, his profound lack of good judgment and professionalism while previously serving as executive officer on Enterprise calls into question his character and completely undermines his credibility to continue to serve effectively in command,” Harvey said in a statement read to reporters in Norfolk on Tuesday afternoon.
Harvey did not take questions, including why Honors is just now being relieved of command when the videos were made several years ago. They surfaced when the Virginian-Pilot newspaper reported on them.
Honors has been reassigned to an administrative role. Harvey said the Navy will look into what other officers aboard the USS Enterprise knew about the videos.
No phone listing was immediately available for Honors and he did not respond to e-mails.
The videos, from 2006 and 2007, feature Honors using gay slurs, pantomiming masturbation and staging suggestive shower scenes. They were played on the shipwide television system during weekly movie night when Honors was executive officer, or second in command, of the Enterprise. Honors had since become commander of the ship.
Over the weekend, the Navy at first downplayed the videos as humorous skits, then called them unacceptable and said they were being investigated.
“After personally reviewing the videos created while serving as executive officer,” Harvey said Tuesday, “I have lost confidence in Capt. Honors’ ability to lead effectively, and he is being held accountable for poor judgment and the inappropriate actions demonstrated in the videos that were created while he served as executive officer on Enterprise.”
The videos’ existence was not news to Navy higher-ups. In a statement to the Virginian-Pilot on Friday, the Navy said its leadership had put a stop to videos with “inappropriate content” on the Enterprise about four years ago.
Some sailors who served on the Enterprise have taken to Facebook to defend Honors and his video skits for providing a much-needed morale boost during long deployments at sea.
They portrayed Honors as a man who genuinely cared about his sailors and helped them blow off steam with corny and occasionally outrageous videos he concocted every week during six-month tours of duty in the Middle East at the height of the Iraq War. Maintaining morale is typically part of the executive officer’s job.
“He was a caring professional and, yes, he has a sense of humor, but you need that on a boat,” said Misty Davis, who served on the Enterprise from 2006 to 2010. The offending video was shown in 2007, and was a compilation of previous videos he had shown, she and others said.
Fiercely loyal crew members stood by Honors after Tuesday’s announcement. Rebecca Konshak, who said she was a hospital corpsman and viewed some of the videos, wrote in an e-mail that the Navy needs leaders who can bridge the gap between officers and enlisted personnel, and that was what Honors did.
She also said she believes the Navy should investigate who was “gunning for Captain Honors and why.”
“There are too many questions that need to be answered before all of Captain Honors supporters will be satisfied with this decision,” she said.
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Comments (110)
dpselfe
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:57amIf he were Gay, and this happened this year, the MSM would have left it alone.
Report Post »Russphoto
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:54amRemember Obama said that Vick deserved a second chance for brutally killing dogs……so I am sure the commander in chief will give the Captain a second chance.
Report Post »No thinking wrong is more dangerous that killing……sorry.
Gunonesis
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:42amI hear Captain Bigone Inmybutt is now in command.
Report Post »OH, I Get It!
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:40amThe ACLU who defends the rights of films depicting all sorts of perversions, torture, blasphemy…but don’t do anything politically incorrect. I hope they censure the next Gay Pride Parades that lampoon their lifestyle, yet no complaints.
Report Post »ksagpilot
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:30amHas anyone here been on a Carrier for a 6 month deployment, the crew has to let off steam to keep from going nuts. I was on the Enterprise in the late 60s, I know from experience, this guy didn’t do anything wrong. Check our the USS Enterprise Facebook page, he has a lot of support from his crew.
Report Post »BelowAverageJoe
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:07amThe Navy has been further weakened today, no doubt with the blessing and urging of the White House. This is the first political revenge “hit” of the post Don‘t Ask Don’t Tell era.
Report Post »Country
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:21amI agree. If we punish these folks who are serving our country, who will be left to run our military? Either stiff necks or gays. Neither will be good the moral of our men and women serving our country.
Report Post »flagbearer
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:26pmEvery naval commander should support this man and turn in his resignation and refuse to support this gay agenda crap. Our military men need to stick together and support one another at this time in America’s history. If they unite, the people will support them.
Report Post »stmike
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:51amI’m sorry but I want raunchy captains in the navy. The raunchier and saltier the better. You know the kind of guy who would have the bullet belts for the machineguns run through a vat of pigs blood when doing battle in the middle-east. We actually had a commander that did that in WWII. We need more commanders like that today. Remember that movie Down Periscope? We need a captain with a tattoo on his d#!@* lol
Report Post »DeVain
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:43amWhat I have seen of the video it looks like he was goofing off and just being funny (no pun intended). Some people need to stop complaining and get a sense of humor.
Report Post »psst
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:25amMaybe there are no “Down Times ” anymore in today’s Navy.
Report Post »Heavens forbid if one uses any down-time that one does not have(anymore) to crack a few salty jokes.
Sooo, if a video sufaces showing some of our sailors praying constantly on board a US government ship there would be a massive uproar in the marxist MSM and their queer allies.That is,any kinds of praying except , repeating one more time for the first time, except praying on one’s flying carpet.
What, can’t have that. Religion on government property? Repeating again one more time for the first time,all religion except the approved religion of Mohammad the Sailor-man. Pop-Eye’s bro.
Cracking jokes about the practitioners of deviant behaviours (abominations) on government property?
What? Can’t have that.
The Captain should have spoken about the glories/wonders of the abomination lifestyles in that video and he would now be an Admiral for damn sure.
Gunonesis
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:22amHilarious video, Captain I salute you. Too bad you got caught up in Obama’s radical commie agenda and the new Gat Navy. Communist goals (1963) Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963. #26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.” Perhaps when out at sea all ****‘s should not wander too close to deck’s edge.
Report Post »BeckIsNuts
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:31amIt’s a travesty of justice. Clinton gets away with rape, but this fine Captain is lost for not being PC.
Report Post »Have-Gun-Will-Travel
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:31amPerhaps when out at sea all ****‘s should not wander too close to deck’s edge.
Another intelligent poster on The Blaze, you guys are all keyboard Rambo’s
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:20amwhy are we allowing the MILITARY to be run like your local target store? really we are far to PC as it is and sorry if peopel cant take a joke. I grew up being called names because I wear coke bottle thick glasses. OH WELL .. you didnt see me crying about it. who cares if they watch porn.. im mean I dont like it but hey whatever helps the men and women who keep me safe
Report Post »OhNavyMom
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:18amI wouldn‘t be surprised if the ship looses some of it’s best sailors(by their choice) after this. That’s exactly what this mamby pamby administration wants. The sailors see the kind of treatment a great leader is getting after so many years of service. hhhmmmm, why would they want to stick around? so they‘ll be treated the same way if they hurt someone’s feelings?? Give me a break! It’s shameful to treat him this way!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:16amPolitically correct B.S.
Report Post »SHTFMilitia.com
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:38amYea seems they were just blowing off steam
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:12amAnother sacrifice on the pagan PC altar to appease the all-powerful “Feeling.” Check your cajones at the door, boys, ‘cause the pussification of America continues with gusto. Most of the people offended by this story are bleating, busy body sheep being led by their media shepherds. Bah….
Report Post »LibertarianLady
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:07amOh Good Grief!!! Anyone who has spent any time around the military know this kind of humor is widespread. No one in any of the videos were forced to participate and no one was forced to watch. This XO found a way to help alleviate the stress of his sailors in a way they understood and appreciated. I am getting so sick of people who have never served or been cooped up aboard ship or been in tents in the Sandbox judging those who are. GROW UP PEOPLE!
Report Post »madderg
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:03amThe military is not a socially run program. Almost all the training and rules would shock most civies, and certainly all the liberals. Combat has its own rules, and the men and woman in it have little in the way of safety valves to let off steam…some of which are beyond normal reason outside the military. If the man is a finely trained top notch leader he belongs where he is, period. Jokes about gays?? get real…these people have to look you in the eye and tell you to kill or die for the good of the mission. Think about that.
Report Post »Krutch
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:14pmAH!,,,, But the military HAS become THE place for social engineering experiments. After all the ‘victims’, ie. personell, can’t just go home when they get tired of all the BS. No more DADT = same sex marrage next!
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:02amPolitical correctness has infested the military now.
Report Post »GEW
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:40amIsn’t is England that has taken the pig out of Old MacDonald Had a Farm, because it (the pig) is offensive to some of its citizens….just imagine a farm without pigs. Political correctness is not just in USA its in all Western Civilizations.
Report Post »warmac9999
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:01amIf you go back a couple of decades, the average Naval officers or old chief was given to a lot of “salty” profanities as part of the normal conversation. Today, one must exercise social tea language to make sure no one is offended. This guy should have know better but he was trying to poke some fun at the situation. His career is over unfortunately.
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:13amI think this PC stuff is pretty new since we have a dictator in the WH.. so in 2006 it probably wouldn’t be a big deal.. now everything is a BFD.. stupid to waste time and talent on such trivial things and let the REAL problems continue on as if they don’t exist.. like black panthers threatening white voters etc..
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:54amAgain I can’t help but notice the Name Honors, and Bernie Maddoff with your money
Report Post »there is too much of this to be coincidental and I will begin to point this out
as I find it.
scguitar
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:03amNot sure where the connection is between this guy and Madoff
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:30amI think I get what you are getting at…“Honors”, “Made Off with your money”…I must admit that with the media in the pocket of the traitors and their “Hell Bent on the fast-track destruction of this country” mission, I could see some weirdo sitting in a think tank somewhere and the only job that he has been assigned is to stir up trouble by causing “confusion” and “chaos” via misinformation…that gets fed to “their” media…A couple of years ago, it would have been unthinkable…NOT ANY MORE! Is this what you mean TOWER?
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:53amThis seems to be a case of how power corrupts. He had his own little fiefdom aboard one of our greatest ships, and altogether too much time on his hands.
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:03amTalk to some Navy guys and see if you opinion changes.
Report Post »LibertarianLady
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:08amYes, and it was a Happy Fiefdom! Go do better Airbag!
Report Post »1940SGUY
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:23pmSpending six months out at sea on an a carrier, there is nothing but time. A carrier is a floating city apart from the real world. Keeping order and the crew occupied, motivated and ready for what ever may come is quite a challenge. A carrier is not a cruise ship, carrier life is a balance of work routine, time and dealing with being away from loved ones and the world for six months at a time. A carrier is not a democracy, it is a weapon that defends the freedoms that most people take for granted. There has to be a definite chain of command and a leader to make it work in peace and in war.
Before you start hammering on our heros who serve this country day in and out, why don’t you get a clue as to what they have to go through! I am amazed at the whole mind set of “kill people and break things to protect us but just don’t be rude!” Thank God for these people and their service to our country.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:52amI worked for the Navy for 2 years and anyone who has been around
Report Post »knows that gay jokes about sailors are older than the bible….
warmac9999
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:03amNot any more. Can’t tell a joke that anyone might take offense at. Can’t tell a joke about Vegans, witches, even donkeys. Pretty dull existance.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:25amBut it is open season on Constitutionalists Ron Paul supporters
Report Post »and 911 truthers or anyone who questions the main stream stories
GEW
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:33amYou can still tell a blond joke and even the blonds laugh at them!
Report Post »BeckIsNuts
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:34amTower7, it should be open season on 9-11 truthers. Their tortured logic and delusional ideas have made them a laughing stock and they deserve all the ridicule that is heaped upon them.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:27amI agree here. This XO’s only crime was repeating an old, old, old, *OLD* joke.
…although at my last sexual harrassment breif (less than a year ago), the JAG said the Navy leads the military in same sex sexual harrassment cases… just sayin’… ;-)
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:50amWill they go after the Admirals who know about these vids on just about every USS ship in our Navy.?
Report Post »This is not right.
untameable-kate
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:02pmThis is putting the sensitivities of the easily offended ahead of the safety of the country.
Report Post »GEW
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:49amOne can see the radical agenda here.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:54amThe fact that this guy has been investigated way back in 2006 smells of something. I mean….what do I care, but if I were to take an educated guess thiis guy pissed the someone off so they are on a witch hunt to take him out politically. Otherwise…who cares.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:59amNow is not the time to draw and quarter our best Captains
Report Post »http://www.military.com/news/article/china-closer-on-carrier-killer-missile.html?col=1186032325324
unless you are taking orders from CHINA ?
LibertarianLady
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:13am@Cobra Blue
Report Post »We should ALL care. This is about more than just one XO getting into trouble. It is about the woosification of our military. They are expected to be hard core fighting/killing machines who magically cast off stress and tension.
marhee9
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:17amThey really had no choice but to relieve him of command. The man made a poor choice making these videos, and then sharing them with the crew. They were kind of weird too. Maybe I just didn’t get the humor in it.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – A place for conservatives.
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:18am@Tower – I wonder why we don’t hear more about the killer missile in the news.
Report Post »ME
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:25amHas anyone watched the video a pg-13 at best if you take out the f-bomb part it would be to tame for prime time tv. I don’t know what this is about but if this is what gets you kicked out of the millitary I have never meet anyone that would have survived.
Report Post »BeckIsNuts
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:26amNow here’s where Capt. OP went wrong: you have to be way up the chain of command if you want to stay safe when you stray outside the lines. It also helps to be a Democrat too (right Barney Frank?), but that’s another story. Now, a guy named Christopher Hitchens wrote a little expose (No One Left to Lie To) on Bill Clinton where he pretty much nailed his hide to the barn door for going overboard with his unwanted sexual attentions he paid to a few ladies in the past. He even made a very strong case that he raped a woman named Juanita Brodderick. But look at him. He’s been everywhere, holding his head high and raking in some serious green in spite of that.
Now Capt. OP only made an off-color video in an successful attempt to boost moral on his ship and they want his head on a platter. The man has done a great job protecting all of us Americans for years and no real harm resulted from his attempt at humor. But some little spoil sport had to claim their “feeelings” were hurt. Now we all lose a great Capt that was doing his duty protecting all of us over nonsense. It’s kind of like firing the finest, most heroic lifeguard on the beach for having a girlie magazine in his locker. We all lose on this one.
It appears one has to have the liberal media on their side in this country these days. Political correctness may be destroying our nation, but that‘s what we’re all stuck with until some foreign power takes over this increasingly weak and fractured nation.
Report Post »cnsrvtvj
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:27amJust more political correctness.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:31amAnd yet again, political correctness triumphs over common sense.
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:34amHe is but the very first of many more “targets” to come after the repeal of DADT. Isn’t it amazing when all of these Progressives, many of whom openly and un-ashamedly HATE the military, become so interested in the “moral state” of all who serve our country in uniform??? The Progressive agenda is just now starting to flex it’s muscle…..many lawsuits are on the way……I just hope that our men and women who serve our nation so honorably know a good lawyer!!…..Is the term “good lawyer” a oxymoron??
Report Post »oldguy48
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:03amWhat is this guy’s political leanings? There is evidence that the administration is trying to secure control with correct thinking officers.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:51amLibertarianLady
I should have clarified my point. I do not care what happened 4 years ago….that smells of witch hunt. Ditto!! and it goes without saying (but maybe I should have) that the liberal progressives are doing everything they can to soften the military. The military should make men hardened fighting machines. Not powder puff girly men or A** grabbers. At some point there will be fewer and fewer REAL men that want to serve. Thus the liberal progressives will have achieved their goal. Same applies to the Boys Clubs, Boy Scouts, etc. etc. There are things in this life that are all men and things that are all women. And the two should not me.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:48amcan anyone link the origianal un censored version of this ?
Report Post »Thanks in advance
GeauxAlready
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:47amPC gone crazy…………….
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:45amGiven the fact that these video were taped several years ago -and the suggestion that the Village People (US Navy) appears to have known about them. suggestions that this is the first INTENDED consequence in Repeal of DADT gains credibility. I saw nothing in the video to suggest Commander Honors is unfit for Command. The video (excerpts I saw anyhow) were sophomoric but I would not even suggest reprimand. There is competing suggestion that the NAVY recognized the ships performance during the time period when these video were taped -so clearly this is a sacrifice to the Navys’ openly gay sailors.The Dept. of the Navy is truly now the Village People
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:12amImprovised screwball comedy is a natural part of being in an unnatural and constrained situation and is a proven stress reliever. It promotes cohesion.
Watch a South Pacific DVD sometime.
Report Post »Major Infidel
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:19pmSo every Shellback in the Navy is unfit for duty then? Agreed, PC gone crazy. He is being made an example of by the DOD, to show the active duty gays and the liberal politicians that they are sincere about adopting the new and rediculous policy.
The queers I really have no problem with. Just keep it to yourself and I’ll keep my sexual life to myself, do your job and we’ll all get along. Whats wrong with that?
FreedomMissMeYet
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:27pmThe ‘very sensitive’ nurturers among us are rightly offended? Really? The XO was actually self-deprecating (see the video of the XO dressing himself in drag). His ascension in the ranks attests to his success in boosting Navy moral.
He and his crew risk their lives to provide those on the mainland the freedom to choose sexual orientation and belly ache about how offended their keen sensibilities become. Be careful what you wish for nurturers, Rome is burning and nature will not be nearly as kind.
Report Post »MR_ANDERSON
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:27amDo you know how Leaders are judged in the Navy?
Anyone who is E-7 through O-10 is not judged on what they do, but rather what the personnel they lead do.
This Captain’s crew is happier and accomplishing more. They are more focused when on watch, because they were able to unwind off-watch. When people laugh together, it creates an atmosphere that even people who really dislike one another at times will act more amicable towards each other. This means they work better as a team. Teams that work better together are more productive. I’ve seen officers relieved for bad moral.
So anyone that wants to know how he was promoted, it was because he knows how to positively motivate people.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 2:45amthis happened 3 years ago, now that the military is officially gay, we must correct the behavior of our past military.a few years in a re-education camp might work for this commander.
Report Post »ALF
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:38pmAnother death of an icon.
Report Post »Dyllon
Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:49pmThat’s not being politically correct, that’s called complete unprofessionalism, indecency, and complete intolerance for his fellow, homosexual compatriots.
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