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  • The left is in control of the MILITARY. The clintons' did their best to get PATRIOT Senior NCO's and Officers out of the MILITARY when they were in power.
  • I believe this is a distraction for the American public.  ANOTHER distraction.  Was anyone FORCED to participate?  No.  Was anyone FORCED to watch or listen?  No.   

    People would often be truly offended if they heard what passes for humor among those with very stressful jobs: nurses, ER doctors, morticians, law enforcement officers, firefighters, EMTS.  It's people laughing at what seems funny at the time within the context of their daily work.  "Inside jokes" NOT meant for the general public  and NOT directed with malice towards anyone else. 

    If this man's punishment is upheld, every satirical comedic show on cable tv and in every nightclub in America will have to be shut down too, starting with Letterman and going right on through South Park, Family Guy and Two-and-a-Half Men. 

  • It is a crying shame that people have become so damned thin skinned. If we can't have a good laugh, then what in the hell is life about. If some queer doesn't like something, then they can request a discharge, if some Muslim is offended, toss the bastard over board and let the sharks get indigestion. It is time we get over being politically correct and start being AMERICANS!  An American is as politically incorrect as they come. If we were, we never would have revolted against the English back in 1775.

     

    I urge every one to burn the wires of the Pentagon and demand the Captain  be left the hell alone! Also to demand that Lt. Lakin be exonerated , restored to rank and sent home. Let the Pentagon rear end kissers know we are sick of the crap.

    • I get offended at the profanity of our comedy clubs. SNL is one of the rauchiest parody shows on TV----and it's great.  I was raised as an air force brat, and when you are overseas away from your family for two years, you must blow off steam to get over being so darned home sick.  The pentagon needs to tell the over-sensitive cry-babies to get over it.  What that commander did was harmless, boosted morale, and made being away from home for his men tolerable.  In poor judgement?  Those in the Pentagon who suspeneded him over this are in poor judgement and should be investigated as to whose a** they are kissing.

       

      Dorothy

    • I totally agree!
  • Political correctness strikes again..........how many Admirals will stand up for the Captain??   If there was just one that would tell the Sec Def  " I kicked his ass for bad judgement and told him to get the hell back to work defending America"... that should have settled the entire issue........
    • Harry

      I said before and I'll say it again

      POLITICAL CORRECTNESS BE DAMNED

       

      If I say something and some else overhears me that should not have then it's their fault not mine and if this Capt. did something to help relieve stress then he did a good thing. these bozos do not know how much stress there is aboard a carrier and stress relief is a good thing where ever you see it. The idiots that are called politicians should have to spend about 6 months aboard a carrier to see just how much stress that there is, and then decide about a case like this.

    • Harry

      I said about a dozen times

      Political correctness be damned

      It is more like religious correctness or something like that, you know don't offend the other person, Well if they don't like it too bad  they can just walk away. This Capt may have messed up BUT he did not make them watch the video. And I have to agree with you that the Admiral should have just kicked his proverbial butt and then sent him back to work.

    • I'm sure they checked for Non-Judicial Punishment, first.  I still have an Article 15 fully signed and locked up in a safe somewhere . . . just in case!

       

      Just me, however, I wouldn't let SECDEF or SECNAV clean my john!

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    He may very well have been alleviating  boredom and I am sure his efforts were appreciated. I cannot speak to what the Clinton did or did not do regarding NCOs and officers.  This does not jeopardize any comedy act that I know of nor does it jeopardize the humor in ERs or fire houses etc. Yes, PC is totally out of control when a pole can’t tell a Polish joke without bothering someone.

    Unfortunately, he was number 3 on a ship with 6000 men and women where discipline must be maintained. All 6000 could watch these antics whenever they wished on the ship’s TV. Please go to a site that offers access to the uncut, uncensored tapes as I did. If you come back and think he is being mistreated, then so be it. It has absolutely nothing to do with his non-PC statements.

    People at his level are not given the luxury of making videos like this. Were he in a corporate environment, he would have been out the door the very same day. Yearly, we were briefed on what constituted harassment. The first year I was stunned, my company was so conservative we were not even to tell someone “you look nice today.” Since I was a SVP and Board Member, I took it seriously.

    In the military, orders need to be obeyed nor questioned because you saw the XO in a tape the previous night. He knew he was over the line. Knew. How can I tell? He said repeatedly that the Admiral and Captain had no knowledge of what he was doing. This shows me he wanted to protect them if that well known material hit the fan.

    It’s sad a person of his caliber should be hit with something like this but, he knew he was over the line and it caught up with him. Sad.

     

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