I've seen three of these videos, I'm yet to see anything in them that would convince me that this Officer should have lost his command.
But something no one has mentioned. There was a JAG officer that actually appeared in one of the videos. And nothing came of it 4 years ago.
I wonder if the person or persons responsible for pushing this now were even on board the ship 4 years ago when these videos were shown.
I also remind you the entire purpose of the videos were to help keep up moral during deployment. And that using DADT as a backdrop at that time would be as acceptable as using the Haircut regulation.
This video has been out for 4 years and nothing was said about it then? It makes a person wonder why it's a bad video now?
The Military has gotten more and more conservative over the years, a friend of mine joined the Air Force in 1988 and he told me back than the base used to hire strippers to come perform at the base club every Friday, it was even so lenient than smoking weed would just get out a Letter of Counseling. Now its completely different, in order to have a more family friendly image the Military has chased the strippers out of the club and if you get caught smoking weed they will throw your ass in jail, zero tolerance for drug use. The same thing with this, with the whole DADT hoopla, this video is a problem now because of all the gay bashing in the video, action had to be taken.