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Personally? I'm sad to see it happen.
I'm old school Navy, when Chief's initiations and Crossing the Line ceremonies were enough to scare the living shit out of you back then but when you came out on the other side you'd learned some valuable lessons about teamwork, perseverance, commitment, trust, etc., etc...
I watched the videos online and to tell the truth didn't see things that were that bad. Sure there was some profanity, sure there was some sexual innuendo, but overall I didn't see it as something worth embarrassing the Navy or ending the guys career over. I think maybe, MAYBE the worst thing that should have happened is a letter of reprimand, and that's it. It appears the man has a distinguished career culminating in being the Commanding Officer of one of the most powerful war fighting ships in the United States Navy, hell ever created.
Sometimes civilians just don't understand the pressures of days, weeks, months at sea. The constant grind. The terrible pain of being separated from those that you love. It's a price we choose to pay willingly to defend the freedoms of this greatest nation on Earth.
As the Executive Officer one of his primary job is to ensure that the entire crew functions as a well oiled machine. The Skipper gets to (mostly) focus on the pig picture operations. The XO focuses on the day-to-day functioning of every aspect of the ship. One of the jobs of the XO is to try to maintain good morale, people that have good morale just plan function better and are better able to complete the mission. That's what this man was doing, trying to bring a little humor to the crew. Give them a moment to stop, breath, laugh.
On the ship I was on, our leaders liked to call everyone up to the flight deck (if there were no flight ops of course) to hunt for the Green Flash. Just a way to try to make a pause in the day.
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On the other hand, somethings not right here. An article I read in the Virginian-Pilot (the paper that released the videos) said that the Enterprise CO knew about it in 2007 and told the XO (Capt. Honors) to put an end to it.
That should have been the end to it, four years later the video is leaked to the media? Once it was in the MSM there wasn't much else for the Navy to do, but after this much time? As I said, somethings not right.
As a deck plate leader, if one of my guys screwed up - I pulled him in chewed his ass and that was the end of it unless the behavior continued after being told to knock it off.
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Personally? I'm sad to see it happen.
I'm old school Navy, when Chief's initiations and Crossing the Line ceremonies were enough to scare the living shit out of you back then but when you came out on the other side you'd learned some valuable lessons about teamwork, perseverance, commitment, trust, etc., etc...
I watched the videos online and to tell the truth didn't see things that were that bad. Sure there was some profanity, sure there was some sexual innuendo, but overall I didn't see it as something worth embarrassing the Navy or ending the guys career over. I think maybe, MAYBE the worst thing that should have happened is a letter of reprimand, and that's it. It appears the man has a distinguished career culminating in being the Commanding Officer of one of the most powerful war fighting ships in the United States Navy, hell ever created.
Sometimes civilians just don't understand the pressures of days, weeks, months at sea. The constant grind. The terrible pain of being separated from those that you love. It's a price we choose to pay willingly to defend the freedoms of this greatest nation on Earth.
As the Executive Officer one of his primary job is to ensure that the entire crew functions as a well oiled machine. The Skipper gets to (mostly) focus on the pig picture operations. The XO focuses on the day-to-day functioning of every aspect of the ship. One of the jobs of the XO is to try to maintain good morale, people that have good morale just plan function better and are better able to complete the mission. That's what this man was doing, trying to bring a little humor to the crew. Give them a moment to stop, breath, laugh.
On the ship I was on, our leaders liked to call everyone up to the flight deck (if there were no flight ops of course) to hunt for the Green Flash. Just a way to try to make a pause in the day.
***************************
On the other hand, somethings not right here. An article I read in the Virginian-Pilot (the paper that released the videos) said that the Enterprise CO knew about it in 2007 and told the XO (Capt. Honors) to put an end to it.
That should have been the end to it, four years later the video is leaked to the media? Once it was in the MSM there wasn't much else for the Navy to do, but after this much time? As I said, somethings not right.
As a deck plate leader, if one of my guys screwed up - I pulled him in chewed his ass and that was the end of it unless the behavior continued after being told to knock it off.
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