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US Navy Likely to Suspend Captain for Lewd Videos

   VOA News 04 January 2011
   In  this  photo  provided  by  the  US Navy, an aerial bow view of the
   aircraft  carrier  USS Enterprise is shown as it transits the Atlantic
   Ocean (File Photo)

Photo: AP

   In  this  photo  provided  by  the  US Navy, an aerial bow view of the
   aircraft  carrier  USS Enterprise is shown as it transits the Atlantic
   Ocean (File Photo)

   The  U.S.  Navy  says it will remove the captain of the USS Enterprise
   aircraft  carrier  from his command post pending an investigation into
   lewd videos he produced in 2006 and 2007.
   Officials  say the suspension of 49-year-old Captain Owen Honors could
   come as early as Tuesday.
   Honors  also stars in the videos, which are filled with anti-gay slurs
   and sexually explicit references.
   The  videos  were shown on the ship's closed-circuit television system
   to  the carrier's crew of 6,000 during deployment. At the time, Honors
   was the ship's executive officer, or second-in-command.
   The  videos  were  first  made  public Saturday by The Virginian-Pilot
   newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia, where the USS Enterprise is based.
   A   Navy   spokesman,   Commander   Chris   Sims,  called  the  videos
   "inappropriate"  and  said  the  Navy does not endorse or condone such
   actions.

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