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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
Doesn't sound like a witch hunt at all to me. It sounds like the man, in a position of authority, not only made inappropriate comments and gestures, but videotaped them and broadcast them over the ship's CC TV. The Navy looked the other way until someone, likely someone who was offended by the acts, procured a copy and leaked it to the press. Now the Navy is forced to do what it probably should have done a long time ago.
I'll never understand the 'boys will be boys' attitude that many people have towards the military; a rationale used to excuse all kinds of inappropriate behavior, from the blatent abuse of prisoners to the Tailhook scandal. Service to one's country goes not grant the right to act in these ways.
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This is hardly prisoner abuse or "Tailhook".
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I'll never understand", easy answer to that is to serve for a few years in any service for pretty much any nation.
Speaking as a serviceman this is just part of the life.
Relax, chill out, the military
is different to civilian life.
We do have different standards and values.
To my eyes this video is a bunch of shipmates having a laugh entertaining their shipmates.
Unfortuantly this officer will probably end up in alot of trouble, IMO thats a shame because a sense of humour is one of the prime requirements of any serviceman. If you can't have a laugh or shrug of something that offends you, how on earth would you cope on operations?
Really who do you want to defend you? A collection of PC touchy feely hug the world types.