The sailors requested anonymity for fear of retribution.
One of them said he mailed a complaint about the videos to the Navy Inspector General this week. Others said crew members who raised concerns aboard the ship in 2006 and 2007 were brushed off....
A female sailor who was assigned to the Enterprise at the time said she and a number of other women on board were offended by the videos. She said some crew members complained about them, and in fact, Honors acknowledged it on camera. In one movie, he says, "Over the years I've gotten several complaints about inappropriate materials in these videos, never to me personally but, gutlessly, through other channels.
We can play the game of some support and some don't all day long. The thing is there were members who kept their mouths shut out of fear, and he darn well knew it.
He created an environment of fear and to me there is no way you can say that is a sign of good leadership.
Of course you know the rivalry, I am sure you felt it between aviation and your career field because both of you got to wear flight suits, the same with desk jockeys at Minot vs Missile guys or enlisted vs officers. It exists in every branch, but did the O6 on your base call the Maintenance officer a Faggot for 5000 people to hear and see?
Did he at his commander's call, call out any member as gutless?
Are you saying that your job sitting alert on a button was not as stressful as sitting on a ship? Are you saying that stress is an excuse for this behavior? Heck, in the AF Minot has a saying...why not Minot? Freezin is the reason! I can't believe being stationed at Minot was a thrill a moment even off duty. People in the AF that have the option of never going there will do anything to avoid the place including taking a remote for a yr. Nobody joins the AF and says I want Minot as my number 1 choice if they have the option to go to other places like Randolph, Hickham or Eglin. Minot is like Mt Home or Eilson when it comes to base assignments.
The idea that the AF aviators do not eat their young (FNGs) as fast as the Navy is pure BS. The difference is the ones that eat them are O3's, not O6's. The O3's will call the FNGS every name in the book, however, the minute they pin on O4, that is all over. There is a joke about pinning on O4 in the AF, and it is "now you are no longer one of us, but one of them". Field grade is a big promotion, that is the time you are expected to be the parent and no longer the child in the AF.
Had he done this as an O3, that would be one thing. He truly didn't hold anyone's career in his hands, but his own. He did this as 2nd in command of 5K people and he held many members careers in his hands.
I am looking at this as a woman, and I am saying that if I was a woman, I would have kept my mouth shut, counted the days and plotted my career to never be in his scope again. As a woman, the crap he said was very offensive.
FWIW, I am a Jersey girl, I play Crud, I curse, and I am probably the only wife who has no problem starting off the chorus of "Head, who said Head..." I am very thick skinned. Yet, even to me that crossed the line when it comes to my expectations. AGAIN, no problem with me if he did this in the Club or the hootch from a social perspective. Big problem when he used military assets to broadcast it.
