Are you saying our soldiers can't overcome that!?!? We have the best military in the world, are you saying we can't deal with our commanders being overly concerned about enforcing PC attitudes and still be the best in the world?
You must have a very low opinion of our fighting men!!!
(Note: this post was tongue-in-cheek and parody of the arguments I've seen about forcing other stupidity -not here mentioned as to avoid one of the features of APS- on our military.)
Tongue in cheek noted, but yes we can go to war with bull dykes and frontline fairies and do just fine. We've been doing it.
There's a HUGE difference between officers trying to force the enlisted personnel to be totally PC, versus the command ranks trying to be "just one of the boys" and actively generating and distributing videos that are demeaning and derogatory ... not to mention just plain gutter trash.
As one of the comments in that article said: The commander is not the enlisted personnel's friend, he (or she) is their boss.
It matters not that what happened here is mildly offensive, what matters is a minor infraction from 4 years ago can stop the career of someone who is presumably one of the 12 most tactically proficient aviation O-6s in the Navy. The survivors of the peer group will just make life unbearable for their commands. I've worked for the old line COs that could give a flying #$% less about crap like this and I've worked for Captain Queeg come lately. Guess who we will get more of. Guess who will be more likely to stifle initiative, hazard the vessel, and in general just screw up more. The minds that produce raunchy Youtube videos are often the same ones that have enough creativity and drive to be more dangerous to our enemies than to our own ships.
Several years ago we had a safety standdown followed by a Christmas party. Of course the safety standdown included State Trooper Smiley and his drinking and driving lecture. Then we had a Christmas party at the O club, the skipper bought into the open bar for $1000 of his own money and the XO helped. Later we had a BS DUI(guy was sitting in his car in the parking lot, not driving) from this. By these standards that this current incident codifies the CO should have been relieved. Nevermind that he flies pretty much anything and flies it well. Nevermind that he has had several successful commands, he's gotta go.
