Posted on 06/03/2014 5:45:30 PM PDT by windcliff
SAN DIEGO (AP) A former Blue Angels commander tolerated inappropriate sexual comments and pornographic images in the workplace including photos of naked women in the cockpits of the precision flying team's planes during his time as its leader, the Navy said Tuesday.
Capt. Gregory McWherter was found guilty of violating two articles under the military's code of justice during nonjudicial proceedings convened Monday in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The articles were failure to obey an order or regulation and conduct unbecoming of an officer by fostering a hostile command climate and failing to stop "obvious and repeated instances of sexual harassment, condoning widespread lewd practices within the squadron and engaging in inappropriate and unprofessional discussions with his junior officers," the Navy said in a statement.
He will be given a letter of reprimand that will go in McWherter's permanent file and is widely seen as a career-ender in the service. McWherter told Navy officials he did not wish to speak to the media, said Cmdr. Kevin Stephens, a spokesman at Naval Air Forces.
The Navy said his command had explicit pornography, including photos of naked women, in aircraft cockpits; the painting of male genitalia on the roof of the center point trailer at the Blue Angels' winter training facilities in El Centro; and "sexually charged, raunchy, and homophobic humor" on maps and itineraries.
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I love the “explicit” porn reference. Is there implicit porn?
“Lighten up, Francis!”
nope
>>> Maybe if the Navy painted a few pictures of Hillarys fat ass on a few of those planes the authorities would be swept up in the esprit de corps. <<<
No can do. It would exceed the AC’s load limits.
And that’s Esprit de “Corpse” you dummy. :-)
I will reply with same answer I gave someone else How about we start posting tittie pictures here? I mean we are all grown ups right? Can’t we just relax once in a while?
This is a public forum with specific rules. Different situation.
I don’t want our military to be a bunch of fornicating horn-dogs, but I don’t want them pussified either.
Legend has it that somebody complained to Lincoln that General Grant drank. Lincoln is supposed to have said, "If it [drink] makes fighting men like Grant, then find out what he drinks, and send my other commanders a case!".
And that is a federal workplace with specific rules. It’s not some boys club.
Where do all of you people work? With 15 year old boys? A modern workplace is no place for pornography. It doesn’t matter if there are women there or not.
Why is this so hard to comprehend?
“We aren’t no thin red ‘eroes, nor we aren’t no blackguards too, but single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An’ if sometimes our conduck isn’t all your fancy paints, why, single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints...”
- Kipling
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