Posted on 01/07/2006 11:26:27 AM PST by pabianice
The U.S. Naval Academy has ordered a court-martial for a faculty member who made a "crude" remark in the presence of female midshipmen, even though an investigating officer recommended only administrative action.
The three criminal charges against Lt. Bryan D. Black come as the Annapolis school's superintendent, Vice Adm. Rodney P. Rempt, has announced a "zero-tolerance" campaign to rid the campus of sexual harassment. Lt. Black says he is being unfairly prosecuted as a "poster child" for Adm. Rempt's campaign. The academy filed criminal charges days after the school's board of visitors criticized Adm. Rempt after a Defense Department sexual harassment task force scolded the school. Adm. Rempt's anti-sexual-harassment policy includes urging midshipmen and staff to view for the third year straight a play called "Sex Signals." The language is so graphic that Adm. Rempt recommends that children should not attend any performance of the three-day run on campus, starting Monday. "The two-person show explores how mixed messages, gender role stereotypes and unrealistic fantasies contribute to misunderstandings between the sexes," Adm. Rempt said in a message to staff. An academy spokeswoman declined to comment on Adm. Rempt's decision to court-martial the officer. Lt. Black, who has been removed as an oceanography teacher at Annapolis, has filed an appeal of Adm. Rempt's decision with Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter. "I do not believe my case has been handled fairly on its merits or on the facts," Lt. Black said. "Rather, I believe I am the 'poster child' being held out as an example following the critical evaluation of the academy and by direct extension, its leadership and superintendent personally."
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PC is gutting the Country I love.
Sadly true however I purpose to continue "to fight the good fight" until they lay me to rest!
Women who get easily offended shouldn't be in the military. That's obvious, isn't it? I guess only to me.
They made us have a one day stand-down for sexual harassment training....on a ship of 5500 men, no women.
I gotta know what he said. I can't think of anything dirty enough to warrant three criminal charges.
I wonder if the Navy would change its tune if a few thousand members resigned, "because they were afraid they too might offend a member and therefore also face criminal charges."
Yeah, that is more like it.
I must have the wrong year, I wasn't onboard in '91. Must google....
What's she going to do if the enemy captures her and tells her dirty jokes? Is she going to give away all the secrets.
Amarosa????
So, What was the joke ?
Write to Senator McCain.
Remember when women demanded to be allowed to enter these institutions. It was said they wouldn't change a thing.
Hazing had been a tradition for centuries. Some of it was over the top, but much of it actually helped to build a strong toughened graduate.
Then the women entered the scene, and now it's even verboten to tell the 'wrong type' of joke.
Pansies rule!
Those who railed against allowing women to enter these institutions have been proven right.
Yes, Amaroosa, "IS THAT YOU?"
LMAO, good one...
Okay, I glanced at the article, and I didn't see exactly what the remark was. Was it something Freudian about the guns?
PC has more fire power in killing our military's fighting spirit than the MSM does!
I would refuse to serve under Vice Adm. Rodney P. Rempt under any circumstances
Its getting so bad that the military will have to recruit 25% more women so they can pull up the slack women give us one time out of the month. China is not PC and in the future are going to give us hell if it breaks out. Besides, China will have about 40 million surplus men to throw at us when the time comes and PC be damned.
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