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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Oh the horror! Pictures of naked women in the cockpit!
Somebody show these PC nellies pictures of WWII nose art & the naked women depicted thereupon. It’ll give them the vapors for sure.
I mean, holy cr@p!
TTITWWP…!
>:(
Oh The Horror...
Angry Butch Dykes the world over are fuming now...
Government employees should be held to high standards
If the Blue Angels were to come forward and proclaim that they were all LBGT, then all would be forgiven and they would get a prime seat at the State of the Union Address.
RAUNCHY humor on MAPS in the US NAVY…?!?!?!??!?!
This has NEVER happened before..!
Starting with Obama.
;^)
Normal dude.
So? I’d be more concerned if those jocks didn’t have pictures.
Well I guess they have to hold someone responsible
for something in this government. The bureaucrats get
a pass on far worse.
I'm shocked!
The pictures that launched a thousand planes.
OMG naked women
That is not the point. Do you want someone stupid enough to allow that in the workplace in charge of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of your equipment. Once again, it is the lack of judgement, not the severity of the crime.
In 1944 there was one set of standards. In 2014 there is another. Not having nude pictures in your workplace I’d not a tough call. This guy clearly missed the class where everyone was told this was bad.
George Patton is famous for pointing out that a “soldier who won’t fxxk, won’t fight.”
The blue noses are going to saddle us with an expensive military that can’t win a conflict. Aggression and sex are closely connected.
tell me about it, he probably has posters of Osama on the Oval Office bathroom wall
Open cockpit inspection!
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