Tailhook V3.0
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...
More military purges from this administration.
Tailhook V3.0
Why believe anything from the lying Nazi pigs at the Seattle PI?
WWII nose art. Somehow, despite raunchy art, we won that one.
And the further away from a major command HQ that a bomber group was located, the nekkider the nose art got.
Search “airplane graveyard” & find footage taken after WWII of B-17’s & B-24’s being scrapped. Lots of naked nose art that would make today’s PC prissies faint dead away.
The same Patton?
"This is a barracks; it's not a bordello."
That’s why they call it a “cockpit”.
If it had no women in it, it would be called the White House.
"Fanless" meant no prop. It was a glider and long before it became an epithet, "faggot" meant a bundle of sticks.
Very interesting story surrounding this particular aircraft.
What is your point?
LOL @ 'the horror' !
Another one bites the dust. Looks like the purge continues.
Gosh, what a bunch of pantywaists we have become in this world. I can remember my first job in a large factory, where one whole tool room was papered with Playboy centerfolds and most every work team had their collection of skin mags that they openly looked at during lunches and breaks. Many of the women had male mags to ogle.
Yeah, I know this was neither right nor proper and I have learned better as I have aged - having been beaten on by the Holy Spirit to turn away from such things. Point is, it’s not something to destroy someone’s career over. In a world where people walk around with instant access to porn sites in their pockets, this should be a matter of internal discipline and no more.
Why do I suspect that, if he had pics of naked men instead of women, nobody would say a word about it for fear of the pink mafia?
“So? I’d be more concerned if those jocks didn’t have pictures.”
Maybe if the Navy painted a few pictures of Hillary’s fat ass on a few of those planes the authorities would be swept up in the esprit de corps.
I am kinda thinking that the individual that can handle a 4-5 G turn while being shot at probably should be shown a little leeway...
Most likely they wouldn’t fly them. Imagine having that picture on your plane ... ugh.
“Homophobic”.
That’s the killer right there.
“I’m shocked!”
Yeah, but the females depicted in that nose-art are not nekkid! I want to see the nekkid ones! ;-)
Post-tailhook, what was he thinking?
And the male wedding tackle visible in a Google satellite view must have been the straw that broke this open.
“I am kinda thinking that the individual that can handle a 4-5 G turn while being shot at probably should be shown a little leeway...”
Amen and worth repeating!
Pictures of naked men probably would have been ok though...
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