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[Akura]

Search turned up nothing, and I'm a bit surprised this hasn't been posted. Anyways...

Captain Owen Honors, formerly the captain of the carrier USS Enterprise, was relieved of command yesterday, following the publication of a serious of lewd and inappropriate videos produced by him. Here's a news link.

I'll agree that videotaping stuff like that shows a massive lack of the professionalism required for such a high position, but the big question is probably why the Navy hasn't done anything about it until it showed up in a large newspaper. The videos were made several years ago, when Honors was Executive Officer of the Enterprise, and the Navy was aware of it, and the complaints about it, but the Navy simply ignored it.

[Simmura McCrea]

Goddamn it, I thought this was going to be about Patrick Stuart not playing Picard anymore.

[Realmfighter]

I for one appreciate that your countries military leaders are people too.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I think someone wanted him gone from his position for whatever reason, so they broke this to the press to have an excuse to get rid of such a high-ranking individual without suspicion.

[Zangi]

Its probably cause noone that received the complaints cared enough to do something about it while it stayed out of the media.  The captain obviously did a good enough job running his boat / keeping other things on the downlow despite the video complaints to not be smacked for the video.
Want Captain Videos out of his position?  Bring that into light and move him elsewhere over that.

Heck, if I was one of those people making decisions over in the military, I would not mind the 'unprofessional' quirks of my officers as long as they did their job and did it right.  That is, right up until civilian media starts gawking over it and putting things into question. 
Reassign him... whatever.  Wherever that is out of the light.

Didn't the start of the video or something say it was going to be offensive to someone?  Like a disclaimer notice?

[RedKing]

Meh, it's the government/military. As long as most people don't know what you did, you don't get punished. The moment it becomes a media item, you're toast.

Not that I am in any way condoning CPT Honors' conduct, but there are far more egregious actions that have gone unpunished, simply because they're not a big story.

[Zrk2]

I thought it had to do with Picard getting removed. This is dissappointing.

[Itnetlolor]

Heck, if I was one of those people making decisions over in the military, I would not mind the 'unprofessional' quirks of my officers as long as they did their job and did it right.  That is, right up until civilian media starts gawking over it and putting things into question. 
Reassign him... whatever.  Wherever that is out of the light.

So, I take it you're a supporter of Bunny Ears Lawyers?

[Rilder]

I for one appreciate that your countries military leaders are people too.

The Singularity hasn't happened. Yet.

[Zangi]

Heck, if I was one of those people making decisions over in the military, I would not mind the 'unprofessional' quirks of my officers as long as they did their job and did it right.  That is, right up until civilian media starts gawking over it and putting things into question. 
Reassign him... whatever.  Wherever that is out of the light.

So, I take it you're a supporter of Bunny Ears Lawyers?

*Resists clicking more links!*

And yea, sure.  I'll use the bunny ears lawyer if he is the Ace attorney...

EDIT:

Spoiler: Ulysses S. Grant (click to show/hide)

Ulysses S. Grant was a brilliant battle tactician and (supposed) drunkard who, after winning against Robert E. Lee and meeting him at Appomattox Courthouse to negotiate a surrender, showed up in his dirty uniform with muddy boots in contrast to Lee's perfectly arranged uniform, leading at least one spectator to comment that if you hadn't known better you'd thought the other guy had lost. (James Thurber's story "If Grant Had Been Drunk at Appomattox" has the hungover Union commander making this mistake himself and handing over his sword to the astonished Lee.) Lincoln also reportedly ordered his aides to find out what sort of whiskey Grant drank and send a case to every one of the Union generals.

    * The context is a group of Union officials attempting to oust Grant on the grounds that he was a drunk. Lincoln assessed him on the basis of his performance compared to the other Union commanders and facetiously concluded that if Grant's perpetual drunkenness was a factor the only logical step was for it to be prescribed more generally.
    * Two or three factual reasons actually lie behind this. Lee surrendering was the death of the Confederacy, so Lee showed up in his finery the way soldiers are buried in dress uniforms. After 5 years of long hard fought war, could you really blame Grant for wanting to hurry up and see it finally over?
    * Grant may also have been making a statement that his status as victor was higher than Lee's. The higher your status, the worse you can dress, and the better your subordinates must dress in your presence. So, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur wore an an open-collar shirt to meet with Japanese Emperor Hirohito after the surrender of Japan in World War II. MacArthur wore a similar shirt, and a dirty hat, when he met President Harry Truman on Wake Island to discuss the Korean War, and Truman may not have liked that, because it may have suggsted that MacArthur thought his own status was higher than Truman's. Truman wrote: "We arrived at dawn. Gen. MacArthur was at the Airport with his shirt unbuttoned wearing a greasy ham and eggs cap that evidently had been in use for twenty years." (President Harry S. Truman Handwritten note, November 25, 1950. Papers of Harry S. Truman: President's Secretary's Files)
    * Despite being cool as a cucumber during battles, riding up closer than generals were supposed to, with holes through his uniform from bullets (plus numerous horses shot dead as he rode on them) Grant could not stand the sight of blood. That's right-after each battle he retired to his tent and wept. Every steak he ate had to be devoid of blood or he would become physically ill.
    * A modern observer would label that behavior as PTSD, and given the horror of the Civil War I honestly don't blame him for crying at the sight of a battle.

He got the job done.

[Starmantle]

A kooky video of your commanding officer fishing a chocolate bar out of the toilet and eating it, then broadcasting it to the entire ship?...  That's pretty bad.

But the sexism and gay slurs repeated over and over again in the film... that's no okay for a commanding officer.

I'm quite glad they removed him, but I agree with the earlier point - he should have been removed sometime in the large gulf of time between when his superiors learned about this and when the media finally found out about it.

It seems to show a lack of decent judgment that goes all the way to the top.

[Zangi]

So in short:
Having a really drunk General commanding Union forces and even encouraging his behavior by sending the same brand of alcohol to other Union generals is ok.

Having a homophobe who makes crazy anti-gay videos and showing it around isn't.

[Duke 2.0]

 It's the Union, to not share alcohol with your subordinates is the same as making a video showing various anti-say slurs on a modern ship.

[Lord Shonus]

The overriding issue here is Good Of The Navy. Kicking him out prior to this would hav necessitated cause, which would have necessitated publicizing knowledge of the videos. I'm certain that he got the hammer dropped on him, and he was probably saddled with reports that would kill his career.

[Phmcw]

So in short:
Having a really drunk General commanding Union forces and even encouraging his behavior by sending the same brand of alcohol to other Union generals is ok.

Having a homophobe who makes crazy anti-gay videos and showing it around isn't.

Grant has been pretty close to be fired himself. Beside if your standard for officer date from the secession war, you may have a problem.
I remember the story of an allied general in 14-18 that led a major offensive on the point where the french and german trench were the closest. But without checking the elevation map. It was a cliff... you can guess how it went.
in short, pre WW2 officer were generally incompetent, you can't base an argumentation on them.