Blue Angels dived into porn, homophobia and harassment, study says
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[quote](CNN) -- One of the nation's most prestigious teams of flying aerobats dive-bombed into the depths of sexual harassment and stayed there for at least a year, a new Navy study says.
Under the command of Capt. Gregory McWherter, members of the Blue Angels openly passed around pornography and flew with it in their cockpits during airshows. They cursed gays and spread dirty talk about women.
Their chauvinistic behavior turned the squadron into a hostile workplace, a Navy investigation into the shenanigans said. And McWherter not only tolerated them; he set examples of bad behavior and animated those under his command.[/quote]
[url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/04/us/blue-angels-chauvinism/index.html?hpt=hp_t2]source[/url]
They're navy what do you expect?
[QUOTE=Saxon;45003677]They're navy what do you expect?[/QUOTE]
Weird that they cursed gays though, the Navy is mostly seamen.
People in the military being humorously crude.
Oh no when did this start how did we fall so far
Honestly how is this in the news?
Looks like someone didn't like DADT being killed.
Or it was Tuesday in the Navy.
Did somebody say [url=http://i.imgur.com/uDTQlSQ.jpg]Blue Angels porn[/url]?
[QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;45003911]Did somebody say [url=http://i.imgur.com/uDTQlSQ.jpg]Blue Angels porn[/url]?[/QUOTE]
Oh baby look at the chassis on her.
[QUOTE=evilweazel;45003719]People in the military being humorously crude.
Oh no when did this start how did we fall so far[/QUOTE]
They're a rather public part of the military.
[QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;45003911]Did somebody say [url=http://i.imgur.com/uDTQlSQ.jpg]Blue Angels porn[/url]?[/QUOTE]
I'd go into an inverted 4G dive with [I]that[/I]!
For some reason in my head i read the article thinking it was talking about the blue man group and was seriously confused
[QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;45003911]Did somebody say [url=http://i.imgur.com/uDTQlSQ.jpg]Blue Angels porn[/url]?[/QUOTE]
her right hand's fingers are broken
[QUOTE=Dr. Doughnut;45004230]her right hand's fingers are broken[/QUOTE]
In a bit of a painful position if there's much weight being put on them, but not broken.
[quote]McWherter was not the first to introduce lewd practices to the squadron, but he no longer clamped down as much and sometimes participated.
Pornography had made its way into the squadron around the time the captain's first command ended, the investigation said.
"Both male and female crew chiefs cut out and placed the pornography in the cockpits," it said.
During the investigation, the practice was cited by some witnesses as "motivational." It was seen as a way of building trust among team members.
Most of the pictures were depictions of naked women.
Crew members who objected could complain and opt out, but some felt under pressure not to do so, the review said.
Eventually, tensions over the pictures rose, and McWherter asked two female team members for their opinion, the investigation said. They told him they would feel more comfortable if the photos used were of women in bikinis and not nudes.
McWherter complied.
But eventually, he received an anonymous letter complaining about that practice, too, and he canned it -- but reportedly not without complaining to team members about someone having sent the letter.[/quote]
How terrible...
[QUOTE=Jund;45004336]How terrible...[/QUOTE]
And now they just hang up photos of women wearing non-revealing business suits.
Jesus Dick, CNN Shouldn't take a look in the average Marine barracks. I can guarantee you they are 100x more raunchy then the Blue Angels.
Fat Albert was the Raunchiest of them all though
[QUOTE=antair;45003731]Honestly how is this in the news?[/QUOTE]
cnn
[quote]Their chauvinistic behavior turned the squadron into a hostile workplace, a Navy investigation into the shenanigans said. And McWherter not only tolerated them; he set examples of bad behavior and animated those under his command.[/quote]
[video=youtube;MFZG8KQJni8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFZG8KQJni8[/video]
This is the Navy. This is to be expected. Even the helmets of a particular SEAL unit came from the factory with pinups.
[IMG]https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/t1.0-9/r270/578092_528160350547562_228661188_n.jpg[/IMG]
armies are a bunch of frat boys in uniforms so that explains it. doesn't make them not kinda retarded though (who paints a massive dick on a fucking airplane hangar).
The "boys will be boys" logic in this thread
Porn isn't a big deal but harrasment definitely is. Doesn't matter of you're military, that shit isn't ok.
[QUOTE=demoguy08;45005197]The "boys will be boys" logic in this thread
Porn isn't a big deal but harrasment definitely is. Doesn't matter of you're military, that shit isn't ok.[/QUOTE]
The article didn't really mention anything about sexual harassment, unless it was referring to the pictures in the cockpits as harassment.
Well there was this
[quote]A Facebook photo of a female enlisted member of the squadron in a bikini turned up in the Ready Room, and McWherter did not object to it.[/quote]
and
[quote]In 2014, a service member filed a complaint against McWherter for his lax handling of the harassing atmosphere during his command.
Navy investigators concluded that the former commander had allowed what may have seemed like juvenile behavior descend into a "toxic" atmosphere.[/quote]
and in a related article
[quote]A former commander of the elite Blue Angels is being investigated by the Navy for allegations that he tolerated a work environment that violated military policies against sexual harassment, the Navy said in a news release Wednesday.[/quote]
[quote]The most recent Pentagon report on sexual assaults showed that there were estimated to be 26,000 incidents of assault and unwanted sexual contact in 2012, [B]and just over 10% of those were reported.[/B][/quote]
[url]http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/24/us/navy-blue-angels-commander/index.html[/url]
The bolded line speaks volumes. When you have a workplace atmosphere that tolerates degrading attitudes towards women, you're going to have people not taking action and speaking out against harrasment and assault because of group pressure. This is in part why these attitudes are problematic.
This is stupid as hell. 60 years ago the military was painting far more inappropriate stuff on the planes themselves...
This is one of the more SFW ones I found.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Bg1ZsSy.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Apache249;45005232]The article didn't really mention anything about sexual harassment, unless it was referring to the pictures in the cockpits as harassment.[/QUOTE]
i think you might want to read that again. its like right there on the first line
[editline]5th June 2014[/editline]
its not about the porn, its about the fact that they started harassing the female squad members and even passing around photos of them taken from facebook (bad idea to put those there BTW) and the commanding officer actually encouraged that kind of harassing attitude
If you're trying to build team morale or unity and you plaster photos of nude women around, and there are women in your team, how does that make sense? If it were nude photos of men and women then I can see the argument(something for everyone on the team).
Singling out women for objectification just divides the team. It's like saying all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Something tells me people view them as some sort of demigods or something for this to be news..
[QUOTE=Falchion;45005140]who paints a massive dick on a fucking airplane hangar[/QUOTE]
Probably not the most [URL="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/F2H-2_of_VF-62_on_USS_Wasp_%28CV-18%29_1952.jpg"]outlandish thing[/URL] painted on to something by the Navy.
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;45004415]And now they just hang up photos of women wearing non-revealing business suits.[/QUOTE]
Official navy-approved titillation image:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/3GuIJmK.jpg[/img]
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