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Are We Overreacting to Capt. Honors' Explicit Navy Videos?

Capt. Owen Honors
US Navy
Capt. Owen Honors

Do you think the public, and the Navy, are overreacting to the controversial and now infamous videos made by Navy Capt. Owen Honors, which include gay slurs and simulated sex acts, among other things? The videos, which were made several years ago aboard the USS Enterprise, are expected to cost him his job as commander on the carrier. Virtually everyone thinks Honors stepped over the line with these videos, but some, including Time's Swampland blogger Mark Thompson, who has covered the Navy for 30 years, are coming to his defense. Thompson writes:

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