Navy To Relieve Capitan Owen Honors Jr. Of Command Temporarily While It Investigates Creation And Distribution Of Questionable Videos

Navy sources told NBC News Monday that the Naval officer who created and distributed puerile homophobic and racist videos ostensibly for the crew of an aircraft carrier is to be temporarily relieved of his command, likely as early as Tuesday. Capitan Owen Honors Jr. currently command the USS Enterprise and produced the videos in 2006 and 2007 while second in command aboard the aircraft carrier, and will relieved of duty while the Navy investigates, saying Sunday the video which contain a number of anti-gay scenes, was “clearly inappropriate. The Norfolk, West Virginia-based Enterprise was deployed in the Middle East at the time the videos, broadcast over the nuclear-powered ship’s closed circuit television system, and is in fact weeks away from being deployed again. Some sailors who served onboard the Enterprise have taken to Facebook to defend Honors, portraying him as a high-ranking officer who sincerely cared about his crew and only wanted to help them decompress during the six-month tours of duty in the Middle East at the height of the Iraq War, and boast unit morale.