USS Kitty Hawk limits movies after complaints

[unhappycamper]

USS Kitty Hawk limits movies after complaints
By Allison Batdorff, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, November 16, 2007

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Now showing on the USS Kitty Hawk: fewer rated-R movies.

The captain of the Yokosuka-based aircraft carrier shifted internal programming last week due to complaints about gratuitous violence, gore and racist language in several movies shown aboard the ship, which is at sea.

Crewmembers gave the action mixed reviews.

Stars and Stripes received several anonymous e-mails from crewmembers saying they were being shown cartoons on the ship’s movie channels.

“We’re all adults here,” one sailor said in an e-mail.

Another pondered the increased likelihood of crewmembers going crazy if cartoons were all they could watch at sea.


Rest of article at: http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=50290

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

1. I remember my pa

telling me about one early 60s endless Mediterranean tour where all they had to watch was Doris Day and Rock Hudson in a spliced-up copy of "Pillow Talk."

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

2. self-delete

n/t

[Captain Hilts]

3. Dad said in the early 60s a sub needed a good supply of Beach Blanket movies. Sailors LOVED them.

He said he made captain because he got a freshly-released "Shane" for a cruise.

[LiberalFighter]

4. They are not providing movies to brainwash the crewmembers?

[NavyDavy]

5. what a bunch of wah wah!