Navy seeks to discharge sailor found asleep in bed with another male sailor

[PoliticAverse]

Source: Washington Post

To hear Navy Petty Officer Stephen C. Jones tell it, what happened in his bedroom one night last month was purely innocuous: Another male sailor came by to watch "The Vampire Diaries," and they both dozed off in the same bed. "That is the honest, entire story," Jones said.

Navy officials, however, have a different view of his bedroom behavior at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, near Charleston, S.C. Even though there is no evidence the 21-year-old sailor committed any hanky-panky or that his friend was not permitted to visit, Jones has been charged with dereliction of duty. The Navy is seeking to discharge him, a move that he is contesting.


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[Arctic Dave]

1. Good luck with that.

A guy I knew got booted because of a driving ticket. Not from the navy but from the NNPTC.

[driver8]

2. In the Navy, you are guilty until proven innocent.

At least that's how it was when I was in. I was in the Nuclear Power program -- they kicked guys out left and right for anything!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. The Navy obviously have time on their hands worrying about silly things

instead of protecting the country.

[The Doctor.]

15. That gives me an idea on how to balance the budget.

Cut defense spending by 10% starting with the Navy.

[mike_c]

24. TEN percent? I'm hoping for 80 percent....

And we'd STILL have one of the most bloated military budgets on Earth!

[Archae]

4. Two words:

Tailhook

USS Iowa

'Nuff said.

[cartach]

5. Times have changed.

They used to call sailors "hairy arses" many,many years ago and no one thought twice.

[onager]

20. Also..."pogey bait"

I was in the superior branch of the Navy Dept - the Marine Corps - but we used a lot of navy slang.

Pogey bait = candy

Pogue = old slang word for homosexual

The etymology is obvious.

OTOH, a "housewife" in the Marine Corps is...a sewing kit.

[Beartracks]

6. Boy, I feel safer already!

I am SO glad the Navy has priorities. :patriot:

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[The Second Stone]

7. If neither was on duty, and it appears not

and they both actually napped in the same place, that isn't a dereliction of duty. It's two guys napping. Adequate punishment is razzing by their peers.

[quakerboy]

26. Adequate punishment

is having watched the vampire diaries.

[laconicsax]

8. Has no one considered the possibility that the charges are a reflection of his taste in TV shows?

:hide:

[joshcryer]

9. w/e The Vampire Diaries is pretty good.

Best show on CW after Supernatural. :P

[speltwon]

10. Two words: Nina Dobrev

And the men are hawt too. ...

I am pretty sure there is a decent storyline in there too :)

[joshcryer]

16. More blood and guts than True Blood, if you can believe it.

True Blood focuses on nudity and being campy and stupid.

[speltwon]

17. I like both. I don't have HBO

so I watch True Blood when each season comes out on DVD. My main issue with True Blood is the main vampire guy (can't recall his name) is an awful actor imo. The role is just waaaaaaaaay too affected, imo. I lurv Anna Paquin though, and I like the gay drug dealer character, his sister the waitress, and the guy who owns the bar. I'm bad with names :)

[joshcryer]

18. Yeah I like both too.

I think it's interesting that a teen-oriented show on CW has more death and violence than an adult-oriented show on HBO, is all. :)

I watch both shows online.

[speltwon]

19. otoh, True Blood showed some serious nekkid Anna Paquin

and Vampire Diaries keeps em clothed, stylishly I might add, but actually pretty reserved in that respect.

[glowing]

11. I agree...

[reformist2]

12. Politics aside, his "alibi" is pretty funny.

[old mark]

13. K&R- First time in US Navy history that anyone has been suspected

of being gay!
It must be part of Obama's secret plot to do whatever it is the RWers think he is going to do!!!!11!

:eyes:

mark

[urgk]

14. Sometimes, I picture cartoons in charge...

...of everything. And then I don't have to understand things like this, where nobody with any real sense weighs the potential career-long contributions of this sailor over silly, antiquated, homophobic rules. I picture Napoleonic caricatures in stripes, catatonic at stainless steel desks, surrounded by piles of receipts for misspent tax dollars, whipped into a frenzy by some sort of ominously labeled "GAY ALARM" with a bright red, flashing bulb.

Wait until somebody tells them about the Greeks.

[No Elephants]

21. Has anyone repealed Reagan's EO banning gays from the U.S. military?

[BlueIris]

22. Awful. Not just the attempt to discharge (read: wreck a career) but that it all started

with an episode of The Vampire Diaries.

[FLPanhandle]

23. I tried that excuse way back as a teenage when caught by my girlfriends family

Didn't work then either.

[WatsonT]

25. Maybe he had a nightmare

But dereliction of duty is pretty serious.