Navy officer to lose ship command over raunchy videos

A HIGH-RANKING Navy officer who produced and showed raunchy videos to the crew of an aircraft carrier three or four years ago was expected to be relieved of his command of the ship last night, defence officials said.

A senior defence official said the announcement on Captain Owen Honors of the USS Enterprise was expected. The officials said the Navy has chosen a commander to replace Honors on the nuclear-powered ship that is stationed in Norfolk and scheduled to deploy to the Middle East this month.

The offending video shown in 2007 became public over the weekend, proving an embarrassment to the Pentagon.