Greetings and Happy New Year. By now you've probably heard how some Internet Videos have triggered "career-interruptus" for U.S. Navy Captain Owen Honors, who was recently awarded prestigious command of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.

Unfortunately for the Captain, a series of extremely "raunchy" videos entitled XO Movie Night -- produced and shown on board the Enterprise around the 2006-2007 period, and featuring then first officer (executive officer - "XO") Owens -- have been revealed and widely disseminated on the Net.

It is being reported today that Captain Owens has (at the very least) lost command of the Enterprise as a result.

Aside from the obvious "never assume videos will stay private" aspects of the Internet that this situation illustrates, there's an oddity worth exploring in the videos themselves.

In scene after scene, a strange and colorful "parrot" of some sort appears, often specifically featured in the footage with Owens -- rather bizarre, indeed.

However, I'm pleased to reveal all regarding this bird -- straight from the parrot's mouth in fact -- in a two minute video, including an actual "parrot demo" no less!

The Navy's Raunchy "XO Movie Night" Parrot Revealed!
[YouTube] (~2 minutes)

A live link to some of the actual XO Movie Night videos is available in the description text of my video at YouTube.

Anchors Away!

--Lauren--