Navy Love
No sex please, we're in the navy
By Shannon Deery and Sharri Markson
June 01, 2008 07:45am
SEXY TV drama Sea Patrol has been slammed by former sailors who say its raunchy storylines are making a mockery of the navy.
Naval Association of Australia president Les Dwyer has accused the popular Channel 9 show of undermining one of Australia's proudest institutions.
The Australian Navy TV Loveboat series.
Mr Dwyer - who served 44 years in the RAN rising to the rank of Warrant Officer - says the program is an insult to navy personnel.
Series two of the popular show has seen increasingly steamy scenes aboard the fictional patrol boat HMAS Hammersley.
One storyline has the characters played by Gold Logie winner Lisa McCune, Ian Stenlake and Ditch Davey in a love triangle.
Now navy stalwarts have questioned the RAN's five-year deal with the show's producers, giving it access to ships, personnel and equipment, library footage and technical advice.
"It makes a mockery of the incredible lengths that the navy and Department of Defence have taken to ensure that interpersonal relationships are kept at a professional level," Mr Dwyer said.
"The reality is some of it is absolutely absurd."
A spokesman for Defence Force Recruitment - the agency responsible for ADF recruits - admitted the series exaggerated the sexier side of the profession.
While Sea Patrol was part of a wider recruitment strategy to target people aged 17-24, the spokesman said the show did not reflect the realities of life at sea.
"It's a dramatisation and it glamorises certain elements," the spokesman said.
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He said the RAN had a strict no-fraternising policy and employees were required to report romantic affairs to their supervisors.
A navy spokeswoman said the RAN was perfectly happy with Sea Patrol.
from:
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23791857-10229,00.html
www.defencejobs.gov.au/navy/
posted by 10 men at 8:42 AM
2 Comments:
Sea patrol hasn't done as well as they hoped it would, for me at least. When i first saw it, it seemed alright, but i thought they could blow up a lot more shit, kick some bad guys asses and things like that. But that's all too simple and not nuanced enough for todays latte crowd i suppose. When it first came out there was another program called The Unit out of the US, that was kick ass, except the bits with affairs and what not, good guys kicking bad guys in the crotch, blowing shit to smithereens, heehaw. So i ended up comparing Sea Patrol to it and it failed to live up to it. Unfortunately this is the society we live in, sex is what sells and that's about all that enough of us want.
Thanks MK
I've only seen it once and that was about some kids that hid on an island and they had to find them ho-hum.
Somehow we need to get (kick-ass) back into fashion.
Maybe explosions costs too much and is bad for the environment?
Not to mention letting the main gun on the patrol boat fire a bit, it might get rusty or something otherwise.
Being the love boat maybe that's where they stash the condoms. In the barrel!
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