Army paratroopers allegedly appeared on gay porn Web site - Gannon?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-porn29.html

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Army officials are investigating allegations that members of the celebrated 82nd Airborne Division appear on a gay pornography Web site, a spokeswoman said Friday.

Authorities at Fort Bragg have begun an inquiry into whether the paratroopers' actions violated the military conduct code.

Division spokeswoman Maj. Amy Hannah declined to say how many paratroopers are involved or identify their unit within the division. A defense official speaking on condition of anonymity said up to seven soldiers are involved.

Hannah said soldiers questioned will be allowed to seek legal assistance, but she declined to say if anyone had been charged.

[tanyev]

1. Gannon's new, hotter, younger competition.

[CarPayDUm]

2. Gannon???

How do you know WHAT political party they belong to?

[trumad]

3. We're pretty good here at DU about those things...

Oh and by the way--welcome. :eyes:

[HeeBGBz]

4. Did anyone mention a political party?

I guess I missed that somewhere.

[CarPayDUm]

7. See answer #5...

[HeeBGBz]

9. See post #4.

Which came before post 5 or 6.

[Contrary1]

12. I'm post #12...

someone took a wrong Left turn.

[HeeBGBz]

15. I think so too

IMO

[CarPayDUm]

13. Yes

I was responding to post #4....

[HeeBGBz]

14. I'm aware of that

[CarPayDUm]

8. See answer #6...

[Frank Cannon]

5. There's only one military pornographer I'm aware of

And it is the arch-Republican Jimmy Jeff Guckert-Gannon.

[HeeBGBz]

16. I have this sudden image from your post

Cartoon-like. By day mild-mannered reporter. By night, arrayed in spandex super-garment with a big G on the front. Fighting democracy with his secret weapon - the Gannon cannon power penis, which has a significant bend to the right.

[SpiralHawk]

6. Some things are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN

So if we are discussing corruption or perversion, and we examine the historical track record, there is only one TRUE CONCLUSION: They are Repubes.

GUILTY OF REPUBLICANISM UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.

You are very welcome.

[Touchdown]

19. In this case, you're wrong.

I've done business with the guy, and he's never made a political statement that I'm aware of.

[dsc]

10. This actually happens quite often

Probably the majority of these men are straight and just posing for money. Usually these sights have them jacking off and stuff like that. In the 1980's there was a whole series of films featuring Camp Lejune Marines. It was a big scandal. But when you have young, goodlooking, inshape men with a need for money concentrated in one place you shouldn't be surprised when a number of them take that way out.

[FreedomAngel82]

25. Right

Where money is concerned sometimes people will do anything including having sex with the same sex or posing for the same sex and not be that way themselves. Funny how money is eh?

[chat_noir]

11. Becoming Gannon

http://ancapistan.typepad.com/photos/becoming_gannon_photos/index.html

http://ancapistan.typepad.com/photos/becoming_gannon_photos/norquist_hahn_frss.html

http://ancapistan.typepad.com/edit/

[UncleSepp]

17. Maybe someday this won't be news

Maybe someday, young men enjoying (and profiting from) being young and healthy and good-looking won't be worthy of a mention. Maybe I'm a hopeless idealist, but... maybe someday.

[Touchdown]

18. It's not Gannon.

It's a website run by Dink Flamingo. It's called Active Duty .com. It mentrioned Fayetteville NC. I 've been to that site. Not going to link to it, as it's a porn site, but much of the soldiers who perform on video are gay, and some are straight and do it for money. Many of them have come back from Iraq. This is prevalent across the country where there's a concentration of military bases, especially in San Diego, where there's a cottage industry of marine/sailor porn statrted by a pornographer named Dirk Yates.

Considering how little we pay them for serving us, it's inevitable, and will continue until we provide decent pay.

[leftchick]

20. Dirk Yates? aka: Dirk Diggler?

:shrug:

[Touchdown]

21. Yates is real. Diggler is a character.

Yates never appears in front of the camera, and he's a better director than PT Anderson (who made Boogie Nights and that 3 hour root canal, "Magnolia" :puke: )

[leftchick]

22. I was just kidding

I have no clue about the porno world.

[Touchdown]

24. I know you were kidding.

:D

[FreedomAngel82]

23. Gannon isn't a real military person

I remember when that was going on people discovered he wasn't a military person and he lied about it.

[im10ashus]

26. WHAT?

My nephew is in the 82nd Airborne. I know a few of his friends there too. They JUST got back from Iraq! That would just blow my mind. :wow: