Let's really get into the reality of this.
The XO was informed he could make one last video, he did. What he had done in the video was already worked out by the military. Since that time he was selected to go to nuke training school, given command of a vessel, then again promoted and made captain of the Flagship of a Carrier group. 5 years later, after the video had already been dealt with by the military it becomes public and due to political idiocy and people who think that people who are XOs should be perfect at all times decided that he couldn't work anymore because he called himself a "FAG" (BTW - In Naval Aviation Parlance FAG stands for, quoting here, "FAG: Fighter Attack Guy - an F/A-18 Hornet/Super Hornet pilot or naval flight officer ("NFO")") while speaking to his "alter ego" Aviation Guy and SWO-Boy when talking to his "alter ego" SWO (Surface Warfare Officer).
He played all three parts in the video, and this seems to be the part that gets all the attention in every talk radio show.
Just so you'll know I'm not making this crap up here is a Glossary of US Navy Slang.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:U.S._Navy_slang#F
I am disappointed that my Navy would go all weak-kneed and fire the most qualified person to lead that ACC Group into battle based on political nonsense that doesn't even take into account what the man meant.
Now that I have given my opinion of what has been done to Capt. Honors, let's get back to the "wasteful spending" making morale building videos that make officers more approachable in a small community ship that is isolated for up to 9 months at a time with only short stops between long isolation periods. We used to call air craft carriers floating prisons for a reason.
No, it isn't wasteful spending. Boosting morale is not "wasteful".