ActiveDuty.com is a pornography company based in North Carolina, United States, that specializes in the production of pornographic movies featuring gay, straight and bi military men engaging in solo and gay sex acts. Dink Flamingo (a pseudonym) is the producer and director of the films.
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"Dink Flamingo," owner of the popular Active Duty Production company, branched out in 2007 to form a new video line with plot intensive porn headed up by Directors Mike Donner and iconic Jett Blakk. Steve Jerome is the Director Of Operations. Dink Flamingo is the Executive Producer and owns Dirty Bird Pictures.
Also an amateur line of videos directed by and starring Barrett Long. The series is Barrett Long's XXX Amateur Hour.
Dink Flamingo has spent much of 2008 expanding his company by either acquiring other web sites or creating new ones. These include:
My Straight Buddy My straight Buddy--purchased from a friend who filmed straight Marines at Twenty-Nine Palms, CA. The site includes reality-based videos of these men interacting with one another both nude and clothed.
XXX Amateur Hour--Dink Flamingo and Barrett Long teamed up to create this web site which mainly features Barrett Long is sex scenes with both veteran porn stars as well as new faces in an amateur setting. The layout and theme is that of a 1950's variety amateur TV show.
Sea Dog Photo--a large collection of original photography purchased from the author Steven Zeeland. The subject of the photographs are sailors from around the Bremerton, Washington area.
On January 27, 2006, Fort Bragg announced that it had become aware that some of the men involved in the website were from the 82nd Airborne Division. While neither Fort Bragg nor any of the news reports mentioned the name of the website, it is clear from the description of the website and the subsequent restriction of access on the Active Duty website, that the investigation is about the involvement of servicemen with Active Duty.
On February 24, 2006, Fort Bragg issued a press release stating that seven men were charged with violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice for the crime of sodomy and engaging in sexual conduct on a pornographic website.
The men were Spec. Richard T. Ashley, Pfc. Wesley K. Mitten, and Pvt. Kagen B. Mullen. All three were assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. Along with charges of sodomy, and accepting payment to have sex on camera, Mullen was charged with the crime of adultery. Aside from loss of pay, extra duty and other restrictions, the men will also likely be separated from the armed forces.
The investigation was reported on both the local, national and international press, including several gay media outlets. The local CBS television affiliate, WRAL-TV, provided news coverage of the investigation, as did of the national gay press media outlets.
Steve Ralls, a spokesmen for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, said that the organization has no problem with the Code's ban on pornography, provided that it is applied without discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.[1]
In May 2006 Pfc. Richard T. Ashley had pleaded guilty to sodomy, conduct considered detrimental to the Army and the unit, and drug use. He was sentenced to ninety days in prison, but given 15 days as credit.[2] The other accused men, some of which have not had their names released, have either not plead guilty or were given less punishments, although all of the men are likely to be discharged from the Army.
The other 4 accused men received non-judicial punishment under Article 15 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Army. Pfc. Wesley Mitten was sentenced to three months in prison for being involved in the website and for cocaine use.[3]
Pvt. Kagen B. Mullen who was 21, plead guilty to charges of conduct detrimental to the Army and use of marijuana, and not guilty to the charge of adultery.
He told a judge he received $7,500 for appearing in the pornographic scenes but did not perform homosexual acts. He was sentenced to 90 days in prison, a bad conduct discharge and loss of two-thirds (2/3) of his pay.