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   Even the U.S. Navy is abandoning Bill Cosby.   
      
   The Navy announced Thursday it is revoking Bill Cosby's title of   
   honorary chief petty officer because of multiplying allegations   
   of sexual abuse going back decades and recently reignited.   
      
   Word came in a joint statement by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and   
   Master Chief Petty Officer Michael Stevens.   
      
   "The Navy is taking this action because allegations against Mr.   
   Cosby are very serious and are in conflict with the Navy's core   
   values of honor, courage and commitment," the statement said.   
      
   It's one more hit for the entertainment icon, and possibly one   
   of the more painful for him.   
      
   The Associated Press reported Cosby enlisted in the Navy in 1956   
   and served four years as a hospital corpsman before being   
   honorably discharged in 1960 as a 3rd Class Petty Officer.   
      
   The honorary title was presented to him in 2011, although the   
   press release about that on the Navy's website has since   
   disappeared.   
      
   Cosby has been accused by nearly two-dozen women of drugging and   
   sexually assaulting them in decades past. Other than angry   
   denunciations from his lawyer, Cosby has declined to say much in   
   response.   
      
   He has not been charged with a crime and may never be because of   
   the statute of limitations, but the impact on his career, image   
   and philanthropy has been profound: Performances have been   
   cancelled, a planned new TV show was cancelled, and he's   
   resigned from the boards of colleges and universities associated   
   with him.   
      
   On Tuesday, he was sued in civil court by a woman who claims he   
   molested her at the Playboy Mansion 40 years ago when she was   
   15. On Wednesday three more women went public to accuse him of   
   sexual abuse as their lawyer demanded he agree to be sued so   
   that the truth or falsity of the allegations can be established   
   in a court of law instead of the court of Twitter.   
      
   Not everyone commenting at the Navy's website approved of its   
   action:   
      
   "I don't understand, for the life of me, how the Navy could do   
   such a thing! It would be totally understandable if the evidence   
   presented itself, and it was found that he was guilty as   
   charged. From my understanding of the situation, these are   
   nothing more than allegations for now. Nothing has been proven,   
   otherwise," wrote Chuck Swoboda.   
      
   Someone on Twitter made another point:   
      
   Stephen Watercress @PrinceWatercres   
   Follow   
   The Navy will revoke Bill Cosby's honorary CPO title amid   
   accusations of rape, but do absolutely nothing when   
   servicemembers do the same.   
   11:47 AM - 4 Dec 2014   
      
   http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/12/04/navy-   
   revokes-cosbys-honorary-title/19899113/   
      
        
      
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