It appears that a disgraced, retired U.S. Army colonel who led a "pup play" fetish ring that included junior officers while on active duty has surfaced as a sponsor for incoming midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
When we last encountered Colonel Brian T. Connelly, he was outed as the leader of a fetish group that you probably, and fortunately, did not know existed; see Army Starts Sham Investigation Into Bondage Fetish Colonel and His Friends Because They Think You're Stupid – RedState.
🚨Military Sickness Exposed🧵🚨
— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) December 9, 2022
Identity of @USArmy’s @PupRavage 🐶 is Col. Brian T. Donnelly (ret.) of INDOPACOM
Past @Mdarmyguard CO: 58th EMIB, 1100th TASMG
Posing in uniform w 🐶 mask👇
Engaged in 🐶-play sex w junior @USArmy officer - CPT Dayton Tenney, aka @adjutantpup pic.twitter.com/PlOzWBjQHM
Former @USArmy Colonel Brian Connelly, aka @PupRavage and his pup kink litter, decided to desecrate the @USNavy memorial as their puppy play ground pic.twitter.com/QnZkeCutDh
— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) June 15, 2024
Now he's back: sponsoring a Naval Academy midshipman.
FURRY🐶Colonel takes kink to @NavalAcademy
— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) September 29, 2025
US Naval Academy allows disgraced Col Brian Connelly (ret) to SPONSOR Midshipmen in Annapolis home🧵
Connelly -PupRavage, a pup-kink polygamist- accesses @NavyMSwim Mids, despite past sexcapades with JOs
📧Rose Clark: [email protected] https://t.co/O7U7pNZBot pic.twitter.com/jUSJ3mfqyo
According to the Naval Academy, sponsors "serve as mentors, sounding boards, and trusted friends, offering a glimpse of life outside the Academy walls. One of the great Navy traditions, these relationships frequently evolve into lifelong friendships and mentorships that transcend the years spent at the Academy."
I can't even...
There is even more creepiness.
Col Brian Connelly (still married to husband) promoted his illegal “pup” relationships with DoD junior officers - incl US Army Capt Tenney - while still on active duty
— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) September 29, 2025
DoD did NOTHING
Now Connelly has access to USNA midshipmen away from their families (2/4) pic.twitter.com/Zl04qjBnys
The part about the sponsored midshipman asking "how big is a 14-inch pizza" and "eating it all himself" seems to be a sexual innuendo more than pizzeria talk. But, of course, I could just be overreacting to entirely innocent banter because of the history of one of the participants.
For the record, I don't know Connelly. He might be a great role model, though, personally, I don't think any guy with a "husband" and who violated the prohibition against homosexuality at the time of his commissioning should be in contact with young men. What I do know is that he was engaged in a presumably consensual, and I say "presumably" because rank differential makes consent a very soft area, kink relationship with several junior officers. This was completely okay under Biden, but in previous iterations of military discipline, it would have been considered "moral turpitude." Also, the opening of his social media post: "My sponsored USNA midshipman, I didn't raise him," in the context of his kink history sounds sorta creepy. Putting him in a position of influence over a young midshipman seems to me to be unwise and not a great move for either the midshipman or Connelly.
Even though Connelly's Facebook and X accounts are private, there are people with access to those accounts sufficiently concerned about the situation that they are circulating the screen captures in this post. A reporter has started asking questions.
🚨DEVELOPING
— Mark Naughton (@MarkNaughton9) September 29, 2025
Puppy Kink Colonel Pup Ravage is taking in Navy Academy Cadets under his care
I’ve reached out to the @NavalAcademy for comment regarding Col Pup Ravage…
Waiting for reply https://t.co/jJC67vHsvL pic.twitter.com/hcDSa28ihr
Read the whole thread and make up your own mind.
If the military is going to clean up some of the rot that was forcibly injected under Obama and Biden and continued until Pete Hegseth became Secretary of War, then it needs to go back to the era of "zero tolerance" for moral offenses. This has to include adultery and all sorts of sexual weirdness. Without that moral foundation, no change is possible. It certainly can't allow a former officer known for inappropriate relationships with younger officers to become a sponsor for Naval Academy midshipmen.
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