Posted on 01/17/2019 7:52:28 PM PST by Enlightened1
A US Navy submarine commander has been fired after he hired ten prostitutes to party in his hotel room.
Captain Travis Zettel, of the USS Bremerton, paid for the women while his submarine was on a “farewell” tour of the Philippines last March.
The commander is said to have bragged to two sailors at a hotel pool that he’d “ordered ten girls to arrive at the hotel,” according to the Kitsap Sun.
At the time the sub was docked at Subic Bay in the country.
One of the sailors then saw around ten “provocatively dressed” women outside the hotel entrance later that evening.
The commander’s boasting was then reported to Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents.
When confronted about the allegations, Zettel admitted to investigators he had paid for “female accompaniment”.
During the same tour, another sailor was seen with three “local females holding onto his arm as he was wandering around”.
A criminal probe was launched in May.
Zettel was relieved of his command in August last year after the Navy cited a loss of confidence in his command but did not go into detail for the reasons why.
He has now been reassigned to Submarine Squadron 19 at the naval base Kitsap-Bangor in Washington state but it has not been revealed what position he holds.
The other sailor spotted with the three women has not been named and did not face any disciplinary action.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Not in the Phillippines. Lol!
That was the crime.
If they had been male hookers, no problemo!
Anyone who was in the Navy would get it ...
Going to be in the Massive Women march this weekend?
SSN Bremerton was decommisioned in JULY of 2018. This article says he was relieved in August 2018...... how could he be relieved from a Sub in mothballs.
Only for the officers. If he had got some for the enlisted this never would have been brought up. Of course, maybe there was a female crewmember on the sub.
If he has a wife, she’s gonna be poor. If he doesn’t have a wife, he can’t afford one anymore. So, how do women gain? Stop with the man shaming. We’re on to these games now and teaching our sons, nephews, and young male co-workers.
You wanted equality, here it comes.
It does sound confusing, doesn’t it? But very little that is happening now makes sense.
If he’s married, I hope his wife didn’t honor their vows any more than he did.
At ease sailor.
If you loose confidence in the man, why do you send him to an SSBN/SSGN squadron? Those guys aren’t exactly slouches.
All things in moderation.
should be given a medal.
Its not like this was a Secret Service party in Columbia.
Aside from any moral issues (which it seems that most FReepers don't care about any more, even though those morals mostly have good bases behind them, founded on reason and experience that still apply), that's in itself a very relevant & practical comment.
From our side, the practical part of it includes costs of treatment, down time, etc., not to mention costs incurred if the low-life spreads these treatment resistant diseases around when he / she gets home. Plus, we have disappointed the host country we are working with. (Most of Philippines is still fairly conservative in these matters.) From the Philippines' side, they have requested our help in reining in the sex trades, we agreed to try to help, and a person in a position of moderate authority, a Commander of a US sub, surely aware of such wishes, has insulted and disrespected them. This is considerably different than if some drunk seaman hooks up with a prostitute...
He doesn’t have any time. He will have time when he gets out of the military.
Difficult for civilians to comprehend.
Liberty is always provisional.
I absolutely reported a rules infraction when I was over there nearly forty years ago.
Glad I reported it, unfortunately there wasn’t sufficient evidence to do anything about it.
No embarrassment about what I reported and I would do the same today.
Incident happened on “farewell” tour in March of 2018. I would assume the incident & Commander were being investigated through July/ August, so he was probably sort of “on hold” / suspended, until the investigation was completed and he was formally being given the boot. So, until then, maybe he was still technically the Commander of the sub. Ie., in name only. (I’m sure my terminology is all wrong.)
Perhaps one of our Navy vets can clear this up?
Oops, that should be “formally given the boot.”
It’s very late here...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.