Posted on 05/30/2015 8:37:47 AM PDT by pabianice
KINGS BAY NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE, Ga. — A submarine sailor was sentenced Friday to 15 days in a Navy brig after he pleaded guilty to failing to alert superiors when fellow crew member showed him videos of female trainees undressing for showers.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon McGarity was the third sailor to plead guilty this week to charges related to the secret recording of female officers and midshipmen aboard the USS Wyoming. His punishment also included a two-grade reduction in rank and forfeiture of two-thirds of his pay for a month.
McGarity, a missile technician, told the officer presiding over his court-martial Friday that he didn't know about any videos taken of officers. But he said one sailor showed him a cellphone video of midshipmen — students from the U.S. Naval Academy or college Navy ROTC programs — topless in the shower area of the submarine last spring. Another sailor, he said, borrowed McGarity's iPod and placed similar photos on it.
"I didn't go out of my way to look at them and I didn't ask for them," McGarity said. "I just tried to walk away."
According to the charges against him, McGarity's crime was essentially keeping his mouth shut. He failed to follow a Navy regulation requiring sailors to report misconduct. And he denied any knowledge of the illicit videos when the submarine's command staff questioned the entire crew in November after they were discovered.
"I already had a reputation in the division of being a narc," McGarity said.
Seven sailors stationed at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base on the Georgia coast have been charged in connection with the videos, which Navy prosecutors say were traded by sailors "like Pokemon" cards for energy drinks and other items. The case has been a blemish on the Navy's integration of women into the U.S. submarine force, which had been all-male until 2011.
...No witnesses were called during McGarity's court-martial Friday, but the four female officers who were recorded have said the videos either ruined or harmed their careers.
After this happened, I lost the trust of everybody," one woman testified during another sailor's hearing Wednesday. "I couldn't look anyone in the eye and know if they had seen me."
Petty Officer 2nd Class Charles Greaves was sentenced to two years in prison and a dishonorable discharge Tuesday when he pleaded guilty to recording female officers through a crack between pipes with a view into the shower area.
On Wednesday, Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph A. Bradley pleaded guilty to sharing videos of the officers. He received 30 days confinement and a reduction in rank.
Charges against four additional sailors are still pending.
They shouldn’t be out there naked in public then.
/sarc
Had he spied on men he would have been promoted.
Well, on the bright side, at least it was men filming women and not men filming men or women filming women.
Maybe he should defect and join Al Qaeda. The military brass would go easier on him.
That part of "don't ask, don't tell" is still in place...
most likely!
I’d give these guys medals for acting like men.
Are women on boomers yet? If so, think about it. If not at war, you have time off. What are you going to do with time off in a sub under the surface for 180 days. Well, the internet, some flix, and maybe some SCUBA. Then you get bored...
Oh, and what happens if one of those females get pregnant? Lets see, calculating the gestation period of a human...
5.56mm
At the conclusion of the Shellback initiation on an aircraft carrier (CV) in the late 70s, we were directed to strip off our filthy clothes, toss them overboard, and walk back to the berthing areas buck nekkid. CVs used to have a urinal on the starboard/protected side of the island for flight deck crews to use between launches & recoveries. Few minded their language, and women are who you slept with ashore, not who you had to tiptoe around while trying to do your job at sea.
Take males and females in their 20s. Seal them them in submarine for 3 months. What could go wrong?
Tsk tsk, doesn’t he know, it’s only OK to videotape men who are naked if the taper is a homo gay.
Naval warships are no place for women.
And we probably had a real man in the white house and many more in congress at that time. don’t look now.
During that deployment in ‘79-80, the second worst president ever (Carter) was occupying the White House. On the next deployment in ‘81, the best president of the 20th Century was serving as Commander in Chief (Reagan).
Didn’t these women ever watch “Starship Troopers” before signing up? :)
Before going off to BCT (in 1969) I was warned "don't drop the soap".However,I was never bothered,nor were any of the other guys,in spite of the fact that we were a fine looking bunch of recruits.That leads me to assume that nobody was bothered because nobody was a damn pervert.
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