Senior Chief Dwight Newton relieved
Hack Stone and Bobo send us a link to the Virginian-Pilot story of Senior Chief Dwight Newton, who was the Chief of Boat aboard the USS ALBANY. It seems that Chief Newton pissed hot on a urinalysis test.
He has been charged with wrongful use of a controlled substance and making false official statements, the Navy said.
Newton has been reassigned to Submarine Squadron 6 pending disciplinary and administrative review. He had served as chief of boat, the commanding officer’s senior enlisted adviser, since October 2013.
He had 21 years of service. The article doesn’t mention which controlled substance was found in his body, but whatever it was, they probably found some traces of “dumbass” in there, too.
Category: Navy
21 years of service pissed away.
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Yep, the linked article says he enlisted in March 1992. So he either just went over 24 years or will be making it to 24 later in the month.
But I’m guessing that the appropriate Chief’s retirement ceremony with award of a career culmination Meritorious Service Medal are not in his future.
24 years down the piss tube. BMC Red Forman says “Dumbass.”
They will let him retire. Its hard to boot someone with over 20 years of service.
We had a guy get a DUI and wreck his car and they let him retire out. Unless its sexual assault he will retire because you can refute a hot piss test.
Did you read what I wrote?
Retirement, yes. But without ceremony or end of career award.
Perhaps even retirement at the next lower rank after it’s all said and done.
Yeah, I think he can kiss retirement as an E8 goodbye. Something about “last rank at which he served successfully”.
And while it probably won’t happen, there’s a small chance he won’t retire at all if his command wants to make an example of him, he ends up getting a court-martial, and he gets the wrong court-martial panel (or a truly hardass military judge) that wants to use him as an example.
CM would be the most likely route.
He’s likely served in other jobs as a Senior Chief, so may in fact be able to retire as one.
Navy is a little different in that it nearly takes an act of Congress to bust a CPO.
You’re right, but I have seen a CPO get busted to E-6 and retire… he was an instructor at the schoolhouse in Great Lakes, married to a LCDR NC type and was fooling around with a student. Got stupid and asked for a CM… student told all in court, they had cell phone records, etc. His escort to his trial was a newly frocked HMC… stupid was calling him a “wannabe” every morning and afternoon as the CM went on. On sentencing day, when the judge hammered him, the escort told him, “Shut the fuck up E-6 ****, you’re out of my Mess now!”
BTW, the missus was there in uniform… she dumped his ass really quick after it all was said and done.
Worst I saw was a guy who had been frocked to Chief but not yet promoted when he was banging one of his E-2s. CO busted him to E-5 since he was only wearing the uniform and not getting paid for it yet.
Ouch.
The act of congress is a myth but a good one.
My favorites are CPO’s that step on their crank who are frocked but not paid yet. They get the quick ride down to E-5
Hey, everyone – guess who’s back? If you guessed ‘ol fefe-forker himself, sign up for a gold star.
Where’s that DD214, bunni-boi? Did you send a copy to Jonn yet? Do you need “how to do that” instructions again?
Regarding how hard it is to boot someone with 20, you don’t have a clue. Why? You have zero pertinent experience – since you never made it through basic training.
Now, go home and get your (flashing) shine box!
And how about you don’t come back until you’ve proven you know sh!t from Shineola about the military – e.g., after you’ve sent Jonn proof you actually enlisted a second time and served.
Yeah, I kind of figured it was the “youngman rodeo” boy. Only a dipshit like him thinks he can actually fool people by using a moniker like Falton Hotiron and us not knowing who it really is.
Hey, brah, little fefe-forker, get a clue. When you say “Unless its sexual assault he will retire” is a no-go in every Courts Martial book I ever read. You won’t retire honorably if convicted of say, Murder, Adultery, Black Marketeering, and a few other assorted felony level offenses I won’t list.
So, have you mailed that new high speed DD214 to Jonn yet? It’s only a .62 cent investment for a pre stamped envelope.
Hurry up and let us know. The suspense is Killam me.
The suspense is Killam me as well, Claw.
What do these folks think they are Gainey?
😉
Hey Dickless Cockholster… still playing over at the Rump Ridin’ Rodeo there in Stillwater? Where’s the 214 that you promised to send to “clear things up, Dickless? Must be too busy rump ridin’ to send it off, huh, Brah?
Keep on sucking down that tubesteak with nutbutter, boy….
Refute a hot piss test?
And if you believe that, I’ve got this lovely bridge to sell you.
Based solely on my experience as a retired Navy Corpsman, the only positive urine tests that were successfully refuted were the result of chain of custody issues. That test, and I know from personal experience, is repeated at least once and often twice, if it is positive. I’ve never known of a positive test that was successfully refuted based solely on questionable test results. It’s a very reliable test. This SCPO is dumberndirt.
My C.O. and I had a test tossed in a court martial because we played a little loose with the rules. We did a 100% company urinalysis in order to drive the last nail in the coffin of a pothead that was already facing court martial. Judge said we can’t do that and tossed the positive. Turd still got 6 months and a DD
SHUT UP, BUNNY FART!! Where’s that DD214 you promised to show, o bunny fart of a booger-eating thumbsucker?
Figuratively and…literally.
If only we had one more Powerpoint meeting.
One more slide telling him not to do drugs. Just one more. Because I’m sure no one else ever told him drugs are bad…
Your daily dose of the dumbass…
Is this a case of test=positive=relieved or is there a formal inquiry of some sort before action is taken? (As for the false statement(s), I’m not sure whether that’s answering “No” to a signed form’s drug usage question or something else.)
Back many moons ago, if the offender wore khaki, they were off the boat pending either CO’s or Admiral’s Mast.
At that point, they’d warm a chair until their separation paperwork was done, then they’d be shown the door.
21 years, shot to shit. Hope it was worth it, COB.
Correct, at least in the mid-’80s at the height of Graham-Rudman an NCO who violated was out. There was a guy in the other OCS company, a former SF E-7, who supposedly came back positive from the first weeks’ golden flow in week 12 – and was promptly put in line to become a PFC… from one of the best in his class to disgrace in about three puffs.
Congrats, Dumbass.
He looks like he smoked something before he took that photo.
I hope they’re really sure on this one, because I’m having a helluva time believing it. My whole time in, I don’t think I ever saw anything resembling a shitbag senior chief, or any shitbags in general on the far side of the 20-year mark. Possibly because they can just retire when they stop liking the taste of Navy koolaid.
Poppy seeds will get you. They got someone I know who occupies a very lofty position (actually, the loftiest) in a major police department. That was years ago, but it did happen, and the guy is as straight and rock solid as they come. He might take an aspirin after a root canal. Might. So, it does happen. That’s why I asked the Qs I did above.
Do you know how many poopy seeds you have to eat to pop on a drug test more than you could possible consume
Well, John, that wasn’t true years ago. Poppy seeds were the source of the positive for the fellow I referred to and it was a poppy seed covered bagel. If the cutoff positive level has since been raised–and I assume that it has–then it wouldn’t be true today then, I would guess. I didn’t borrow or dress-up the story. It is true. I did fudge one part. The fellow is my brother in law.
Poppy seeds would cause a false positive when testing in the military first started, not anymore. False positives are rare. Occasionally you’ll get an opioid positive IF a Soldier has had an off post medical referral and a prescription that’s not in his military medical record, but that’s easily cleared.
Oh, they’re out there.
One gent was on my first boat. Good guy, but loved his booze. Fast forward a few years, and he was a Squadron CMC in SD when he got another DUI (his 3rd, IIRC.) What made it worse is there were a few of his fellow Master Chiefs who were more than willing to cover for him.
That didn’t end well for anyone involved.
Back in the day a LOT of stuff was swept under the rug when it came to senior enlisted screwing up. Not so much any more.
And Jonn, I don’t want to be nitpicky, but what the hell, I will be anyway. It’s Chief of THE Boat, not Chief of Boat.
What fantasy world are you living in the navy is full of shit bags past 20years and yes there are shitbag master and senior chiefs
Actually Jonn, Mustang is correct it is getting hard for them to stay past 20. Every E-7 to E-8 that has been in that pay grade for 3 years will have their record reviewed by a board based on performance and type of commands serving(so they are not just going across the street every 3 years) and will also have a criminal back ground completed on every member who is being reviewed. The board is know BS as unlike the promotion boards were it is done by community this is any one no matter what community they belong to can be reviewed by anyone.
The purpose of the board is to identify the ones that are hanging and avoiding operational billets (Seaduty) and on the road program and it is working.
They do this every year and same thing pull criminal back ground so if a guy got into trouble out of town and try’s to hide it and it will pope up.
So any one over 20 is under review unless promoted, but what I had herd the retention board is working well that they are going to use some of that for promotions i.e. pull background.
When the retention board started the first one was 2009 they only reviewed active E-7 and E-8 over 20 and more then 3 yrs. in pay grade but in 2010 all reserves and then 2011 opened to Master Chiefs. I do not know if they are looking at command Master Chiefs they talked about it, but don’t think they went there. It is working I have seen Master Chiefs that thought they were Bullet proof after 20 be forced to drop papers.
Had an E7 formerly in one of my units p!ss hot some time after he’d PCSed and reported in at his next unit. Wouldn’t have guessed it based on his conduct in my unit.
It’s rare to see this from senior folks, but it does happen on occasion.
Isn’t this the same guy?
Same Navy Portrait:
http://liarscheatersrus.com/dwight-newton-jr.html
Interesting.
Wow, dude thinks he’s a player… soon to be unemployed player.
Oops!
Yup served with the guy for a few years always cheating and taking drugs… drinking on duty… can’t believe it took so long to catch up to him. Also racist as can be.
I used to tell the boys: “I do not give a shit what you did before you got here and I do not give a shit what you do when you leave. But do not do it while you are here.”
Moron.
You guys need to lighten up a bit! He has honorable service, how do we know what went through his mind, what problems he may be facing.
Adultry?
See the post above.
“… how do we know what went through his mind . . . “
GMAFB. What was going through his mind? Apparently not very much if he was willing to risk flushing 20+ years of service, jail, and loss of pension for a little chemical fun.
Drugs in the military are a no go.
Period.
End of station.
Move on.
HAD.
Pretty much everywhere in the military is the expression, “10,000 attaboys, negated by 1 Aw, shit.”
The submariner version goes, “Fuck a thousand women and nobody cares. But suck one dick and you’re a faggot for life.”
Is that sarcasm?
WTF? Dude pissed hot on a UA… you do that, you get the dog shit hammered out of you, regardless of what uniform you wear or what rank you are. It’s been that way since the early 80’s and no admin board, Captain’s Mast or CM is gonna cut anyone slack because “he has problems, let’s give him another chance”.
Someone needs to go see a proctologist to get his cranium removed from his rectum…
Interestingly I see him referred to as:
STSCS(SS) Dwight J. Newton and Dwight Newton and this was also interesting….
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news03/drugs-forged-credit-cards-allegedly-found-during-raid-at-watertown-home-20150529
The Metro-Jeff Drug Task Force said it recovered heroin, crack cocaine and forged credit cards during a raid at an East Lynde Street residence early Thursday morning.
Dwight J. Newton, 31 , and Leigh A. Newton, 25, both residents of 207 E. Lynde St., were charged with two counts each of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Senior Chief Newton left COMSUBLANT to attend Senior Enlisted Academy and Command Master Chief/Chief of the Boat course in Newport, RI, from July to October 2013
Maybe a relative ?
He’s much older than 31. Son?
Doubtful. Were I to guess, I’d say he’s just under 45. Not likely he’d be a father at 13-14, or younger.
Way back in the day, when you could piss hot once and still recover career-wise, we had a Corporal pop hot. The standard was a reduction of one rank and thirty days confinement. He said he was innocent. Everyone always says that they are innocent. So the Marine Corps says he was positive. He comes back with no way, there has to be a mistake. Eventually, they cave in and confess and take their punishment, but not this guy. He was adamant that there was no wY he popped hot. The command starts thinking that maybe he is innocent. Let’s give him a polygraph, and if he passes, he walks. So they wire him up, and just as they are about to fire up the machine, he says “Well, maybe I did smoke some pot.” BAM! It’s hammer time. Go straight to court martial. Busted all of the way down to Private and six months in the brig. The moral of the story? If you fuck up, take your punishment like a man.
I’m surprised any controlled substance(s) could be detected with the massive amount of ‘I’m a dumbass’ floating around in his system. I knew an HM1 on Okinawa and an HMCS elsewhere who took drugs from the pharmacy. Both out the door. Uncontrolled stupidity.
The old debate over America, land of the best politicians money can buy.
I am waiting for someone to talk me out of my (by now boring) contention that the major difference between France in 1789 and the US now is that they had an aristocracy and we have a plutocracy – and I can’t see much of a difference. Been waiting for decades now…
apologies for the second post on a different page… Mozilla actin’ like Godzilla today…
We had NCO in a reserve unit pissed hot. The bad thing is that he also worked full time as a civilian for the unit. Not only did he lose his military job but also his full time position.
Someone thought his shit was pretty hot to let him be the COB as a Senior Chief. I guess they should have checked the piss to see if it was hot too.
I’m thinking maybe the next time DOD does a clearance background check they better have that cheater website in their favorites.
This guy is a serious disappointment.
There’s more than one test ran when you pop positive – the second one tells them what it was, and the third one tells the levels. He may or may not have had to give blood after the positive test, which further gives them info. I spent my last few working years as a program manager for my wing, and the chances of being able to refute it aren’t there now days. And all these “flushes” the twits try don’t do a bit of good with the new test – it will also show those results as well. Say goodbye to a career!
Knew an HM2 Medical Repair Technician who made 5 in just over 4 years. Real squared away guy. So I thought. Pissed hot, swore loudly and frequently it was from passive inhalation. CO gave him the option of passing a polygraph to rescue his career. Morning of scheduled polygraph he confessed. Went from HM2 to HN for his stupidity. The CO had discretion in the matter and he was allowed to stay in uniform. He was married with three young kids and that’s why the CO let him stay in. This was 30+ years ago. Most positive pissers were E1-E3 and they were not given a second chance. I never would have guess he was so stupid.
During my AD years in the early nineties pissing hot was a guaranteed ticket to a Field grade Article 15 with max punishment, E4 and below got a reduction to E1 with 45 and 45 with the maximum allowable loss of pay and a QMP discharge after that. NCOs received a loss of rank and discharge, there were NO second chances. I saw a couple of E4P’s lose what they had and a couple of NCOs smoked their way out of the Army.
Can’t forget about people who abuse prescription Drugs. Someone in his position could fanagle Oxycotin or other pain meds. Hes double screwed of he dd it through medical
Getting his meds from Doc?
And not getting it put in his medical record?
Not possible on virtually any level. When the boat is in port, crew goes to tender or base medical. Doc will still make sure it gets in medical record, even though PRP on fast boats isn’t as prevalent as it used to be.
And if Doc got caught, he’d be looking at Leavenworth, not just a mast and removal.
Every Operation Golden Flow I ever participated in administratively or as a contributor entailed asking what meds were currently being taken.
Armed Forces personnel are not supposed to go to private medical practitioners without authorization, but it happens. I’ve never seen anyone accused of wrongdoing if there was a valid prescription in the equation.
Of course, someone getting substances that conflict with them performing on any sort of special status, such as Flight Duty, Diving etc are responsible to not partake of substances that conflict with that status, prescribed or not.
This uniformed crack head ain’t getting off too easy.
I suspect there will other charges such as ‘hazarding a vessel’ et al, as to, to wit …
The penalties are bad for this kind of behavior.
It is safe to say, his career is over.
Now the only question is how much will he lose, I think much of it … if not all.
It is a sad day when a shipmate is tried and convicted in the court of public opinion after shoddy reporting. Since when does someone pop positive and get relieved before the substance in question is available to report? It is impossible that the substance or nature of a false statement is as of yet unknown. This incomplete reporting does not justify trashing the character of a Sailor serving honorably, leading Sailors on a warship, and nearing the end of a successful sea tour beyond retirement eligibility. Clearly the headline “Expired Navy Prescription Meds Derail Former Urinalysis Program Coordinator” would discredit the program more than the victim of its hypocrisy. Standing by for facts.