Royal Navy sub commander investigated
Tom Huxton sends us a link to BBC which reports that the commander of the British Navy’s submarine, HMS Vigilant, is under investigation for conducting an inappropriate affair with a female sailor in his crew. The article states that women were allowed to serve on subs beginning in 2011.
Since then, a few dozen women have undergone specialist training to serve on board Royal Navy submarines.
All Royal Navy vessels have a “no touching rule” that prohibits intimate relationships on board, but the Navy takes a particularly harsh view when it might affect the chain of command.
In 2014, the first female captain of a Navy warship – HMS Portland – was removed from command after she was found to have breached strict rules on relations with a member of her crew.
I guess the English language inspires lechery among military officers.
Category: Who knows
Who (besides me) could have foreseen this?
Being a dumbass transcends national boundaries.
It ain’t just the English-language folks.
We all, at various stages of life, tend to be drawn to such activities. Formal safeguards/rules/externally-applied standards are no match for lust.
Sexual libido has neither a conscience or any thoughts of consequence.
As they say, there’s only enough blood to properly have one head function, at any one time.
😀 😉
I didn’t know women had two heads.
Well sometimes they *act* like they do.
/*RUNS*
:O
Just don’t jump in my foxhole for cover.
[Restraining any comments about Hydra – which, although not human, was considered to be female.]
Wow–lock up a hundred guys and a couple of women in a metal tube for a couple of months and this happens. Who would’ve thought?
I always heard that wit a tube, I mean Submarine, 150 Sailors go down and 75 Couples come up regardless!!!
They either have to even out the numbers or do what they used to do. Oh, wait, that didn’t work, either.
You can put all the rules you want in place, but it won’t blunt the force of human nature. Unfortunately, a few bad eggs make the rest of us look bad, even if we aren’t.
He is the victim here. She took the “down periscope” command a bit too far. She was probably flaunting her dive abilities in the head. People who have never been to sea have no idea how many times we are ordered to “make a hole”.
So Bubble boy got his wick wet, whats the big deal? Captain Picard was banging the ships doctor, nobody cared about that.
The Soviet is constantly wanting me to set my depth to unrealistic expectations. I bet this woman wasn’t pleased with Captains Mast…a little more down bubble and she probably would have kept her mouth shut.
Hope they boot the hoe out before she sucks another career in the shitter.
“All Royal Navy vessels have a “no touching rule” that prohibits intimate relationships on board…” Does that include faggery on the high seas? (smile)
Seriously though, this is what happens when young men and young women are in close quarters for long periods of time. Not saying it should happen, just stating what nature does all on its own.
“All Royal Navy vessels have a “no touching rule” that prohibits intimate relationships on board…”
Which Sailors will translate to “Just don’t get caught.”
Ahhh yes, let the powers to be continue to put women into positions where having more than one sex – be it female, someone who thinks they are female, or someone who thinks they are a male, and they are young enough to have raging hormones, or old enough to be stupid and believe their rank makes up for not being the stud they used to be, and we shall continue to have these problems.
Its not all bad news, having women around does have a positive effect too.
Women make all military units better.
I guess up Periscope and Torpedo mean something in this case.
“I’m not touching you, I’m not touching you…”
Yep that’s gonna work…idiots.
It never ceases to amaze me that when one of these situations occurs, it is never considered that the lower-ranking partner may have been using seduction to favor-seek from the superior.
I know, I know, it is the superior, especially a ship’s captain, who bears command responsibility, who is always ultimately responsible in the military but seriously, why do we always assume he used his rank to obtain sexual favors when it could very well be the other way around with the subordinate seeking and willing to trade sexual access for favorable treatment?
We never get to see the subordinate partner but I’m fairly sure she’s no skank, not when a senior officer is willing to risk his career to get a piece of her. And you can’t chalk it up to beer goggles while underway. But we can only guess as we never get to see the “victim.”
This is fitting anthem for the submariners:
Things were working well until the clap got passed around.
Someone way smarter than me put it this way:
(Holds hands six inches apart) Deterrence always fails by -this- much.
Oil those torpedoes down.
You guys done whining about some gaucho getting caught with his fly unzipped again? Nonworking zippers can always be replaced, y’know.
Well, like Nancy Reagan used to tell us, you could “just say no”. I know, I know. That’s a foreign concept. You can’t say “no” to beer and brats, either, which explains why you’re all as fat as whiskey barrels.
You’ve been here four hours and haven’t solved the problem yet. Please go cry in your beer some place else. I have other whiners to listen to and the bar closes at 1AM.
Takes two to tango, though.
The boys don’t listen when told “Keep yer pecker in your pants.” But the girls don’t listen when told “Keep your knees together.”
The problem has existed for thousands of years.
As Will Rogers said:
“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
OH, fiddle. You guys would complain if they hung you with a brand-new rope. 🙂
::snicker::
Last call for alcohol
All he did was give her a “jolly good going over”.
So hot, want to touch the hiney!
General Order #1: No touching the hiney
“That wasn’t a hiney.”
Apparently Limey sub captains have difficulty with torpedo accountability too.