HMS Vigilant; submarine booze cruise
Stars & Stripes reports on the UK’s HMS Vigilant, a submarine that has fallen under scrutiny after nine sailors tested positive for cocaine use and the commander and XO have been accused of fraternization with female crewmen. One sailor is said to have engaged in sex with a prostitute in a pool. All while they visited the United States to acquire some nuclear weapons;
The Daily Mail did some math on what the recent developments mean for one of the free world’s strongest deterrents to nuclear war: “Around 10 percent of HMS Vigilant’s 168-strong crew have either been kicked out, quit, are under investigation or have been removed in what is believed to be one of the biggest sex and drugs scandals to hit the Navy.”
The UK’s Sun reports that the sailor who paid a prostitute £120 for her time, then stole the money back. It happened in Kings Bay, Georgia;
The report reveals the Brit paid the sex worker £120, slept with her and then pinched the money out of her purse while she was getting changed.
Last night, a senior US cop accused other sailors from the Trident nuclear warship of lying to obstruct the investigation into the alleged theft.
He claimed the suspect’s crew mates gave a bogus name – Stephen Dwight – for their pal and claimed he belonged to HMS Valiant, a sub which hasn’t been in service for 23 years.
The hooker apparently reported the theft of her ill-gotten gains.
Category: Who knows
Wow… talk about a memorable shore leave – NOT!
HOOKERS AND BLOW AND NUKES, OH MY!
Thank you……*wipes coffee off the screen*
No, wait, the HOOKER calls and reports the theft of money from an illegal activity? That’s as brilliant as the Gal who called the Police to come test and see if some drugs she had just bought were real because she was worried that she had been ripped off, the Police showed up, tested it and assured her it was “Good Shit” as they confiscated it and arrested her.
I couldn’t make shit like that up if I tried!
She probably knows she’ll get a slap on the wrist but he will get screwed by calling the cops.
Since she’s not getting the money, now she’s getting revenge.
So he got screwed twice for the cost of getting screwed once. Sweet.
Just like any other business person. Walk out of a restaurant without paying the bill and the owner will also “get revenge”.
and no further customers from Her Majesties Silent Fleet or any others for that matter.
I’m still trying to wrap my head around a Georgia hooker taking pounds for the transaction?
Certainly, it’s going to make for a memorable cruise book, and some interesting ship’s log entries.
This is exactly why Chiefs and LPO’s drink.
+1
I guess the “lessons learned” by our Secret Service in Columbia didn’t filter down to the deck plate level…if you’re going to engage in illicit activity, don’t increase the odds of something going wrong
Monty Python … ’nuff said.
https://youtu.be/HtbKSXoueks
Is it true their is no cannibalism in the British Navy?
I didn’t no we stored some of the U.Ks nukes here in U.S.
Know not no (sorry).
we probably manufacture them.
Yes
They’re Trident D-5’s, IIRC.
Same missiles our boomers use, they just have 8 versus our 24.
Ah, the D-5. Turning the other guy’s missile silos into smoking holes in the ground since the Eighties.
Oops, *Nineties…
This is exactly why I joined the Navy over the other services. …But then none of it ever happened, and now I entertain the women at the bar with the story about me getting an LOA for painted a door, or “the closest I ever got to dying was the setting up the Mardi Gras bleechers, it was hell.” I mean, I sell them well, but they can’t compete with hookers, blow, and nuclear wessels.
Same boat-XO was boning one of the crew. CO was boning one of the crew.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4959934/HMS-Vigilant-officers-threatened-resign-affairs.html
I’m stunned! Stunned I say to find that men and women in a confined space for months on end would partake of such hanky panky. Who could have predicted this????
But they have strict no-touch regulations! How could it have happened???
He Pinched a hooker out of her hard earned money. Ok, thats just too low. Fry him, clown like that give the rest of us a bad name.
That’s what I was thinkin’. Burn a workin’ girl for her wages? That bozo needs to be beat severely about the head and shoulders with a cricket bat.
AS much as I realize that children may read the newspapers and find stories like this by accident or diligent searching, I think it is FAR past time for reporters to stop using euphemisms for sex.
Otherwise, I feel compelled to ask how, if the sailor was sleeping, was he able to retrieve his cash from the hooker’s purse? Was he pretend-sleeping? Or was he sleep-stealing?
This prissy preciousness must stop posthaste! And furthermore, that sailor owes that hooker money. She’s a working girl and what he did was just plain mean.
Sounds like the CO was not “VIGILANT” enough to keep things under control, as he himself was out of control. When I was in, The Brits did have rum rations aboard their ships.
Fish rot from the head
Seems to me the entire Brit nuke fleet is going to feel some serious pain for a while, and already has, starting with command sweep urinalysis for all their boomer crews.
The best thing about using the submariner’s traditional and time tested alternative to indulging in hanky-panky with a shipmate is to the best of my knowledge having a fling with a “patrol sock” does rate one’s indiscretion making the news…
Unless you’re a Republican, in which case you’ve committed a microaggresion racist cultural appropriation.
Not sure how, but it sounds like what the whiny little bitches would say.
They should have stayed with “rum, buggery, and the lash”. Coke, cis-gendered relations, and counseling doesn’t seem to cut it.
UP PERISCOPE and keep your torpedo, I mean rocket in your pocket.
Call Blimey love a duck.
It could be worse…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14971198
At least no one died on this latest adventure.
The world’s most consistently successful military force since the Roman legions was pussified back in the ‘90’s. Here is the result.
The city councilman in this story did have guts, though!
I find it interesting that all who pissed hot were summarily dismissed posthaste. No long, drawn-out process.