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    Dozens of sailors caught doing hard drugs on Britain’s nuclear submarines

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    8. Pink_Flying_Pig_ on

      Whaaaat???

      Wasn’t living in a cabin with military rules anybody’s dream??? 

    11. LieverRoodDanRechts on

      Hahahaha, soldiers doing drugs is the worst kept secret in European militaries. I was a taxi driver in the Netherlands and I’ve seen some shit.

      As long as they do what they’re supposed to do when they’re supposed to do it, I guess.

    12. akwayah on

      Can someone explain how this is in any way shocking or different from infantry in world wars using ket in the trenches

    13. CrispyDave on

      Credit where it’s due, you need some discipline to maintain a hard drug habit when you live on a submarine.

    14. -AngelOfTheNorth- on

      That’s pretty concerning. If drugs are able to be smuggled aboard a nuclear sub, surely other stuff could be getting onto the subs too? I could be reaching here but if security is this lax, what’s to say that foreign adversaries aren’t smuggling devices aboard subs to track/neutralise them?

    15. we_are_all_bananas_2 on

      So we sailed on to the sun

      ‘Til we found the sea of green

      And we lived beneath the waves

      In our yellow submarine

    18. ledow on

      I would expect this to a certain extent but my only real concern is the same that I have with prisons.

      How, in this supposedly secure environment, was someone able to bring these things into a PRISON or a NUCLEAR SUB undetected?

      And if they were able to do so… what ELSE could they have brought to those same locations.

      Sorry, but everything else is moot until we answer those questions. And the answer is “people responsible for the security of that location absolutely failing at their job, turning a blind eye and maybe even taking bribes”.

      It’s not “how was this sailor high while on the sub?” it’s “who the fuck runs a nuclear military sub that even allows it to be possible for sailors to bring in illegal drugs?”

    20. No_Aesthetic on

      Worry not, world

      Sailors on cocaine and ecstasy are protecting your nuclear weapons with their steroid-fueled gains

    22. TonyHeaven on

      Bad headline:
      Some submariners were tested positive for drugs , and some may have been serving on nuclear subs.
      If they were tested before a tour of duty , many will have used drugs while on leave , not while on duty.

    24. BarnacleWhich7194 on

      These are people who test positive for drugs as part of random drug screening – taking drugs on their time off – 130 in seven years – extremely unlikely to be while working in the strict environment of a submarine.

    25. DanTheApothecary on

      They’re sitting on a shit ton power of bye-bye firecrackers of the nuclear persuasion. Hard drugs may be what takes the edge off. Hope they got hookers as well.

    27. Tea_loving_unicorn on

      And? I Used to be in the Royal Navy, my ship at the time was in the papers for the drug abuse HMS Liverpool. They let go 18 fully trained sailors even though I know for a fact there was more that should of been but they were officers and higher class people. Even in the 2000s the Royal Navy was acting like the the 1800s. Lower class out Upper class in. But even with that that lads who were coked up were only coked up in their down time. When we were on watch at sea they were sober. Our ship had been in the news twice for drugs. And the first time a bunch got kicked out yet we had achieved the biggest drug haul of all time in British history. Druged up on duty yea, but on off time why should we give a fuck. I’ve been 12 years at sea and not seen one lad who likes drugs been a spastic. But I’ve seen plenty straight and narrows been full on retards. Just perspective on life.

    29. LifeFeckinBrilliant on

      I think I’d have to be pretty smacked up to do a tour in one of those things.

    30. RefrigeratorOther586 on

      Imagine living under water, never seeing the sun, and if you ever have to do your job, that means the world is ending or over. Hell yeah I’d be on hard drugs.

    31. the_mighty_peacock on

      So you tell me people are getting high on a submarine full of nukes each of which is enough to level a city? ah well

    32. Subterraniate2 on

      I sent that headline to my brother earlier. 😳

      My, how the Royal Navy has changed since the good old days of rum, bum, and concertina!

    35. slouchingtoepiphany on

      Although they found illicit substances in the submariners’ blood, none of them were “narcotics” as the article stated. Narcotics only applies to opioids, not to the other substances. I’d also argue (as a pharmacist) that the substances they found are relatively “soft” in terms of illicit drugs. They appear to have been conducting a sweep for drugs, which is why they discharged those guys, otherwise they would have just been given a warning and written up.

    36. Normal_Pace7374 on

      Can we just admit that a lot of people do drugs everywhere and stop wasting money throwing people in jail over it.

    38. E5VL on

      The drug taking is a symptom not a cause. Maybe try figure out the why and solve or mitigate that ‘why’ before start punishing anyone. And once you’e addressed and provided & actioned solutions then you should start to punish people. Otherwise the drug problem won’t go away, it will just keep happening.