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    Captain sacked for making sex video on nuclear submarine

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    1. BestButtons on

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      *Danielle Sheridan, DEFENCE EDITOR, 12 August 2024 • 3:25pm*

      A nuclear submarine captain has been sacked after making a sexually explicit video.

      When he made the video, the officer was in command of a Vanguard-class nuclear submarine armed with Trident Two weapons.

      The captain, who was fired after his superiors saw the footage, had shared it with a junior sailor who served aboard the same submarine.

      According to The Sun, crewmates claimed the pair had a physical relationship while the submarine was at sea.

      The officer, whose identity has not been revealed but who, according to The Sun, was awarded an OBE for his work, was also accused of sending explicit selfies.

      He had moved to a desk job when the footage and ­photographs were revealed and was sacked under the Ministry of Defence’s zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable sexual behaviour.

      The Navy has been blighted by a series of allegations of rape and inappropriate behaviour on its submarines. In Oct 2022, Adml Sir Ben Key, the First Sea Lord, was forced to launch an investigation into “abhorrent” claims of bullying, misogyny and sexual harassment against female submariners.

      Sophie Brook, one of the first women to join the service after it lifted its ban on female recruits in 2011, warned that the fleet was “no place for women” and claimed she was assaulted as she slept in her bed by a colleague of a higher rank.

      Earlier this month, a court martial heard that Able Seaman Liam Pritchard, a Navy chef, lured a sailor into a warship’s scullery before locking the door and sexually assaulting him.

      Defence sources said the welfare of military personnel was its “highest priority” as they stressed reporting mechanisms had improved to allow personnel to feel safe and supported when raising issues.
      A Royal Navy spokesman said it would be “inappropriate to comment” on the case due to common law and the Data Protection Act.

      The source added: “All forms of unacceptable behaviour are taken extremely seriously and anything which falls short of the highest standards will not be tolerated. Anyone who is found culpable will be held accountable for their actions regardless of their rank or status.”

    2. Original_Success3895 on

      That’s the UK for you. If you want to be in a position of responsibility and you don’t have shameless Johnson charisma you have to be absolutely spotless. 

      Even better if you have no sex life to speak of.   

      That’s why all our leaders look like joyless headteachers and the worst thing they’ll claim to have ever done is run through a field of wheat.

    3. Ok-Fox1262 on

      Was he going down when he was going down?

      But clearly he was disobeying their motto “we come unseen”.

    4. clydewoodforest on

      >When he made the video, the officer was in command of a Vanguard-class nuclear submarine armed with Trident Two weapons.

      Was he off-duty at the time? Is there a regulation prohibiting sex/sexual behaviour while on a mission?

    5. SP1570 on

      I am still waiting to see what happens to those who subcontracted the programming code of the submarine to Belarus and lied about it …

    8. Daedelous2k on

      I know we’ve got the mile high club but I guess the Low Riders Club is a lot more exclusive.

    9. alfienoakes on

      Do you know how fucking difficult it is to become a nuke captain in the RN? What an idiot!

    10. dekor86 on

      All I can here is “fire the nuclear weapons” in a Steven Toast voice in the background

    11. Loose-Tomatillo-6499 on

      Nah, he was just joining the mile low club.

      7 knots and 4 seamen.

      Torpedo out ranks Periscope.

      Captain in my Hatch part one.

      Oh Rudder my reactor.

      Starboard and Hatch.

      Captain Torpedo and his merry Tubes.

      Stern me on.

    14. BreakTheSuicycle on

      He released his long hard shaft full of semen inside of a long hard shaft full of seamen

    15. -Apo110 on

      That poor junior crewmate! I would bet money it’s HMS Vigilant though – it’s long been nicknamed ‘HMS Sex & Cocaine’. Decades later and several crew changes and the problems still persist. Must be haunted by a lust demon or something…

    16. Available-Bench-3880 on

      Who has not nailed a wife in the fan room. Night before or the night returning if you had duty

    18. ElectroAtletico2 on

      Why didn’t this newspaper highlight that silliness of the now ex-CO “meeting” that Princess Anne woman?