11 from San Diego-based Navy submarine disciplined for falsifying tests on a nuclear reactor

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The redacted report pdf is at http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/images/080308hampton.pdf

http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=57364

11 from San Diego-based Navy submarine disciplined for falsifying tests on a nuclear reactor

SAN DIEGO — Eleven officers and sailors from a San Diego-based Navy submarine have been disciplined for falsifying tests on a nuclear reactor and cheating on officer advancement exams.

A Navy report released Friday said crew members of the attack sub Hampton falsified weekly chemical tests as far back as November 2006. The tests involved the highly pure water used to cool the sub's reactor.

Improper chemical levels can lead to erosion.


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20080308-9999-1m8hampton.html

11 disciplined after inquiry uncovers wrongdoing on sub
Probe finds cheating and falsified tests
By Steve Liewer
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

March 8, 2008

SAN DIEGO – Officers and sailors aboard the San Diego-based submarine Hampton falsified weekly chemical tests for the boat's nuclear reactor and cheated on advancement exams during a seven-month deployment last year to the western Pacific Ocean, according to a Navy investigative report released yesterday.

Despite being redacted heavily, the document did provide some details of widespread abuses aboard the nuclear attack submarine, which was transferred to the West Coast in September from Norfolk, Va.

Four officers and seven enlisted sailors have been disciplined as a result of the investigation, said spokeswoman Lt. Alli Myrick of Destroyer Squadron 11, the San Diego-based command that includes the Hampton. The squadron commander dismissed the submarine's commanding officer and chief engineer.

Online: To read the investigative report about the submarine Hampton, go to uniontrib.com/more/documents

A preliminary investigation began in the last weeks of the Hampton's deployment – during a standard examination of the submarine's records. The probe showed that chemical tests involving high-purity water for cooling the Hampton's nuclear reactor had been falsified as far back as November 2006.

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[thunder rising]

1. "Transferred from east coast to the West Coast" Bush, "Get that thing away from me!"

Send over there to those lattay drinkers.