Navy female Officers videoed on sub while showering.

In I believe was 1998, a similar thing happened on my then ship, the USS Coronado (AGF-11). No cameras were involved, but four sailors ended up being found guilty at Captain's Mast of peeping at female junior officers while they showered. One turned "state's evidence," and he was the only one who wasn't admin discharged of the four.

I was the one who learned the peeping was happening and reported it to the chain of command. I first told my division officer, and then we together had a meeting with the ship's Sr Chief Master At Arms.

My division officer was one of the ones who the four enlisted sailors were peeping at. Talking to her about what was then still happening and how I knew she was one of the ones who was being peeped at, and then having a meeting with her at the Sr Chief...seeing the look on my DivO's face was heart wrenching.

I saw the hell of what this kind of horrid behavior does to good officers who happen to be female. What made it worse for me is that I had another Sr Chief from the mess come up to me after the mast for the four peepers and told me I handled it wrong. He told me that I should have taken it to the chiefs' mess and let them handle it at their level.

The book is going to be thrown at the filmers in this latest peeping situation, and my guess is they're going to be spending years in the brig. I'm with those who believe everyone who saw the videos and didn't report it need to be discharged or separated as close to now as possible with less than honorable discharges. My god, those women these "sailors" filmed are daughters, sisters, and spouses of people who love them. It says something about these service members who watched and didn't report these films not being able to say to themselves "What if this unsuspecting officer i watched on film showering were my sister, mother, or wife?"

That so many knew and did nothing should be surprising -- given the core values of honor, courage, and commitment -- but to me it's not surprising at all. Somehow still in 2014 we have sailors who don't see a problem in engaging in sexual harassment is both sad and infuriating.

This frankly really bothers me as my daughter is in the USNA and going to be a SWO. I will not go further into details but the Navy has serious respect for others issues.

This was bound to happen. I think that this one incident should not deter women from serving on Subs and should be a wake up call to bring back keel hauling, shooting from the torpedo tube anyone that violates the sacred trust on board these boats if caught.

On a serious note. Anyone caught doing this needs to be demoted and discharged for conduct unbecoming of an *insert rank ident here*.

Here is an update to the original post. One Sailor a Second Class Petty Officer (E-5) appears to have done the videotaping. Eleven other Petty Officers viewed the videos and did not report it to the Chain of Command. NCIS is still investigating and final disposition will not happen until that investigation is complete. The Navy Times Article is attached. Is it possible more Sailors were involved?

No one deserves to have thier privacy violated, but truly what privacy is there on a sub. If a woman wants to serve along side the men on a sub, suck it up and be one one of the guys, there is no room for you to have private space because there is no extra space! This is not a floating city, you want to be a nuc, great, do it above water on a carrier, which by the way has it's own is issues with inappropriate conduct. I don't know, just the opinion of a nuc electricians wife of 23 yrs. Proud of my husband, proud of of my submarine family! Extremely sad to see women on board.....

I don't see how labeling young offenders like this for the rest of their lives is really fair. Everyone makes mistakes, but that's not saying they should get off either. Also, if you put men and women together over an extended period of time, something is bound to happen. It's just natural there are bound to be something somewhere that is not ok. Personally, I don't think there should be men and women mixed on closed commands. To close, to long. But what do I know?

An E-5 from TRF? Did he recently transfer to TRF? I cant understand how a guy from TRF was on the boat with the ability to video tape them in the shower especially for a year. He wouldn't have much of a reason to be there other than during the work day when these people would be preoccupied with production. Unless it was a Missile Tech who found himself a little hole in the walls behind the wine cellar straight into the Stateroom Showers ;) Im gonna guess an MT2 who recently transferred to TRF is the culprit. Maybe an MTSN or MT3 now.

Anyone hear the scuttlebutt about what actually did happen with this case?

Everyone who is found to be responsible, or even knew of this and failed to report it, should be put under the brig. There is no excuse for this, especially coming from a Petty Officer. I remember reading the Petty Officer's Creed some time ago and I think I remember reading something along the context of, "my integrity must be beyond reproach."

What a disgrace. I hope his sailors look to this as what Not to do.

It should be investigated as any other incident of sexual harassment would be. I understand that the entire sexual harassment investigation/prosecution process is broken and needs to be fixed. Make the process faster and more open. In line with the Question and one of the comments about Bill Cosby, the E-5 in question should be removed as his image is not what the Navy is looking for. (He says with heavy sarcasm)