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ENS Naval Officer   Ip Student
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The Officer in charge in this case was relieved and is being processed out of the Navy if not already has. I heard he is fighting against it with legal action, but in my opinion, his behavior was unacceptable.. You do not apologize, you do not surrender, and you do not participate in propaganda as a POW. Completely unacceptable and 100 years ago punishable by death.. Out gunned, out numbered, whatever the cause, the OIC should have remained strong and stayed strictly in accordance with his Code of Conduct. Strip him of his rank and discharge him.. as far as the other men go, it depends strongly on reports and the orders of their OIC... retraining on the Code of Conduct and perhaps loss of pay grade.. This is unacceptable. I'd die before I dishonored myself, my teammates or my country.. SEALs would die before they were captured.
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SN Greg Wright
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"You can bet they had sexual harassment training, sensitivity training...but weren't trained on the most elemental standards for Code of Conduct."

Sounds about right. They had all the REALLY IMPORTANT training for battlefield conditions.
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It was the female sailor on board that, while tied up, managed to activate the emergency beacon to alert the fleet they were in trouble. She was awarded for her bravery while her male leaders were relieved. So maybe it's good that the Navy conducts sexual harassment training so that great sailors like her won't leave the Navy because of a bunch of male jerks. Besides, I very much doubt that the Navy said "let's cancel Code of Conduct training and replace it with sexual harassment training. More likely is that the female paid attention to the code of conduct class, and the others didn't. And I'm quite sure that Ralph Peters doesn't have a clue about what the Navy does or doesn't train irt the Code of Conduct. He just made that last sentence up, pulling it out his ass.
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LTC (Join to see) - Your correct sir, they do have code of conduct it is level B not Level C like all the SOF and Aircrew go through. The problem is anyone deploying to a danger zone today is required to do Level B and that is the problem is they do it on a computer instead of instructor course taught, like it was intended to be.. The other thing is command should have done some form of code of conduct before they deployed as a pre-deployment brief and every time they do a SMEAC or patrol brief it should be covered if caught we will do this according to SOP.They also have requirements in their warfare qualifications and code of conduct is in their sign off package, so total failure and looks like the COC is the big blame for the command climate they created.
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