First of all we have the CMC of Naval Base Kitsap, who's in the news because he was arrested for attempting to arrange to have sex with underage children:
Detectives alleged that Command Master Chief Edward E. Scott, 43, had been communicating over the Internet with someone he thought was a woman with 12-year-old twins, a boy and girl, but in reality was an undercover agent.[Emphasis mine] I guess the Naval Base Kitsap webmasters don't work during the weekend, because Master Chief Scott's bio is still up on the base's web page. I guess they also don't do much in the way of monitoring people's web surfing on base computers. Please note that he is not a submariner.
Over the course of a month, Scott used his computer at work to engage in chats that were sexually explicit and graphic in nature, Bremerton police Sgt. Kevin Crane told The Associated Press.
Eventually, Scott asked to meet the woman and her children and a meeting was arranged for 5 a.m. Friday at a Bremerton hotel, Crane said.
"Scott provided graphic detail of specific sex acts he wanted to perform, and which he wanted the children to perform as well," police said. He was arrested and booked into Kitsap County Jail for investigation of second-degree attempted rape of a child and communication with a minor for immoral purposes.
The other person in the news is LCDR John Sharpe, Jr., a PAO on the USS Carl Vinson, has been relieved of his duties following accusations that he has been running anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying websites. He's also a 9/11 "the Jews did it" conspiracy theorist. (Some more on that particular charge can be found here.) While the Southern Poverty Law Center says that he's a "former submariner", and this alleged interview with Sharpe has him saying that he was the USW Officer on the SubGru Eight staff in the late '90s, he's clearly not a submariner any more. (Here's a picture of him, from this page, so you can know to avoid him if you see him walking around the base.)
But what do you bet both of these people got really good scores on their Physical Fitness Assessments? And isn't that really what's important in the Navy today anyway? {/sarcasm}
