300 restricted for nuke training lapses at naval shipyard

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http://hamptonroads.com/2014/09/300-restricted-nuke-training-lapses-naval-shipyard

300 restricted for nuke training lapses at naval shipyard
By Mike Hixenbaugh
The Virginian-Pilot
© October 1, 2014

PORTSMOUTH

About 300 employees at Norfolk Naval Shipyard have been placed on restricted duty after officials there discovered that the workers had been given credit for nuclear training that they had not actually attended.

Eight employees responsible for administering the training have been reassigned pending the outcome of an investigation, said Jeff Cunningham, a shipyard spokesman.

The revelation comes a week after The Virginian-Pilot reported that the shipyard had halted all nuclear work after civilian workers, on two occasions, improperly handled potentially radioactive equipment.

The discrepancy in training was discovered following an anonymous tip and was not related to the ongoing investigation into the previous safety lapses, Cunningham said.

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1. Comes on the heels of a massive 7 year test cheating scandal

On Aug. 20, the Navy dismissed 34 sailors for cheating on an important nuclear-power test. The sailors were all enlisted staff instructors at the Nuclear Power School in Goose Creek, South Carolina. The instructors had been passing out the answers to the tests they were administering.

Snip....The cheating in South Carolina went on for seven long years. Sailors lied to investigators’ faces. Commanders either were complicit or—equally worrying—totally ignorant of their subordinates’ systematic violations. And there still are too many unanswered questions.

The instructors passed out the tests to anyone who asked. They “had likely already cheated before they assumed their position [as instructors],” the Navy concluded.
The instructors got to their positions because they themselves had cheated on the tests. Then they passed on their knowledge to their students.
This went out for seven years. The cheaters institutionalized their deceit.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-navys-nuclear-cheating-scandal-is-worse-than-you-think-d0557a91f13


More:
This is yet another in a long line of ethical disasters in the military recently. Back in March, the Air Force dismissed nine commanders amid another cheating scandal. In late December, the Pentagon fired an Air Force major general for getting shit-faced in Moscow while on official business.

Also at the end of last year, the Navy investigated senior officers for accepting bribes from a Malaysian contractor.