When confronted with the doctored results, Thomas told investigators, “Yeah, that looks bad,” the Justice Department said. She suggested that in some cases she changed the tests to passing grades because she thought it was “stupid” that the Navy required the tests to be conducted at negative-100 degrees Fahrenheit (negative-73.3 degrees Celsius).
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https://www.reddit.com/r/navy/comments/qpvpus/metallurgist_admits_faking_steeltest_results_for/
There isn't much activity on the thread yet, but I'm curious as to whether or not the news will even faze submariners. Everything about submarines and the training pipeline to get on one is so horrid that I'm pretty sure their base galley I visited only had a full ice cream bar to keep the suicide rate low. After seeing the shitshow of 7th Fleet, I just saw it as one more thing on the vessels that will catastrophically fail. If anything they might keep the flaw like the blank in a firing squad. That way the COs who are lining up to lose their ships can hope that there's a chance it won't be their fault.
The last major submarine story was that the in 1958 the USS Thresher was crippled on the sea floor and the Navy just left them there pinging for help 37 times. The whole thing was classified and covered up until this year. That's the standard of life acceleration I expect from the Navy and while the crews of subs are much better than surface sailors they're riding in Navy machines under Navy admirals.
Yeah submariners are an odd bunch I used to work with a few. Dont wanna dox myself too much but they'd bring up the crash of the uss hartford as an example of good quality control because the sail didn't break when they smashed it
I mean not really? Argentina lost a sub to the depths a few years ago, the ARA San Juan.
Also, just gonna link this other discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/submarines/comments/qprm60/metallurgist_admits_faking_steeltest_results_for
There are plenty of submarine accidents after 1958, I just mean the story was declassified this year so it's the most recent scandal regarding subs that I watched /r/Navy react to. Before the recent batch of releases, the cover story was that there wasn't any contact with the crew or potential for rescue. I fully expect submarines in general to fail because they're super complex tech even if there isn't a nuclear reactor and any mechanical issue can sink it. In the US Navy they're regarded as a special community and the backbone of global power projection outside of nuclear carriers, so there's the contrast of their pride/skill and their lack of confidence in Big Navy to keep them safe.