Sailor sentenced for illegally videotaping female officers
MAYPORT NAVAL STATION, Fla. - A submarine sailor has been sentenced to 10 months in a Navy brig after pleading guilty to illegally videotaping female officers in a vessel's shower area.
Military prosecutors said Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Secrest used his cellphone in 2014 to take a video of the officers. Secrest pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he made the video and lied to investigators. He also received a bad conduct discharge and a reduction in rank.
Secrest is among seven sailors charged in a case that has disrupted the Navy's integration of women into its submarine force. The women in the videos were among the first to serve on submarines.
Secrest is the sixth sailor tried in the case, and the fifth to be found guilty.