Sailor guilty of illegally videotaping female officers; sentenced to 10 months confinement
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A submarine sailor has pleaded guilty to illegally videotaping female officers in the vessel's shower area, and has been sentenced to 10 months in a Navy brig.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan 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 subs.
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Military prosecutors say Secrest in 2014 used the camera on his cellphone to take a video of the officers.
Secrest is the sixth sailor tried in the case, and the fifth to be found guilty.