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The Navy is investigating allegations of a drug ring at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., involving roughly 10 midshipmen, according to a senior Naval Academy official with knowledge of the investigation.

Three midshipmen are accused of selling cocaine, ketamine (a powerful sedative) and LSD to their classmates purchased on the dark web using Bitcoin, according to three midshipmen currently enrolled at the school.

No formal charges have been brought against the midshipmen during the investigation, which began nearly three months ago after a midshipman reported the drug dealing to authorities.

Midshipmen sources estimated the number of students under investigation to be as high as roughly two-dozen, despite the lower official estimate.

In a sign of how seriously Naval Academy officials are taking the alleged drug use, the second in command of the school, Capt. Robert B. Chadwick II, ordered a surprise drug test for all the midshipmen at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday morning. The entire Brigade of Midshipmen totals 4,500.

Normally, senior midshipmen leaders are given a heads up about drug tests the night before, and the tests are given only at the company level -- involving about 150 midshipmen at a time. Not so in this case, according to one of the midshipmen. Instead, all 4,500 were tested at the same time.

The drug investigation is centered on the 23rd company and its roughly 150 midshipmen, according to several students who agreed to speak to Fox News only on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.


Last week, drug-sniffing dogs from the DEA were brought in to search the rooms of the suspected drug users and discovered cocaine. The midshipman suspected of possessing the drug was at athletic practice at the time and she tried to escape but was apprehended and brought in for questioning, according to two midshipmen with knowledge of the incident.

Since charges have not been brought against any of the suspected midshipmen, Fox News is withholding the names of those implicated. Two are prior enlisted midshipmen who had spent time in the fleet before gaining appointment to the Naval Academy, which educates and trains young men and women to become officers in the Navy or Marine Corps. One of the midshipmen tested positive on a drug test in early January after returning from Christmas break, adding more urgency to the investigation, according to one midshipman.

Chadwick recently addressed the brigade at lunch, telling them that while the investigation is ongoing, there would be no more discussion about it, according to several midshipmen present that day.

“The Naval Academy and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service recently initiated a command-assisted investigation in Annapolis after receiving a midshipman report of alleged recreational drug use within the Brigade,” said Cmdr. David Mckinney, a Naval Academy spokesman, in a statement to Fox News. “[T]he results of the investigation are still pending. We are continuing to work with NCIS on these reported allegations. The Navy has a zero tolerance for drug abuse and takes all allegations of misconduct very seriously.”

The Navy investigation into alleged drug use at the Naval Academy was first mentioned in a report by Fox 45 in Baltimore on Tuesday.

The Annapolis Capital also reported that between 2010 and 2011, “NCIS conducted an 11-month investigation into the use of synthetic marijuana, or spice, by midshipmen. That investigation ended the careers of at least 27 midshipmen.”

Naval Academy officials said seven midshipmen were kicked out for drugs between 2010 and 2017.

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For those of us who don't speak Navy, what is a Midshipman?


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For those of us who don't speak Navy, what is a Midshipman?


An Officer-in-Training, same as a West Point "Cadet".




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For those of us who don't speak Navy, what is a Midshipman?


A student going through the Naval Academy (ie, college)






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For those of us who don't speak Navy, what is a Midshipman?


A student going through the Naval Academy (ie, college)


Or NROTC.




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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Screw them. Kick them out, jail them, make them repay their cost to the taxpayer.

There is not a big enough book to throw at them. Make them examples.

Disgusting.
 
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Screw them. Kick them out, jail them, make them repay their cost to the taxpayer.

There is not a big enough book to throw at them. Make them examples.

Disgusting.


Or make them serve as enlisted. And assign them to the worst duty stations.
 
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Will be interesting to see the results of the drug test.

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Screw them. Kick them out, jail them, make them repay their cost to the taxpayer.

There is not a big enough book to throw at them. Make them examples.

Disgusting.



Or make them serve as enlisted. And assign them to the worst duty stations.

Those of us enlisted members of the DoD appreciate our honorable service being considered fitting punishment for drug-abusing college kids.
 
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Sorry, don’t want them in the fleet. If they are first or second year, they are just gone.

If juniors or seniors, send them home with a bill for their tuition.



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These punks are not worth saving. Boot them, jail them, and make sure they never serve in a position of public trust ever again. The enlisted ranks can't use criminals like this.



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Screw them. Kick them out, jail them, make them repay their cost to the taxpayer.

There is not a big enough book to throw at them. Make them examples.

Disgusting.


Or make them serve as enlisted. And assign them to the worst duty stations.


Is Diego Garcia still in operation?


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Anything drug related = automatic discharge. Either court-martial or admin sep
 
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Originally posted by pedropcola:
Screw them. Kick them out, jail them, make them repay their cost to the taxpayer.

There is not a big enough book to throw at them. Make them examples.

Disgusting.


Or make them serve as enlisted. And assign them to the worst duty stations.


Serving as an enlisted person will not fix them.

Nor will it serve the enlisted sailors who have to work with criminals......

that is what you are suggesting-oh, sold or did cocaine with your college friends and BOOM now you have to work with the enlisted guys....

obviously you never served.

The proper place for them is :

First: a proper investigation

Second: a proper Courts Martial or Captain's Mast as provided by the UCMJ

Thirdly: serve their time (wherever that may be)

Fourthly: recover any and ALL monies paid by the taxpayers for their time in Naval Academy (and their time in the brig)

Lastly: BCD (Bad Conduct Discharge-one that cannot be changed after six months...)



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Or make them serve as enlisted. And assign them to the worst duty stations.



If guilty, would we want these losers in our military?


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Screw them. Kick them out, jail them, make them repay their cost to the taxpayer.

There is not a big enough book to throw at them. Make them examples.

Disgusting.


Or make them serve as enlisted. And assign them to the worst duty stations.


If they've signed their "2 for 7s" absolutely.
 
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I want some brig time for them first. I still remember when the Marines would lead them to lunch.

"One fork, one spoon, one knife, duty escort!"

And they would all put their food in their mouths in unison and chew while sitting in attention.



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The midshipman suspected of possessing the drug was at athletic practice at the time and she tried to escape but was apprehended and brought in for questioning


Ha!

You can just imagine some freaked-out 19 year old, in her PT uniform, trying to make a break for it from a gaggle of serious-looking NCIS Agents.

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Screw them. Kick them out, jail them, make them repay their cost to the taxpayer.

There is not a big enough book to throw at them. Make them examples.

Disgusting.


Or make them serve as enlisted. And assign them to the worst duty stations.


I hear the antarctic brigade needs some folks.


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Anything drug related = automatic discharge. Either court-martial or admin sep


Dishonorable (DD) would be appropriate, right after they finish their tour in the military gray bar hotel.


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