Damn. Just...damn. I never served on subs, but I took a three-day sea trial and I've worked in submarine repair shops, and was always amazed at the professionalism of the submariners (regardless of the names I called them).

Why did she do it? It had to be for money, plain and simple. How someone could do deliberately falsify this most crucial test and put at risk the lives of our most highly-trained and most-important crews is beyond me.

To be fair, those subs would not have been accepted had they not passed their acceptance trials (I forget the proper name for the process) and all subsequent sea trials after periods in drydock, but the fact remains she - and everyone else who knew what she did (I strongly doubt she was the only one) - put the lives of all those sailors at risk.

I hate seeing an older woman being sent to jail, but in this case, for the sake of justice, if she is found guilty, she needs to be put behind bars, full stop.