18 Ike sailors punished over exam

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Nukes caught cheating
Officials provide few details on incident


18 Ike sailors punished over exam
By Andrew Scutro - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Feb 23, 2009 12:47:46 EST

Seventeen senior enlisted sailors and one junior officer in the reactor department of the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower were disciplined in connection with senior-level cheating on a written nuclear exam while underway late last year, according to several Navy sources familiar with the matter.

A spokesman for Naval Reactors confirmed the incident but provided few additional details because of privacy considerations of the sailors involved and the highly classified aspects of nuclear propulsion.

“Recently, one written examination, a small portion of the overall periodic assessment ... was compromised,” Lukas McMichael, spokesman for Naval Reactors, said in a written statement. “A replacement written examination was successfully administered and the overall assessment was successfully completed. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is operating safely.”

The month of the incident was not provided, but an enlisted source familiar with the incident said it occurred in November or December.

The written exam was part of an annual multiday evaluation by members of the Nuclear Propulsion Examining Board. The group is more commonly known as the ORSE board, shorthand for Operational Reactor Safeguards Examination.


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