‘Strive to Win’
July 7th, 2009 | Foreign navies Morale | Posted by Andrew Scutro
Scoop Deck was disappointed to learn this week about a brewing controversy in the Royal Australian Navy. Male sailors aboard the unrep ship Success were found to have kept a betting pool at sea, with awards to those who were sexually successful with female shipmates. Reportedly the events were recorded in a sort of logbook and certain women fetched higher prize money than others, depending on rank for example.
Of course ships at sea in any navy are not without, ah, encounters or even fraternization, despite a command’s best efforts. Some ships have lasting reputations. But Scoop Deck has been lucky enough to be aboard Aussie ships at sea and came away impressed with the cool confidence and positive energy among the crew. Call it prude, but this kind of thing undermines cohesion and friendship whether it’s on a ship, in a college dorm or elsewhere.
Unfortunately the motto of this ship, where this competitive betting was discovered among a crew of 220, is “Strive to Win.”
Comments
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Dan Says:
July 7th, 2009 at 6:19 pmHmmm… Male sailors fooling around with Female sailors and bragging about it?? whodaguessedit?
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EM1(SS) Tugboat Says:
July 9th, 2009 at 6:07 amIt undermines discipline (the article I read referred to officer-enlisted shenanigans), but I have seen nothing that suggests that it was anything other than consensual. Seems a simple issue to discipline those who broke serious rules (leader-with-led fraternization), but to punish everyone seems a little heavy-handed.
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The Scoop Deck – Commonwealth navies links Says:
March 12th, 2010 at 1:16 pm[...] The Australian navy is reeling from a new round of revelations in a sex scandal that Scoop Deck first told you about all the way back in July. [...]