The SSN Hampton was transferred from the East Coast to the West Coast, and upon arriving, a few weeks ago, there was some sort of investigation with a heavy clampdown on information.

Well, now the veil has been lifted a bit, and it appears that there was some signification violations of safety regulations, along with forged log books.

This is a very serious matter. One of the likely causes of the loss of the USS Scorpion in the 1960s was that they were trying out an austere maintenance program.

However, this is less severe thatn what I when I first heard about the lockdown, I was concerned that it involved another nuke had been mishandled.