Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs

[Gman]

Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs

SEATTLE (AP) ? A metallurgist in Washington state pleaded guilty to fraud Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines.

Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn, Washington, was the director of metallurgy at a foundry in Tacoma that supplied steel castings used by Navy contractors Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding to make submarine hulls.

From 1985 through 2017, Thomas falsified the results of strength and toughness tests for at least 240 productions of steel ? about half the steel the foundry produced for the Navy, according to her plea agreement, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. The tests were intended to show that the steel would not fail in a collision or in certain ?wartime scenarios," the Justice Department said.

[hollohas]

W.T.F.

That women should go to jail for the rest of her life. Wow.

[.455_Hunter]

Self-certified testing? Why no third party verification?

It's not like subs are some cheap bulk component.

[BPTactical]

So this is why it hit the uncharted sea mount……..

[BREATHER]

Assholes to the left of, dipshits to left... What was the point,,, sabotage ????

[BPTactical]

Assholes to the left of, dipshits to left... What was the point,,, sabotage ????

Nah work on it-

"Assholes to the Left, Fuckers to the Right
Here I am Stuck in the middle with Squids"

[Wulf202]

There should be dozens convicted in this.

[Duman]

Nah work on it-

"Assholes to the Left, Fuckers to the Right
Here I am Stuck in the middle with Squids"

Hahaha!!!

[TEAMRICO]

Come on, there are more “Seaman” jokes here.

[eddiememphis]

Come on, there are more “Seaman” jokes here.

She said it was harder than it really was.