Sailor sentenced over videos

MAYPORT NAVAL STATION, Fla. - A Navy submarine sailor was sentenced Tuesday to two years in a military prison after he pleaded guilty to illegally making and trading videos of female officers undressing in the shower.

Charles Greaves, a missile technician, entered his plea and apologized to the four women officers, all of whom testified against him.

He is one of seven charged in the case, but was the sole sailor charged with secretly making the videos.

Greaves and the female officers served aboard the USS Wyoming nuclear submarine based at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia. Navy prosecutors say Greaves made the videos and then boasted about trading them "like Pokemon" cards for energy drinks and other items with the other sailors.

"The accused has dehumanized these officers and made them objects, objects to be collected," Navy prosecuting attorney Lt. Cmdr. Lee Marsh said.

The case shines a light on issues the Navy has faced in integrating women into crews on ballistic-missile submarines, which it began to do in 2011.

The four female officers who were videotaped were among the first women to serve on Navy submarines in the Atlantic fleet.

Marsh said Greaves' punishment - reached in a plea deal in exchange for his admissions and testimony against other sailors - needed to serve as a warning.