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Author John Fraim drew inspiration for his fictional wrok from Navy Times' coverage of a real-life drug drug ring in the nuclear reactor department of the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan.
The owners of the ACX Crystal will pay the U.S. government about $27 million in connection to the 2017 collision with the destroyer that killed seven and totaled the warship.
Drug use, possession and distribution charges have ensnared more than a dozen sailors from the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan's nuclear reactor department.
Capt. John R. Nettleton is accused of misleading investigators, superiors and subordinates regarding the events leading up to a civilian man's 2015 death on Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.