Read the entire four-part series here — Tinder, Sailor, Hooker, Pimp

Military Times has published a four-part series revealing the Navy’s own investigation into sailors seeking to traffic prostitutes in Bahrain and other sex crimes.

PART ONE

Tinder, Sailor, Hooker, Pimp: The U.S. Navy’s sex trafficking scandal in Bahrain

NCIS probes revealed evidence that U.S. sailors were housing prostitutes in their apartments, seizing the women’s passports and taking a cut of their earnings ― profiting from the sex trade that services shipmates in Bahrain.

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

PART TWO

A teen prostitute in Bahrain and the sailor who wanted to save her

At 18, Mary began roaming the bars and clubs outside of Naval Support Activity Bahrain, looking for U.S. sailor clients.

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

PART THREE

Why the Navy struggled to convict in Bahrain sex crime cases

Navy efforts to hold sailors accountable for crimes involving prostitutes suffered from a recurring problem: the failure to get the Thai prostitutes into a military courtroom to testify.

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

PART FOUR

Here’s what the Navy says it’s doing to keep sailors away from prostitutes in Bahrain

"Any of us can slowly and almost quietly walk down a very dangerous path," the fleet chaplain said.

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

About Geoff Ziezulewicz

Geoff is a senior staff reporter for Military Times, focusing on the Navy. He covered Iraq and Afghanistan extensively and was most recently a reporter at the Chicago Tribune. He welcomes any and all kinds of tips at geoffz@militarytimes.com.

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Read the entire four-part series here — Tinder, Sailor, Hooker, Pimp

PART ONE

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NCIS probes revealed evidence that U.S. sailors were housing prostitutes in their apartments, seizing the women’s passports and taking a cut of their earnings ― profiting from the sex trade that services shipmates in Bahrain.

PART TWO

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At 18, Mary began roaming the bars and clubs outside of Naval Support Activity Bahrain, looking for U.S. sailor clients.

PART THREE

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Navy efforts to hold sailors accountable for crimes involving prostitutes suffered from a recurring problem: the failure to get the Thai prostitutes into a military courtroom to testify.

PART FOUR

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"Any of us can slowly and almost quietly walk down a very dangerous path," the fleet chaplain said.

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The president called on Americans to ensure that their “sacrifice was not in vain.”

Memorial Day is a powerful time to reflect on a question essential to citizenship: What is duty to country, and how is it relevant to our lives today?

The White House and House Republicans reached a debt ceiling agreement that increases the defense budget by 3.3% while cutting non-defense spending.

The attack lasted more than five hours, with air defense reportedly shooting down more than 40 drones.

Federal investigators say a Navy contractor’s aircraft caught fire before it crashed off the California coast earlier this month.

Taiwan's defense ministry said it detected three ships from the Chinese navy, including the Shandong aircraft carrier, passing through the Taiwan Strait.

Army 1st Lt. Doyle M. Hufstedler was killed by an improvised explosive device in Iraq in 2004. He was 25.

Suicide has become an epidemic in the veteran community. But it is a problem we can strive to solve, by connecting with each other.

The 25-year manhunt launched in the wake of the 1983 Beirut bombings form the basis of the four-part Showtime series “Ghosts of Beirut."