{"id":40990,"date":"2020-01-29T02:08:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T02:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/01\/29\/did-this-navy-chief-deploy-her-security-team-without-magazines-for-their-weapons\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:44:02","slug":"did-this-navy-chief-deploy-her-security-team-without-magazines-for-their-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/01\/29\/did-this-navy-chief-deploy-her-security-team-without-magazines-for-their-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Did this Navy chief deploy her security team without magazines for their weapons?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Navy chief is facing court-martial over allegations that her ship security team deployed without magazines for their firearms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Master at Arms Nicolasa R. Simmons, of the San Diego-based Coastal Riverine Squadron 3<\/a>, is also charged with obstruction of justice for impeding a probe into the September 2018 incident by telling her watchstanders \u201cnot to report that the unit was not equipped with M4 and M9 magazines\u201d while underway on board the fast transport Carson City<\/a>, according to charge sheets obtained by Navy Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Military prosecutors also accuse Simmons, 37, of impeding an investigation when she instructed watchstanders not to report that a foreign vessel had entered the \u201creaction zone\u201d of the Carson City near Alexandria, Egypt, that month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simmons also allegedly told an unnamed petty officer second class \u201cto delete video footage recorded during the Embarked Security Team Mission\u201d for Carson City that month, according to the court filings.<\/p>\n\n\n\t