AN EXPERIENCED officer has been severely reprimanded, fined and asked to consider her position in the armed forces after going absent without leave from her duties.

A 24-year-old naval service sailor has been jailed for three months and discharged from the Defence Forces for texting the location of his ship to his girlfriend.

The lawyer representing a 24-year-old naval service sailor has told his court martial there was nothing sinister in his disclosing the whereabouts of his vessel to his girlfriend by text.

IN a landmark case involving national security, a member of the Navy is to be charged before a military court next month with allegedly supplying secret information to smugglers.