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Oof. Not me, man. They may have survived it, but that was stuuuupid. Or, maybe not "stupid"; I'll give them "foolish". They obviously knew what they were getting into; one woman quit her job, expecting to go directly to prison and not come back home. They're lucky no-one was shot, though.
The military is _really_protective of their subs, especially the nuclear ones.
I give them props for putting their lives on the line for their beliefs. But that was a dumb protest which accomplished nothing. I mean, lots of protests don't effect immediate change, but this one didn't move any needle, and had no lasting impact except to fuck up those people's lives.