Seven members of Iowa State’s Navy ROTC program will face corrective actions after posting explicit photos on a Facebook page, The Associated Press reported.

The AP reported that the explicit photos, which were posted March 4, according to Lt. Sean Brophy, a spokesman for the Naval Service Training Command, featured some of the cadets in various locations on the Iowa State campus. 

The explicit nature of the photos was not reported.

The photos were posted on the Facebook page for a student group with ties to the NROTC called the Glorious Order of the Sextant, according to The AP. The page states that the group is “dedicated to the preservation of those nautical, professional, and social traditions of the Iowa State Naval ROTC that are worth preserving.”

Brophy told The AP that NROTC leaders were informed of the cadets’ actions the next day, and that they took immediate action to ensure the photos were taken down from Facebook.

He also told The AP that “appropriate administrative actions” had been taken against the cadets, however, due to federal privacy laws, he could not comment on the specific disciplinary action.

The midshipmen will remain part of the NROTC program. 

The report comes just a month after the Defense Department began investigating reports of Marines sharing naked photos of female Marines and veterans on the Facebook page, “Marines United,” CNN reported.

“We take this issue very seriously and categorically do not condone this behavior — it has no place in our military or society, and it does not comport with our core values,” Brophy told The AP.

Capt. Scott Curtis, commanding officer of the NROTC program who has trained all 68 members of his battalion on proper social media behavior, notified the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the university provost about the incident, according to The AP.

Brophy told The AP that the photos were not taken as a part of any NROTC event and that the cadets were not in uniform in the photos. However, the Glorious Order of the Sextant held its initiation ceremony for new members the night prior to the incident, according to The AP.

Michael Tallon, president of the Glorious Order of the Sextant, could not be reached for comments.