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Navy "intelligence"
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Grendizer138
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Nope. If it was the Navy wouldn’t have posted that they took it down.It was photoshopped...
Was Humiliating Navy Rifle Photo Actually Photoshopped?
Was the Navy's embarrassing rifle photo actually photoshopped and edited?www.outkick.com
It was photoshopped...
Was Humiliating Navy Rifle Photo Actually Photoshopped?
Was the Navy's embarrassing rifle photo actually photoshopped and edited?
I saw the actual instagram post… it’s real.
And the shadows on the optic are congruent with the ones on the upper.
Grendizer138
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I would have thought it was photoshopped (does the USN even issue VCOGs?), but the apology has me thinking it was an enlisted guy playing a prank and everyone had a good laugh, even the Skipper, until PR decided to post it.
fencer
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And this is why the Navy lets the Marines do the actual fighting.
Sailors are just Uber drivers for Jarheads. Once they deliver Marines, they can go back to bitching that they want longer hot showers and better desserts in the chow hall.
What an embarrassment.
Sailors are just Uber drivers for Jarheads. Once they deliver Marines, they can go back to bitching that they want longer hot showers and better desserts in the chow hall.
What an embarrassment.
HorizontalHunter
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Either way it's bad optics
![[rofl]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/013.gif "ROFL [rofl]")
Dench
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I suspect it's real. People in the military can be pretty clueless. I can remember 20 years ago when I completely forgot how to open a m203. It's not even complicated. Just forgot and had no clue. Same when we changed over to the new molle stuff. They just handed it to me and I hung it all on my gear wrong simply because I had no idea how to properly attach it.
The trick is not to take photos of stupid shit. We made sure we were squared away for photos for a lot of reasons.
I doubt the navy does quality training with vcogs. Looking at the grip on that rifle it's already fairly obvious they don't have a clue in general. Training issue. Don't take photos till you figure it out, dummies.
fencer
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Yeah.... But we knew you hid them with the bilge queens lube. We just weren't gonna touch them once they were all sticky.All true but we have to hide the crayons.
I'm kidding of course. Some of the nicest couples I ever met were in the Navy.
HorizontalHunter
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That was something to see and feel in person.
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The link asserting that it's photoshoped has
As you'd expect, people weren't overly impressed by the fact the Navy posted the photo and nobody in the workflow didn't realize all the incredible mistakes.
Crappy grammar. But, it passed spellcheck.
As you'd expect, people weren't overly impressed by the fact the Navy posted the photo and nobody in the workflow didn't realize all the incredible mistakes.
Crappy grammar. But, it passed spellcheck.
Navy fires captain of USS John S. McCain for "loss of confidence"
Cmdr. Cameron Yaste took command of the destroyer in October 2023. He was relieved during its current deployment in the Middle East.
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Navy fires captain of USS John S. McCain for "loss of confidence"
Cmdr. Cameron Yaste took command of the destroyer in October 2023. He was relieved during its current deployment in the Middle East.
I certainly hope that picture wasn’t a factor. Maybe it was just an indicator of his awareness and attention to detail in general, but the Navy has a habit of firing commanders for silly reasons. Sometimes good reasons… but sometimes silly ones.
NHKevin
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Probably made the Navy look bad in a very public way.
n1oty
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This is just my opinion, but anyone that puts an optic on backwards, uses it that way and does not realize there is a problem probably suffers from deficiencies in a multitude of areas.
I usually assume it's something sexual, like he's screwing someone in the crew. Who knows?
If you've never handled an optic before and they're not a part of your life, then is it really a "deficiency" if you don't know how they mount?
His training is in handling big ships and leading big crews, not small arms optics. To be fair, it seems he must not be all that great at those other things either, given that he's now been fired, but still.
Like I've admitted in this thread already, unless someone had pointed out the problem to me? I wouldn't have known it was backward in the photo. And I've been shooting steadily since 1993 or so. I just don't usually use optics, and I'm not used to glancing at them and knowing how they're supposed to look. It's not a deficiency; it's just a different set of experiences and training.
“According to an online bio, Yaste is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee. He joined the Navy after graduating from The Citadel through Naval ROTC in 2006.”
Not long after commissioning ( via OCS) an officer said to me “I’ve never met a Citadel graduate worth the powder to blow him to hell.” Personal experience confirmed that view.
So he had a good run by comparison.
Not long after commissioning ( via OCS) an officer said to me “I’ve never met a Citadel graduate worth the powder to blow him to hell.” Personal experience confirmed that view.
So he had a good run by comparison.
graphite
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So as mentioned above, less than a year into his command he gets fired and while on deployment which would seem to suggest it was something fairly serious. From the story at the link above:
“The Navy fired the commanding officer of the USS John S. McCain for what it termed “a loss of confidence in his ability to command the guided-missile destroyer.”
Cmdr. Cameron Yaste, who has commanded the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer since October 2023, was relieved of command during its current deployment in the Middle East, where it has been operating since April while assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.”
Now a question for all you Navy guys, is relieving commanders every year a common thing, historically? I ask because going to that link and reading the story, at the bottom are links to additional stories. Without leaving that page, I noted 9 other similar stories all within the last year:
Navy fires captain of ship that ran aground in Africa /Jul 8 2024
Navy fires USS Somerset’s commanding officer following investigation /Jun 7 2024
Navy captain relieved for ‘loss of confidence’ following investigation /Apr 5 2024
Navy fires captain of USS Ohio guided missile submarine /Mar 13 2024
Navy fires commodore of destroyer squadron for ‘loss of confidence’ /Feb 10 2024
Navy fires captain of a destroyer for ‘loss of confidence’ /Feb 6 2024
Navy fires commander of E/A-18G squadron for ‘loss of confidence’ /Dec 22 2023
Navy fires head of Amphibious Squadron 5 for ‘loss of confidence’ /Dec 2 2023
Captain of missile submarine USS Alabama fired for ‘loss of confidence’ /Sep 25 2023
Getting canned for running the ship aground makes sense but all these others?
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graphite
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Maybe I missed it in the story, did the men refer to him as "Old Yellow Stain"?!
They never do say, publicly.
That's part of why I assume it's sexual, or in some other way moral (not professional). It's possible the Navy is routinely giving ships to captains who cannot handle them safely, but I think that's unlikely; I think it's more probable that they have other sorts of problems.
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