Thats cazy. Rangers were REQUIRED to swim in full gear to graduate
US Navy warship commander mocked for holding rifle with scope mounted backward
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'Okay, I got to ask the question... I looked at the photo and how does one determine that the scope is mounted backwards?'
I guess you've already answered your own question.
My comment is: One must understand that many/most higher level Command Officers are much like our current politicians--basically ^$$ kissers who climbed the ladder w/o knowing much about their business. IMHO, any rank above Major is more about the 'big picture' than about sending bullets downrange. Sorry if this pinches toes.
'Okay, I got to ask the question... I looked at the photo and how does one determine that the scope is mounted backwards?'
I guess you've already answered your own question.
My comment is: One must understand that many/most higher level Command Officers are much like our current politicians--basically ^$$ kissers who climbed the ladder w/o knowing much about their business. IMHO, any rank above Major is more about the 'big picture' than about sending bullets downrange. Sorry if this pinches toes.
I retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel with 24 years of active duty. As an officer in the Medical Service Corps, the only time in my entire career that I was issued a service weapon was my year in Vietnam. During most of my years of service I was required annually to attend a weapon's "familiarization" where I would fire the weapon that I would be issued in a combat zone, i.e., a service rifle when I was an 0-1 through 0-3, and a handgun when I was an 0-4 and 5. Weapon familiarization usually meant that I would be give one magazine and told to fire downrange. Often there were not even targets set up. When firing a handgun it was the same, except that some years due to ammo shortages we were given only a single round to fire.
On my own I enjoyed shooting but that had nothing to do with my official duties. I did have a period of time that despite not being a Military Police officer I served as the Provost Marshall for our small installation, and although authorized to carry a 45acp handgun, I was discouraged by the installation Commander from doing so because he said it seemed to him to be "alarming" to have one of his officers armed in that medical organization.
I mention all of this to explain that not every soldier, and certainly not every officer in the military is required to be knowledgable about firearms, let alone proficient with one. When I first arrived in Vietnam and was issued an M-16, a carefully respectful Master Sergeant at the range remarked that he was surprised with how well I was shooting since I was a Medical Service Corps officer. I told him that my shooting skills were personal and not related to my military role.
On my own I enjoyed shooting but that had nothing to do with my official duties. I did have a period of time that despite not being a Military Police officer I served as the Provost Marshall for our small installation, and although authorized to carry a 45acp handgun, I was discouraged by the installation Commander from doing so because he said it seemed to him to be "alarming" to have one of his officers armed in that medical organization.
I mention all of this to explain that not every soldier, and certainly not every officer in the military is required to be knowledgable about firearms, let alone proficient with one. When I first arrived in Vietnam and was issued an M-16, a carefully respectful Master Sergeant at the range remarked that he was surprised with how well I was shooting since I was a Medical Service Corps officer. I told him that my shooting skills were personal and not related to my military role.
MHtractorguy
Single-Sixer
This might illustrate a problem that our founding fathers noted a long time ago. Sailors sail. They do not shoot.
This is why Marines were put aboard.
Semper Fi
This is why Marines were put aboard.
Semper Fi
All indications are the picture was posted on the Navy's social media.
If the picture was fake, yet posted on official Navy social media, was it done by hackers? Or the Navy farms out there social media to someone that knows nothing about the subject matter?
If the picture was fake, yet posted on official Navy social media, was it done by hackers? Or the Navy farms out there social media to someone that knows nothing about the subject matter?
Whether real or not, the photo apparently made its way onto the Navy's social media content.
Navy Deletes Humiliating Rifle Photo
The Navy deleted a humiliating photo of a person firing a rifle with the optics on backward. See the now-deleted photo.
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RC44Mag
Buckeye
My time in the fleet I qualified with M16, M14, 1911 and shotgun. Rotated crew so many got to shoot at least once a year at Mil ranges. While in ports( home and overseas) I was on the security alert team instead of QD watch, QD watch sucked.
Got to wear my regular working uniform instead of dress uniforms, made rounds throughout the ship including wep magazines including our ASROC, Harpoon and 'others'. and check in with QD team every 1/2 hr. While doing this watch we carried .45's with 3 magazines. If we weren't on active watch and there was a security alert warning over the 1MC all SAT members were required to high tail it to the small arms locker to get a weapon be it a shotgun, .45 or M14 till the announcement was made to secure the detail.
Time I was in most of us, especially on S.A.T shot very well.
Got to wear my regular working uniform instead of dress uniforms, made rounds throughout the ship including wep magazines including our ASROC, Harpoon and 'others'. and check in with QD team every 1/2 hr. While doing this watch we carried .45's with 3 magazines. If we weren't on active watch and there was a security alert warning over the 1MC all SAT members were required to high tail it to the small arms locker to get a weapon be it a shotgun, .45 or M14 till the announcement was made to secure the detail.
Time I was in most of us, especially on S.A.T shot very well.
el caminero
Single-Sixer
"Scopes bad, lets use the left eye and walk the rounds onto target"
MHtractorguy
Single-Sixer
Looking at the photo again, I see empties in the air, no smoke from the barrel, not sure if that is recoil on his cheek, but can any of you folks blow up that lower receiver and see if that carbine is on "safe" or "auto"?
I observe there is no recoil, but there are blurred empty cases in the air. The bolt is forward.
The chances of catching 2 shells in the air, no recoil, bolt fully forward without any blurring of the fast moving bolt and blurring of the shells...
I say it's a fake.
I observe there is no recoil, but there are blurred empty cases in the air. The bolt is forward.
The chances of catching 2 shells in the air, no recoil, bolt fully forward without any blurring of the fast moving bolt and blurring of the shells...
I say it's a fake.
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OMCHamlin
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Wow. Whether I knew the answer (if you are even REMOTELY familiar with firearms, that's a single glance item) or not, you couldn't have PAID me to post your thread…
IMHO, Commander Cameron Yaste is the USN version of Gersh Kuntzman. Ya'll remember Gershy don't ya, he's the "journalist
What is it like to fire an AR-15? It’s horrifying, menacing and very very loud
It felt to me like a bazooka — and sounded like a cannon. One day after 49 people were killed in the Orlando shooting, I traveled to Philadelphia to better understand the firepower of militar…www.nydailynews.com
AND
New York Daily News journalist: Firing an AR-15 gave me PTSD - Washington Examiner
Firing an AR-15-style rifle can be a deeply traumatic experience, according to a New York-based journalist who said his recent experience with the popular rifle left him with post-traumatic stress disorder. "It feels like a bazooka — and sounds like a cannon," the New York Daily News' Gersh...www.washingtonexaminer.com
Up next:
"What is it like to eat a Slurpee? It's horrifying, menacing, and then your brain freezes!"
Plus, our breaking news followup report:
"Eating a Slurpee gave me PTSD!"
BULL'S-EYE
Buckeye
I remember that...And, I still say we need to add an eye roll emoji in the "Like" options, just for such things.Up next:
"What is it like to eat a Slurpee? It's horrifying, menacing, and then your brain freezes!"
Plus, our breaking news followup report:
"Eating a Slurpee gave me PTSD!"
I'm guessing the empty casings were photoshopped in. Possibly the scope could have been photoshopped in too for the purpose of making it look Tacticool…Heck, for that matter the whole thing could have been AI generated.
"Just have him hold a rifle for a photo op and we'll fix it later."
"Just have him hold a rifle for a photo op and we'll fix it later."
bookemdano
Single-Sixer
Probably counting Penguins in the Arctic. And yes, I know there are no penguins
in the Arctic.
el caminero
Single-Sixer
Aye that, on the eye-rollI remember that...And, I still say we need to add an eye roll emoji in the "Like" options, just for such things.
el caminero
Single-Sixer
Dintcha hear? The pollerbears is starvin cos they et-up alla pinguinesProbably counting Penguins in the Arctic. And yes, I know there are no penguins
in the Arctic.
I am getting a chuckle from Vito and his single round comment. Shades of Barney Fife!!!!
jack black
Blackhawk
News to me I never heard that .
