US Navy warship commander mocked for holding
rifle with scope mounted backward
New York Post,
by
Yaron Steinbuch
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
4/11/2024 7:48:14 AM
The commander of a US Navy warship is apparently a not-so-sharpshooter.
A commanding officer of the USS John S. McCain, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, was mocked online after he was photographed holding an assault weapon with its scope mounted backward as he took aim at a target known as a “killer tomato.”
Cmdr. Cameron Yaste “observes the live-fire exercise event. The ship is in U.S. 7th Fleet conducting routine operations,” read a caption posted by Defense Visual Information Distribution Service alongside an image of him holding up the weapon with the Trijicon VCOG scope installed backward while pointed at a large target balloon.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Lazyman 4/11/2024 7:55:31 AM (No. 1697117)
Something tells me he uses the right pronouns.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
3XALADY 4/11/2024 7:58:28 AM (No. 1697119)
Obviously our military is becoming joke. Not good with the news this morning of an imminent strike from Iran to somewhere. Raise your hand if you didn't think something along those lines would be happening with Old Yeller in office.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
plomke 4/11/2024 8:08:51 AM (No. 1697126)
This is typical of an organization run by simpleminded children/politicians and not professionals.
The purpose of the military is to break things and kill people.
It is not there to reform society,be inclusive or nationbuild.
And this nonsense has gone on for too long to be stopped now.
Lets just get used to sharia law given to us by our Chinese overlords...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 4/11/2024 8:14:24 AM (No. 1697130)
Who is the instructor who has his hand on his shoulder? One of Barry's?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
TCloud 4/11/2024 8:25:36 AM (No. 1697134)
And the Russkies look on at us with stunned amazement!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
griddog1 4/11/2024 8:57:31 AM (No. 1697150)
These are the people that will be leading your sons and daughters into battle?????
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
felixcat 4/11/2024 8:59:59 AM (No. 1697151)
This is what really angers me about the DoD and Congress. Billions keep getting dumped into the "best military" and yet, what are those billions paying for?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
padiva 4/11/2024 9:01:36 AM (No. 1697153)
Kinda like when BJC was potus and at the Korean demilitarized zone. He was looking through binoculars to North Korea.......with the lens covers on the binoculars.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 4/11/2024 9:04:11 AM (No. 1697155)
Odds are, since he commands a guided missile destroyer, firing a rifle isn't going to be necessary. Or maybe, he felt hitting a target with a scope on correctly was too easy and decided to make it a real challenge by making the object look ten times farther away.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/11/2024 9:06:57 AM (No. 1697159)
"Why does that target look so far away?"
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
joew9 4/11/2024 9:15:52 AM (No. 1697163)
The article said "he" but is he a he or is he a she? I can never be sure nowadays. He doesn't seem to be wearing jewelry but maybe the camera just missed it. He has a wedding ring but perhaps that's for his significant other. I'm just so confused nowadays.
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The Red Chinese navy will be interested in this.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 4/11/2024 9:30:06 AM (No. 1697171)
How often does the captain of a modern warship need to use a rifle? Who mounted the scope?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
konocti95 4/11/2024 9:48:11 AM (No. 1697179)
Crew pranks skipper?
Or
Contest to see who can shoot best with the scope reversed.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
CivilServant 4/11/2024 9:53:29 AM (No. 1697180)
I’d suggest that #11 got to college and obtain a biology degree….lol…..but I wouldn’t suggest College to my worst enemy nowadays.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Encore 4/11/2024 9:57:52 AM (No. 1697182)
Hopefully this was done as a joke and got taken out of context. Really can’t imagine he could see anything through that.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
winmag 4/11/2024 10:00:13 AM (No. 1697183)
An obvious metaphor for the whole stinking dumpster fire Biden regime.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/11/2024 10:02:20 AM (No. 1697186)
It's bad enough having to be the Captain of the John McCain without getting caught in this picture.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/11/2024 10:05:00 AM (No. 1697188)
"Objects may be closer than they appear."
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Mushroom 4/11/2024 10:08:44 AM (No. 1697191)
And now you know why we need NCOs.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
PostAway 4/11/2024 10:38:29 AM (No. 1697212)
I am the wife and sister-in-law of USNA grads. Their father was a Master Chief. #20 nails it. The picture is embarrassing but not surprising because the skipper of a ship would almost never need to use a rifle. In this case I would suspect the Captain is not popular with the very subordinates he relies on and is being made a fool publicly but I could be wrong.
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In fairness, undoubtedly some NCO handed him the rifle assembled wrong.
It would take me a second to figure out such a stupid error, too.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/11/2024 10:38:54 AM (No. 1697214)
The Navy is taught all about ships, NOT RIFLES.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 4/11/2024 10:40:40 AM (No. 1697219)
I don't care how long you have been on a ship, that is so obvious that it's upsetting. He and the ship he commands seem to go together pretty well.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 4/11/2024 11:41:01 AM (No. 1697281)
Frank Drebin?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
slipstik 4/11/2024 11:44:25 AM (No. 1697283)
Lucky for captain Bligh.there wasn't a laser rangefinder on that scope.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Sully 4/11/2024 11:46:05 AM (No. 1697284)
Everyone knows when you look through the wrong end of a scope it makes the target smaller. He was just the difficulty of the shot.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Rat Patrol 4/11/2024 11:55:29 AM (No. 1697294)
USS John McCain..Nothing more needs to be said..
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 4/11/2024 11:55:51 AM (No. 1697295)
Doesn't surprise me with the kind of military 'leaders' we have today.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 4/11/2024 12:14:03 PM (No. 1697315)
The CO can't be expected to be setting up weapons, he just looked through what was handed to him by someone. I'm sure that the next thing he did was say "Why does everything look so small?"
Whoever is in charge of weapons on that boat is a damned incompetent idiot. But, it's The New Navy, and the Chief in charge of weapons is probably a woman who pretends to be a man, or some similar freakshow escapee.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 4/11/2024 2:12:58 PM (No. 1697386)
He was a weapons officer before his command. which erases the Navy knows ships not rifles. Besides the Navy used to have basics rifle training. If it was a prank still doesn't help him. He took control of that weapon, he was responsible for it. This captain needs to be sent to some dar land Nav y base where he will only be responsible for shooing seagulls away from the mess hall.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
danu 4/11/2024 3:25:56 PM (No. 1697439)
bwaaaahaaahaaaa i am laughing and crying and i can't get up. rotflmao. reeeeeeeeee
mirable dictu , the curse of mcvain did not cause him to sink the whole bloody ship. billion$$$ saved.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 4/11/2024 5:55:26 PM (No. 1697491)
I'm no navy vet, but seems to me that if an enemy were close enough for a rifle to be effective as a defensive weapon (the skipper does seem to be standing on the deck of his ship), that enemy would have already exhaused their full inventory of longer-range weapons (cruise missiles, torpedoes, artillery, fighter-bombers, etc).
In other words, that rifle would represent a sort of last stand, and the enemy would be so close-quarters that a scope wouldn't help that much anyway.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/11/2024 6:13:02 PM (No. 1697506)
Not only is the scope mounted backward, the lens covers are flipped closed.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
garyhope 4/12/2024 1:55:14 PM (No. 1698028)
Thanks for your comment #21 PostAway,.....
As the "Army Brat" son of a US Army Airborne officer,....My dad always said,..."Don't mess with the NCO's. They're the ones who really run everything" He had great respect for them.
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