Posted on 04/12/2024 4:21:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Just in the last two days we have reported on major issues with the U.S. military, ranging from delays in every major Navy shipbuilding program, U.S. Navy Facing Major Shipbuilding Delays While China’s Navy Expansion Accelerates, to problems with military recruiting: Army Invites Retirees as Old as 70 to Return to Active Duty in Attempt to Fix Recruiting Woes.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg, and all of you are likely well aware of the deteriorating state of our military under Joe Biden.
But through all this, and the other foibles of today’s DEI/CRT-centric military, we always sort of assumed a basic competence in, you know, the mission, i.e., shooting weapons.
Well, not any more.
From ZeroHedge: “We’re Going To Lose A Major War”: US Navy Deletes Photo Of Ship Commander Shooting Rifle With Backwards Scope:
Cmdr. Cameron Yaste, the Commanding Officer of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56), was recently photographed shooting a 5.56×45mm M4 carbine with the optics installed backward.
The now-deleted image and press release on the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service website featured Yaste shooting the M4 with the Trijicon VCOG scope installed backward while pointed at a giant target balloon.
Here’s what the press release said before it was deleted:
Cmdr. Cameron Yaste, the Commanding Officer of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56), fires at the “killer tomato” [i.e. a sea-deployed practice target] during a gun shoot. The ship is in US 7th Fleet conducting routine operations. 7th Fleet is the US Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with Allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific Region....
I bet “they/them” knows all of the pronouns and has a DEI proficiency rating of “Outstanding - Super Woke”..
“The Left ruins everything that it touches.” — Dennis Prager.
“Everything woke turns to sh*t!” — Donald John Trump.
PING!
This is part of Biden’s ROE that you cant fire your weapon at a target over 100 yards. Installing it backward makes the target appear further away...
Is that Obama’s hand on his shoulder?
Unlike his superiors in DC, at least this putz does have the barrel pointed down range.
That is one ship that won't join the fray. It'll never get out of the harbor due to continuously turning to the left.
“Aim small, miss small.”
does it make sense to use that scope while wearing sunglasses
Captain aiming at the ocean 100 yards out. Wonder if he hit it?
It’s tough to square stories like this with the desire to go to war against Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, etc... Of course, we have more diversity than these other places, so we are stronger by definition.
Diversity is our streemf.
He even looks like Biden.
at least the rifle was pointed away from the shooter.
At the beginning of WW2 it took about a year for the Navy to shake out the political princes and the seatwarmers so that we could get on with fighting the war. We won’t have that much time, the next time.
Prior to WWII our troops trained with broomsticks and drove cars labeled “tank”.
I think we will be fine.
This isn’t the same country that we had during WWII.
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