[GOPJ]

Maybe some 'sexual weirdo Captain' was pushing for privilege for his young but incompetent lover... Cute young men - new way to promotions and perks?

DO YOU WANT YOUR YOUNG SONS TO SERVE AS BOY TOYS FOR PERVERTS? KEEP THEM OUT OF THE US NAVY

[circlecity]

The lens cap is also on and he’s using a chicken wing grip. Dude has never trained with a rifle in his life.

[hinckley buzzard]

Maybe related to the spate of Navy ships running into each other.

[rightwingcrazy]

I’m reassured by his confident stance, and the guiding hand on his shoulder.

[combat_boots]

There is an image of a US ship out there with rusting sides. The captain hadn’t had people painting it.

[donozark]

Perhaps the Captain is channelling Bill Clinton. Recall when the world’s most famous draft dodger stood in a tower on the Korean DMZ and held his binoculars backwards?

[PIF]

was recently photographed shooting a 5.56×45mm M4 carbine with the optics installed backward ... and both end caps closed.

[Chainmail]

Kind of symbolic of today's version of American military leadership:

1. Tall and reasonably photogenic

2. Service history of never risking anything, having any nonapproved opinions and never got into trouble.

3. Has no problem with DEI policies - even if they impinge on his unit's readiness and morale, would never dispute orders telling him/her/it to go to sea/deploying with unfit equipment, insufficient manning - including clearly unfit personnel, substandard training, unresolved mechanical issues.

4. Striving desperately to get ahead in rank.

Leaders like Halsey, Puller, Edson, McCauliff, Patton and many others would never be accepted today.

[Bob434]

Th3 navy could,claim it is engaged in psyops by making the enemy think it is incompetent.

[sphinx]

Are we sure that he wasn't demonstrating the Navy's new openness to People of Blindness the visually impaired the handicapped the differently abled formerly marginalized and excluded minorities?

The terminology gets harder all the time.

But anyhow, if the services can't hit their recruiting targets by appealing to anti-patriotism, contempt for country, and sexual deviancy, it will become necessary to open the doors even wider.

[wafflehouse]

some E-4 armorer is in big trouble LOL

[FlingWingFlyer]

A military made up a bunch of freeloading foreigners “on the cow trail to citizenship” who can’t even communicate with one another is going to get their asses kicked every time.

[golux]

Bump.

[null and void]

Sun Tzu, ‘Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.’

[03A3]

It’s photoshopped and really poorly done. No rings and rear ring mount at turret?

[4yearlurker]

Who remembers when our great Commander in Chief Bill Clinton went to the DMZ in Korea and was looking out across the DMZ with binoculars with the lens caps still on.

[cherry]

how pathetic.....

give me a farm boy who knows how to work things and fix things over any of these perfumed princes in our military.....bunch of stupid wimps....

[M Kehoe]

Cmdr the USS John S. McCain

Makes sense

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