Posted on 09/03/2024 2:23:34 PM PDT by hardspunned
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The commander of a Navy destroyer that’s helping protect the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Middle East has been relieved of duty about four months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with a scope mounted backward.
The image brought the Navy considerable ridicule on social media. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Cameron Yaste, commanding officer of the destroyer USS John McCain, was removed on Friday.
The Navy said Yaste was relieved of duty “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command the guided-missile destroyer” that’s currently deployed in the Gulf of Oman. The statement didn’t elaborate about why Yaste was replaced.
In April, a photo posted on the Navy’s social media showed Yaste in a firing stance gripping the rifle with a backward scope.
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USS John McCain.
LOL
The real story: which of his underlings decided to set him up?
SOMEONE put the scope on backwards before handing it to him.
They just want to give his job to a chick.
He’s so good with a rifle he practices that way just to make it harder. Just think what he can do with a ship.
Everything the left touches.
Everything.
The namesake was his father. Admiral John McCain creator of the WWII “Big Blue Blanket” air superiority concept.
The namesake was his father. Admiral John McCain creator of the WWII “Big Blue Blanket” air superiority concept.
“They just want to give his job to a chick.”
And make her gay and lame.
That photo was so messed up I just assumed it was some sort of Q comms, seeing as how it was on the USS McCain.
Admiral “Rachel” Levine is available.
He’s so good with a rifle he practices that way just to make it harder.
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It makes him feel like a Marine sniper on every shot.
The best comment I saw on X about the photo was:
*misses ocean*
I don’t know why that made me laugh.
I bet he had all the proper pronouns though.
Since when were swabbies required to know how to shoot?
j/k
Better check on how the missles are loaded.
His father was a submariner. It was his grandfather who was an airdale (though his background was Surface). Both were Admirals. The ship was initially named after both John S. McCain Sr and John S. McCain Jr. Just before Senator McCain passed away, the ship was re-dedicated and is now named for all 3.
But it was John Thatch, serving on McCain Sr's staff, who created "Big Blue Blanket". Thatch eventually made Flag and also had a Frigate named after him.
“I don’t know why that made me laugh.”
Same reason as “broad side of barn feels safer now” :)
I believe it is named for grandfather, father and son.
Probably a Marine with a real twisted sense of humor that I much appreciate.
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