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An honest mistake or inexcusable ignorance?
An honest mistake or inexcusable ignorance?
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The twitter post points out some valid mistakes -- and makes some mistakes of its own, such as the notion that the lens caps are on simply because the poster doesn't see them sticking up. Yes, the Trijicon VCOG comes with flip-up lens caps. But those flip-up lens caps are easily removed. If that scope had the flip-up lens caps the hinges would be visible. No hinge means no lens cap.
The main thing that photo tells us is that most Navy personnel aren't trained to use the M4A1, particularly the military and civilian employees handling the Navy's social media accounts.
One of the snide comments was "he's holding the rifle like he has never in his life fired a rifle" but the truth is that he probably never had fired a rifle in his life, and almost certainly not an M4A1. Why would the Commanding Officer of a US Navy Destroyer waste his time shooting a rifle at a giant balloon? Answer: ONLY because some stupid photographers from Department of the Navy were taking pictures of the ship's training and someone wanted him in an "action" photo, so they handed him a rifle and told him to fire a burst at the target.
By the way, that VCOG is an LPVO, almost certainly set at 1 power. Looking through it at 1 power it would not be instantly obvious that it was backwards if you are not familiar with it.
Yes, the rifle is set up completely wrong. And, yes, THAT does show a problem. Did someone set up the rifle that way because they didn't know what they were doing - did someone do it as a joke - or did someone who doesn't deal with rifles just put it together for the photo? I don't know. YOU don't know. But I can guarantee that by now the C.O. in that photo knows who assembled that rifle and that everyone involved on his ship knows a lot more about the M4A1 and the VCOG than they will ever need to know.
Now for all the US Army experts talking s***, how many of you can set up a 5 inch/62 caliber Mark 45 Mod 4 gun? Or a BGM-109 Tomahawk missile? Or a Mark 32 torpedo launcher and Mark 54 torpedo?
The main thing that photo tells us is that most Navy personnel aren't trained to use the M4A1, particularly the military and civilian employees handling the Navy's social media accounts.
One of the snide comments was "he's holding the rifle like he has never in his life fired a rifle" but the truth is that he probably never had fired a rifle in his life, and almost certainly not an M4A1. Why would the Commanding Officer of a US Navy Destroyer waste his time shooting a rifle at a giant balloon? Answer: ONLY because some stupid photographers from Department of the Navy were taking pictures of the ship's training and someone wanted him in an "action" photo, so they handed him a rifle and told him to fire a burst at the target.
By the way, that VCOG is an LPVO, almost certainly set at 1 power. Looking through it at 1 power it would not be instantly obvious that it was backwards if you are not familiar with it.
Yes, the rifle is set up completely wrong. And, yes, THAT does show a problem. Did someone set up the rifle that way because they didn't know what they were doing - did someone do it as a joke - or did someone who doesn't deal with rifles just put it together for the photo? I don't know. YOU don't know. But I can guarantee that by now the C.O. in that photo knows who assembled that rifle and that everyone involved on his ship knows a lot more about the M4A1 and the VCOG than they will ever need to know.
Now for all the US Army experts talking s***, how many of you can set up a 5 inch/62 caliber Mark 45 Mod 4 gun? Or a BGM-109 Tomahawk missile? Or a Mark 32 torpedo launcher and Mark 54 torpedo?
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SFC Casey O'Mally
I cannot set up any of those, MSG Thomas Currie . But I also would not be posing in a photo of without learning at least enough to make sure I was doing it right.
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MSG Thomas Currie
SFC Casey O'Mally - I feel the same way about wanting to know what I'm doing before a photo op, on the other hand, I have actually been in some Army photo ops and I don't recall anyone in charge ever giving a damn if what we were doing made sense as long as it made what they thought was a good picture. Or anyone actually checking photos before they were published. Fortunately my days were before you could instantly go viral on social media.
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SGT (Join to see)
SFC Casey, you're right, the photo focus is supposed to be on the CO of a ship, it's ashame that Humans only focus on the negitive to bring out the conversation.
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