"We're going to lose a major war": US Navy deletes photo of ship commander shooting rifle with scope optics mounted backwards
By newseditors // 2024-04-12
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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. (Article by Tyler Durden republished from ZeroHedge.com) 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" 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.
Here's how to properly use the scope... The website Internet Archive saved a snapshot of the press release: Netizens mocked the Navy commander, and that's probably why the service deleted the image and text. Here's what the internet had to say: Yaste merely shows how the US Navy is unprepared to fight the next major conflict. Sigh... Read more at: ZeroHedge.com
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