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If I had a nickel for every time the Navy did this with a scope I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/noncredibledefense@piefed.social

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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

I wonder if he truly deserved it. It would be really lame if the justification was purely the bad PR from this photo. I imagine knowing your way around a rifle has nothing to do with running a boat, and vice versa.

[–] mech@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not directly, but firing a rifle without being able to see shit is not a good look when you're responsible for as much firepower as a boat has. And in military doctrine, every soldier is expected to be a competent rifleman first and foremost, all other duties come on top.
On the other hand I doubt it was the Captain's idea to do this photoshoot, and if he mounted the scope.
Might just be a case of "OK, got 2 minutes in between important tasks, let's do the photo real quick" and a normal human fuck-up by whoever prepared the rifle.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I've seen speculation online that there could have been more to it, with the photo being a public tip off. Since the Captain didn't put the scope on himself, and there were surely people running the range there were many chances for people to intervene and they didn't. The speculation is that could be the sign of an unhealthy command culture where people were either so demotivated they didn't care or so actively against the Captain that they did this. Adding to the final buck stopping that the Captain himself didn't notice anything wrong with what should have been obvious.