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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 14 hours ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/noncredibledefense@piefed.social

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[–] mech@feddit.org 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.