He was the better Jack for the show. RDA has a Bruce Campbell like quality where even when he says or does something that should make him unlikable, he's still likable. In a show this is good because we like likable main characters.
The movie version of Jack needed legitimate friction with Daniel that felt serious.
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.
He has a vertical grip mounted, but it is very far to the rear. It is a strange place for it. The photo caused such a stir that the Captain in it was relieved for a loss of confidence.
The above photo was found with this caption:
National Liberation Front irregulars (Viet Cong, or VC) training with a variety of rifles in a likely staged photo, reportedly taken in the Southeast Region, March 1967 (note that M14). Unknown photo provenance. Access to North Vietnamese documents and scholarship subsequent to the war has blurred the distinction between the two organizations, as most VC were, in fact, NVA. Though particularly true after the Tet Offensive, the blurring was already underway in 1966.
The M14E2 came out of the US Army Infantry board's dissatisfaction with the M14 with a bipod's performance as an automatic rifle by early 1962, and by that time the M15 had been canceled.
The board had a prototype made by modifying a standard M14, which came to be known as the USIAB rifle. The handgrip, stock, and sling were redesigned. The stock was meant to provide in-line recoil. A muzzle device to stabilize the rifle in full automatic fire was fitted.
After all the changes had been finalized, the new design was fielded as the M14E2, and the designation for adoption was changed to M14A1 in 1966.
The Bismarck knows where it is at all times.
The Van Halen radiation belts rock too hard though.
Generally speaking, the idea of using infantry fire against planes very quickly became outdated. It was a drill developed against the slower, less armored WW1/ early inter-war era planes. WW2 era plane models quickly advanced to become too fast and armored.
If I recognize this bridge correctly, I believe above the top of the photo on the right.
Realistically most people don't shoot beyond 200m and even fewer are doing it on a gun that has a 1x purpose. A 3-9x scope for dedicated long(er) range gun, and then 1-4x type optics for other guns makes sense.
But some people are outliers or just want the options I suppose.
I really dig this game and want to do more videos with a little bit of editing (most missions have long downtime as I walk across them) and some themed loadouts.