Sadly...This Is Real...Posted On IG by US Navy...

[Averageman]

I dunno. I don't think the risk of punishment is worth the reward of screwing with an officer on social media. Occam's Razor and all, probably people not paying attention.

Never underestimate the E-4 Mafia.

[chuckman]

Never underestimate the E-4 Mafia.

I was njp'd, twice, for relatively small things. Something like this encroaches on ucmj violations, and those are real consequences.

[sidewaysil80]

so instead of bracing the bipod on the barricade, he ended up resting the gas block on it

Maybe I’m misreading your critique, are you suggesting he shoot off the bipod rather then what he appears to be doing which is using it as a contact point with the barricade allowing him to presumably lean his weight forward into the weapon and barricade? That would provide much more support then simply using the bipods traditionally off that barricade.

[Averageman]

I was njp'd, twice, for relatively small things. Something like this encroaches on ucmj violations, and those are real consequences.

Honestly, in a case like this, it might be best for the Officer not to blow his cool and to learn a lesson from this.
Pointing the finger at the exact Knucklehead might be less important than understanding "My Men think I'm a dick and are out to "F" me, what can I do to be a better Man and Officer to stop this frpo, happening?" Thus avoiding this ever happening again and getting a better feeling of another side of Leadership.

I could tell you War Stories for a week about how young Enlisted and Junior NCO's have gotten some really good "Payback".
I have found it entertaining.

[chuckman]

Honestly, in a case like this, it might be best for the Officer not to blow his cool and to learn a lesson from this.
Pointing the finger at the exact Knucklehead might be less important than understanding "My Men think I'm a dick and are out to "F" me, what can I do to be a better Man and Officer to stop this frpo, happening?" Thus avoiding this ever happening again and getting a better feeling of another side of Leadership.

I could tell you War Stories for a week about how young Enlisted and Junior NCO's have gotten some really good "Payback".
I have found it entertaining.

We're assuming the CO is a prick and this was done on purpose. Or the CO is a prick and it was an accident. Maybe he's a well-liked CO. In any case I think the navy's social media 'department' is not under his purview as that pic was retracted 10 minutes after it was posted.

[Coal Dragger]

I dunno. I don't think the risk of punishment is worth the reward of screwing with an officer on social media. Occam's Razor and all, probably people not paying attention.

I’ve known PLENTY of E3’s and E4’s who strait up don’t give three shits about some petty punishment who would have pulled a joke like that. They’re not making the .mil a career and could care less about an article 15 for something like making their idiot CO look like an idiot.

[Striker6]

I’m less concerned of who’s fault it was that the scope was mounted backwards and more concerned that the CO didn’t realize nor understand that it was when he was sending rounds “down range”.

[Averageman]

I’ve known PLENTY of E3’s and E4’s who strait up don’t give three shits about some petty punishment who would have pulled a joke like that. They’re not making the .mil a career and could care less about an article 15 for something like making their idiot CO look like an idiot.

We had a guy come up hot on a piss test and he had 9 days left in the Army.
Because the guy was on the Commanders Tank, the Commander lost his mind. Top tells the Commander, "You can do whatever you like, but really, just ignore it and let him go home." by the time anyone would say anything, the Guy would be home in the States.
Oh Hell No, 9 Days Restriction and Extra Duty until he went back to the States. His extra duty was repainting the Commanders Tank.
"
So when you traversed the Turret over the front of the Tank, in Big Bold Camoflage letters was the word "DICK !"

[chuckman]

I’m less concerned of who’s fault it was that the scope was mounted backwards and more concerned that the CO didn’t realize nor understand that it was when he was sending rounds “down range”.

Why should the CO have known (aside from looking through it and saying 'that ain't right')?

[Diamondback]

I could tell you War Stories for a week about how young Enlisted and Junior NCO's have gotten some really good "Payback".
I have found it entertaining.

Not necessarily only Juniors... granted the 1960s was a different time and military, but Grandpa retired as an E-7 and Superintendent of a squadron machine shop, and once told me that his approach to dealing with meddling airmen who messed with crap just for the sake of messing with it in HIS shop would find the offender ordered to stand at attention next to a vise on an out-of-the-way workbench, with their hands clamped in the vise* and ordered to remain standing thus until ordered otherwise by either himself or the First Shirt.
*Not hard enough to injure, just enough to barely immobilize the offending hand - more a symbolic gesture than a physical punishment, trying to remind them that as he once told me "everything around us in this shop is something that the SECOND you don't respect it it CAN and WILL kill you."