Originally Posted by
Wake27
As horrible as this image is, let’s be real. That gun is a force pro measure while they’re in port and the CO is literally the last person on that ship that would be using it. Yes, it’s trash that he is so poorly trained to not realize many of the issues but the bigger problem is the person that put it together like that, which I’ll bet a whole month of my base pay that it wasn’t him and then the other people that must’ve seen it and said nothing.
The Navy needs to be ridiculed for their clueless social media managers and armorers, sure. They should also get a bit for any random sailor not knowing enough to know what’s wrong or right in this circumstance. But they’ve been pretty effective at blasting shit out of the sky and sea over the last several months, which is far more important.
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I don't think anyone, especially here, is criticizing the effectiveness of the Navy as a whole. I think it's mostly this guy, whoever set up that rifle in the first place and everyone standing around KNOWING it might be a photo op that would give the navy a black eye but said NOTHING because nobody wanted to embarrass a senior rank or be the one to say "Pardon me sir, you are standing in shit."
Also this could have happened to almost any branch of the military. And couldn't agree more that whoever is in charge of the social media for the Navy NEEDS to be educated enough about "most things" that they prevent this kind of shit from happening in the first place. The Marines were also dead on when they adopted the "Every Marine is first and foremost a rifleman" mindset and required everyone to qualify once a year with a rifle.
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Chuck, we miss ya man.
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