This was a post that was put up, they got eviscerated.. The updated post and comment thread is
added below the fold. Go read the comments in that one....
For some it might not be too obvious, for others, it was clear as day.
🎉 From engaging in practice gun shoots, conducting maintenance, testing fuel, and participating in sea and anchor, the #USNavy is always ready to serve 💪. Thank you for pointing out our rifle scope error in the previous post. Picture has been removed until EMI is completed! pic.twitter.com/3iwpVxszUK
— U.S. Navy (@USNavy) April 9, 2024
I don't have any social accounts (who needs 'em) so I can't sign in to read the comments, but I think I can guess:
ReplyDelete🎶One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong...
Fucking Navy's fallen far since I served back in the Reagan years.
Surprised they didn't have any pics of them in S.F. shooting aerosols into the atmosphere to combat global warming.
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Ditto. I cannot believe how all our branches have fallen since then.
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Not to defend idiots, but every large organization has a social media dept made up of people who have no idea what the organization does, but sincerely believes their own BS and loves them some corporate gobble-de-speak. You know, the same idiots that came up with "Quality is job 1". We regularly make fun of the shit that downtown puts out on social media, we just gotta be careful to make sure it's an anonymous dig rather than traceable.
ReplyDeleteAt one point the social media types and marketing dept got so high on their own supply they went to purchasing and wound up signing a contract with a supplier of trash recycle resin to kickstart a company recycling program based on a just-works test run I was involved with. I was very careful prior to the test to explain this was only proof of concept and the modifications made to run the test would not work in any sort of commercial environment. When they came back and told us to start running that shit on a commercial basis, we just laughed in their face. Someone's budget had to eat a damn-near a billion dollar loss, but I'm guessing no one lost their job.
Compared to that, I think a backwards scope ain't that big a deal.
posted as Anon to save my job
And avoid being called ignorant
DeleteMy dad always said if you give an idiot enough rope, they'll hang themselves.
ReplyDeleteThe other pictures aren't much better. Becky falling asleep at her station. Tian sabotaging a plane. Woman driver trying to remember which side is port. And Dwyane mixing a fresh batch to pass the piss test.
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DeleteThe thing that got me about the now-deleted set is they also had the white guy with the firearm (scope issue not withstanding) while the ‘diverse’ others were engaged in other pursuits. Replacement pic isn’t much better—true diversity not shown.
ReplyDeleteThe braid on the ball cap means it's probably the ship CO/XO in a photo op. The gunner's mates on that ship are idiots.
ReplyDeleteThe GMs are FN with the CO. Make him look stupid.
DeleteNotice the replacement pic has all female looking faces in it. That's gonna make it all better.
ReplyDeleteI served in the Navy back in the 60's. From what I've seen, especially with that poofter Levine and other FLAG RANK cross dressers, today's Navy is unrecognizable from the one I served in. I imagine it's the same in all of the armed services. What should happen to these insane POS's is being dropped in the wake in the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific.
Then that dumb fook Blinken at the State Dept. is fomenting WW3 by telling the world that Ukraine should join NATO, making way for NATO member countries to attack Russia.
Total insanity.
Nemo
My wife's family is all Navy. When I met my future father-in-law who was a retired officer he was going on and on about times on an Aircraft Carrier and this was during a break in college in the late 70s. My thoughts were how to shut him up as I could care less about the Navy I cared about his daughter. One of my future brother-in-law was there and he had also been in the Navy but had left.
ReplyDeleteAs I left from meeting them my future father-in-law was still droning on. I finally said: "You have be nuts or like guys to spend months with 5000 other guys on a ship with no women in the Navy." My future father-in-law started sputtering, but my future brother-in-law said you are right and that was why I got out as fast as I could. I always that my father-in-law did not like me but my wife told me of all his son-in-laws I was his favorite.
SNAFU
ReplyDeleteOne thing about shooting at the ocean is you can’t miss.
ReplyDeleteYou can if you mount the scope with the objective lens nearest the eye and don't take the lens covers off ...
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Reminds me of the Cheech and Chong drive in movie, Buggery on the High Seas.
ReplyDeleteThis is worse than you think. See that little gold embroidery on the right pocket of his uniform? That is the command-at-sea emblem. This guy is a current or post-command O-5, maybe O-6. Could be an O-5 post command squadron skipper now doing OpsO or RO or any one of the primary assistants to the CO on a CVN. But at that age and experience level, he should know better. Of course, sometimes junior personnel stick it to the man and maybe this guy was set up to play the part of the fool. Or maybe not.
ReplyDeleteside note- Levine is NOT Navy- Levine is US Public Health Service Corps, which just happens to wear navy looking uniforms.
Still not as bad as the Air Force contractor who last week was on her phone/app for drone, and walked into her drone prop…while it was spinning.
ReplyDeleteI don't mean to offend any Military members or Veterans and I never served but I will say this: I go to various firing ranges for handguns, rifles, and trap and skeet with shotguns and take a lot of people with me. I am constantly astonished at Military people, some of them Officers, who don't know the basics of firearm function or handling much less know how to hit anything. I would have thought that you most basic duty if you put on any uniform was to know how to use a weapon.
ReplyDeleteI spent over twenty years in various Air Force components (ANG, Reserve and AD) and my experience was most Air Force members were questionable with small arms. There are exceptions, of course. In my opinion, a large percentage of members don't realize the mission is to fly, FIGHT, and win. If only every branch adopted the "Every man a rifleman" philosophy of the USMC...
DeleteEx USAF E-4 discharged in May of 1966 carrying an expert marksmanship ribbon with me even though my AFSC was 30352, Heavy Ground Radar-AC&W Maintenance. Us Texas country boys went into the military knowing how to reach out and touch things with a rifle or a shotgun. You are right though, the USAF gave little to no training on small arms much less on battlefield tactics and how to stay alive when the sh** hit the fan. If you entered the service with some of the skills, you left with what you brought with you.
DeleteWhen my enlistment end was near a defining moment that made my decision to get out easy happened during the Cuban missle crisis. I got tagged to walk a four hour guard duty post around an ammunition dump there at Keesler. My load out for this duty was no radio and an M1 Carbine with no ammunition. I asked the dumb ass butterbar what the hell I was supposed to do if we were infiltrated and attacked and he had no answer. I became a short timer at that moment-- served out the rest of my tour and got the hell out.
Former 19D that changed branches to Air Force. Let's just say my first range experience at Lackland AFB SP school was eye opening and quite frankly, terrifying. I took for granted everyone knew how to remove a live round from the chamber both safely, and without loading the next one in the mag. I shouldn't be surprised, their hands on time was VERY limited at their advanced school, and I believe it was only a week for them to cover pistol, rifle and the XM129. It might have been 1.5 but that was forever ago - I just remember it being very short, very few rounds downrange and IMO not nearly enough hands on time to get comfortable with the platforms. They also didn't carry rifles daily like we did at Boot Camp, fire thousands of rounds, constantly disassembling/reassembling and function checking their rifles throughout their training, or have field exercises to include sleeping with them in their fart sacks.
DeleteAs messed up as the man with the rifle pic is, I don't think (as someone who's never been in the Navy- So my opinion probably stinks) is that small arms fire is really not the way to go unless perhaps you are special forces. The real Navy strength to me is in big guns like the old battleships of World War Two, or 5 inch guns, mounted 50 cals, Or guided missiles perhaps. On the other hand though if you are going to field a weapon of any level, you need to know when it's put together right. Obviously in the pic the shooter did not realize it was jacked up or he would not have gotten his pick taken that way.
ReplyDeleteWait, what?
ReplyDeleteA retarded officer in the Navy?
Stop the presses...>yawn<.
They got rid of rum and the lash, so all that leaves is buggery, and jail with the added possibility of drowning.
I always wondered what they did in the Ladies Department of the Navy
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