The Navy said Yaste was relieved of duty “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command the guided-missile destroyer” that’s currently deployed in the Gulf of Oman. The statement didn’t elaborate about why Yaste was replaced.
I wonder if he truly deserved it. It would be really lame if the justification was purely the bad PR from this photo. I imagine knowing your way around a rifle has nothing to do with running a boat, and vice versa.
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.
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 grip needs to be really close, otherwise you cant aim properly to hit those tiny little targets that are super far away!
I wonder if he truly deserved it. It would be really lame if the justification was purely the bad PR from this photo. I imagine knowing your way around a rifle has nothing to do with running a boat, and vice versa.
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.
I am not a gun nut, I have never even fired anything but an air rifle, but I can absolutely see how bad his form is.
Someone’s patting him on the shoulder.
“Sir. Sir. There’s something you should be aware of, sir.”