Corey0372
AH fanatic
^^ this ^^
A USN or USMC NCO should have been behind that rifle if the intent was to do some sort of social media "marketing" or "recruiting", etc.. or.. if they were actually needing to engage a target for some reason...
Whether or not the optic was on backwards IMO is inconsequential... the fact that hes showboating for a camera rather than the people that SHOULD be in that position tells me quite a bit about his leadership (or lack thereof)...
The Marine Corps got a bit of trolling in when this happened, they put a picture of a LCpl firing from the deck of a ship on one of their official press pages a day or so after the debacle, kind of a funny jab at the Navy.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-04-11/navy-backwards-scope-photo-13528758.html
We had a Marine infantry company next to our compound in Afghanistan. There was a 1stSgt over there that gave all the grunts over there constant hell about white socks, cuffed sleeves, etc.
Normal 1stSgt stuff, but I guess he was a little over the top at times (never bothered us).
Anyway we shared a makeshift DFAC with them, and all our food and cooking equipment was kept in the building. One night there was a huge fire that broke out and everyone just kinda grabbed the nearest fire extinguisher, water hose, whatever they could find and started trying to put out the fire (lost basically everything, really sucked for a bit).
In the madness the aforementioned 1stSgt had just thrown his boots on and ran out to help and whatnot, but the 1stSgt had failed to blouse his boots....
One of the grunts managed to snap a picture of him with unbloused boots and the fire raging in the background. They printed it with the caption "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DONT BLOUSE OUR BOOTS" and posted a couple copies around their camp. Was pretty funny, and I don't think they ever found the culprit.