Navy "intelligence"

[Picton]

I can see (well, sort of see) some older guy with no knowledge of the equipment he's using not understanding what he's looking through, and just assuming the terrible eye box was a result of his own user error.

I'd be that guy. Honestly.

 

[Reptile]

It was photoshopped...

Was Humiliating Navy Rifle Photo Edited?

Was the Navy's embarrassing rifle photo actually photoshopped and edited? A photo expert believes the backwards optic was added after the fact.

www.outkick.com

 

[whatluck]

my fav part is the stock is just hanging off the buffer tube

 

[Grendizer138]

It was photoshopped...

Was Humiliating Navy Rifle Photo Edited?

Was the Navy's embarrassing rifle photo actually photoshopped and edited? A photo expert believes the backwards optic was added after the fact.

www.outkick.com

Nope. If it was the Navy wouldn’t have posted that they took it down.

 

[Picton]

Nope. If it was the Navy wouldn’t have posted that they took it down.

Or maybe "we mounted the optic wrong" is a less humiliating thing to admit than "we photoshopped the optic?"

I dunno. All this crap is why I stick to irons.

 

[PappyM3]

It was photoshopped...

Was Humiliating Navy Rifle Photo Edited?

Was the Navy's embarrassing rifle photo actually photoshopped and edited? A photo expert believes the backwards optic was added after the fact.

www.outkick.com

I saw the actual instagram post… it’s real.

And the shadows on the optic are congruent with the ones on the upper.

 

[Grendizer138]

Or maybe "we mounted the optic wrong" is a less humiliating thing to admit than "we photoshopped the optic?"

I dunno. All this crap is why I stick to irons.

I would have thought it was photoshopped (does the USN even issue VCOGs?), but the apology has me thinking it was an enlisted guy playing a prank and everyone had a good laugh, even the Skipper, until PR decided to post it.

 

[fencer]

And this is why the Navy lets the Marines do the actual fighting.

Sailors are just Uber drivers for Jarheads. Once they deliver Marines, they can go back to bitching that they want longer hot showers and better desserts in the chow hall.
What an embarrassment.

 

[HorizontalHunter]

And this is why the Navy lets the Marines do the actual fighting.

Sailors are just Uber drivers for Jarheads. Once they deliver Marines, they can go back to bitching that they want longer hot showers and better desserts in the chow hall.
What an embarrassment.

All true but we have to hide the crayons.

 

[FisherTech]

Just think about this, he will retire and be sucked up by one of the Communist Anti-Gun groups as he was a senior officer who is now an Expert on Firearms as he got to Finger F**K one.

 

[Baby Billy]

Or maybe "we mounted the optic wrong" is a less humiliating thing to admit than "we photoshopped the optic?"

I dunno. All this crap is why I stick to irons.

Either way it's bad optics

 

[Dench]

I'd be that guy. Honestly.

That's by choice, also.

 

[Dench]

I would have thought it was photoshopped (does the USN even issue VCOGs?), but the apology has me thinking it was an enlisted guy playing a prank and everyone had a good laugh, even the Skipper, until PR decided to post it.

I suspect it's real. People in the military can be pretty clueless. I can remember 20 years ago when I completely forgot how to open a m203. It's not even complicated. Just forgot and had no clue. Same when we changed over to the new molle stuff. They just handed it to me and I hung it all on my gear wrong simply because I had no idea how to properly attach it.

The trick is not to take photos of stupid shit. We made sure we were squared away for photos for a lot of reasons.

I doubt the navy does quality training with vcogs. Looking at the grip on that rifle it's already fairly obvious they don't have a clue in general. Training issue. Don't take photos till you figure it out, dummies.

 

[fencer]

All true but we have to hide the crayons.

Yeah.... But we knew you hid them with the bilge queens lube. We just weren't gonna touch them once they were all sticky.

I'm kidding of course. Some of the nicest couples I ever met were in the Navy.

 

[Picton]

I suspect it's real. People in the military can be pretty clueless. I can remember 20 years ago when I completely forgot how to open a m203. It's not even complicated. Just forgot and had no clue. Same when we changed over to the new molle stuff. They just handed it to me and I hung it all on my gear wrong simply because I had no idea how to properly attach it.

The trick is not to take photos of stupid shit. We made sure we were squared away for photos for a lot of reasons.

I've long been happy I served before smartphones.

Joe was a reckless idiot in the late '90s; I can't imagine what an animal he is with a video camera and access to the internet.

 

[garandman]

It's the Navy Skipper edition. Just shooting into open ocean on a rocking ship, probably wasn't much to look at anyways.////

They seemed to do a lot better with the built-ins.

 

[HorizontalHunter]

They seemed to do a lot better with the built-ins.

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That was something to see and feel in person.

 

[MisterHappy]

The link asserting that it's photoshoped has

As you'd expect, people weren't overly impressed by the fact the Navy posted the photo and nobody in the workflow didn't realize all the incredible mistakes.

Crappy grammar. But, it passed spellcheck.