How a photo of a gun with a backward scope became a Navy embarrassment

[Music] the commander of the USS John S McCain Cameron yast and the US Navy are being mocked online this after the Navy posted a photo of yce to its official Instagram account showing him firing a rifle with the scope on backwards and the lens cap on the text under the original photo posting said highlighting the amazing work of our US Navy sailors from engaging in practice gun shoots conducting maintenance testing fuel Purity and participating and see and anchor details the US Navy is always ready to Serve and Protect # Readiness gun users and Advocates said the photo is embarrassing for not only yast but also the military because it shows a lack of firearms competence from the commander of a naval warship and Citadel graduate US Navy just killing it on Instagram one user on X wrote this is Max cringe another user posted it's so bad it had to be done on purpose a third wrote Georgia representative Mike Collins mocked the Navy posting a photo of a pistol with an edited backward Barrel on it writing Navy's newly issued sidearm several other users wrote opinions about how the photo either could have been photoshopped or even a joke the Navy has since taken down the photo and has posted several other ones highlighting their crews in the Red Sea Philippine Sea and Pacific Ocean the Navy responded to the errors of the photo in other social media posts writing thank you for pointing out our rifle scope error in the previous post

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