The US Navy is being mocked after publishing a PR photo of a warship commander shooting a rifle with the scope mounted backwards.
When shooting a PR photo, it can be important to pay attention to small details. The US Navy learned that lesson the hard way recently after sharing an Instagram photo of a warship commander shooting a rifle — gun-savvy viewers immediately noticed that the scope had been put on backwards.
“Obviously an embarrassing photo for the commanding officer of a vessel to have posted, but let me play devil’s advocate and offer a defense I haven’t seen mentioned yet,”. “The selector is set to auto. He wasn’t engaging in any kind of training or target practice. Someone handed him a rifle and he flipped it to auto and dumped a mag. I think he would have quickly noticed the scope turned around had he been doing any kind of meaningful training.
After taking down its photo, the US Navy published a replacement post that included a thank-you to eagle-eyed viewers.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!“Thank you for pointing out our rifle scope error in the previous post,” the Navy writes.
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