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Is anyone replying in this thread a US military armorer? I'd love to know who gave him the weapon with the sight installed backwards. I was never allowed to touch an installed optic other than to sight it in. I was never in the US Navy, but in all my training I never got a class on anything but an iron sight for the M16, M4, and M9. How would someone who isn't a master at arms and probably qualifies on a weapon once, maybe twice a year going to know that someone else installed the sight on his weapon backwards? You don't even know that it was his issued weapon and not someone else's who also shot with it backwards.
You never touched your optics? What service were you in? I constantly adjusted my ACOG and red dot while i was in the army in iraq.
He would know the instant he looked in the scope and everything was tiny.
US Army Aviation and two deployments with the AF. I was never even issued an optic as we only had a handful per company. Can't touch what Uncle Sugar doesn't allocate. The only time I touched a weapon that wasn't a helicopter was during annual qualifications.
Ah, that makes sense then. Combat arms you pretty much have to know as much about your optics as you do your rifle. Can't wait for an armorer when you're out in the willywacks and your shit is broken.
Yep, and I agree an 11b or equivalent who doesn't know his ass from the front of the sight isn't fit for duty, but this guy is a naval officer and was probably just stoked to look cooler than normal, and someone could have just as easily been playing a joke on him to see if he would notice. We play pranks on people all the time asking for PRC-E7, or grid squares, or blinker fluid.
I doubt it's true it's the reason he was relieved of command, but to even think it was a last straw is crazy because if he was really that bad of a leader they wouldn't need to use something as trivial like just a funny picture to some among the gun owner's who know what they are even looking at.