This undated picture, supplied by Stars and Stripes, exhibits Cameron Yaste, commanding officer of the destroyer USS John McCain, firing a rifle with a backwards scope.
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SAN DIEGO — The commander of a Navy destroyer that’s serving to defend the San Diego-based plane provider USS Theodore Roosevelt within the Center East has been relieved of responsibility about 4 months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with a scope mounted backward.
The picture introduced the Navy appreciable ridicule on social media. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Cameron Yaste, commanding officer of the destroyer USS John McCain, was eliminated on Friday.
The Navy mentioned Yaste was relieved of responsibility “attributable to a lack of confidence in his potential to command the guided-missile destroyer” that is at present deployed within the Gulf of Oman. The assertion did not elaborate about why Yaste was changed.
In April, a photograph posted on the Navy’s social media confirmed Yaste in a firing stance gripping the rifle with a backward scope.
The navy information outlet Stars and Stripes reported that the Marine Corps took a dig on the Navy, sharing a photograph on its social media of a Marine firing a weapon aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer. The caption learn: “Clear Sight Image.”
The put up that includes Yaste was in the end deleted. “Thanks for mentioning our rifle scope error within the earlier put up,” the Navy later wrote on social media. “Image has been eliminated till EMI (additional navy instruction) is accomplished.”
Yaste has been quickly changed by Capt. Allison Christy, deputy commodore of Destroyer Squadron 21, which is a part of the USS Abraham Lincoln Provider Strike Group that is additionally within the Gulf of Oman.
The Pentagon despatched the carriers to the Center East to be in place ought to Israel need assistance repelling an assault by Iran or different nations, if such a factor occurs, navy officers mentioned.
The Roosevelt is the flagship of a strike group that has lately included three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, $2 billion vessels which might be designed to protect carriers from assaults by air, sea and land.