I did not know until after making this video that the US Marines posted a similar photo with the caption "Clear Sight Picture." The fuckin savages lmao x.com/USMC/status/1778076775710363736 Also for everyone saying the lens caps are still on, I’m not sure they are. It looks like the front lens cover (rear in this configuration) is up under the brim of his hat, and the rear lens you can see the cover folded behind it. Honestly, I could be wrong though.
With the scope being backwards and the grip so close to the magwell, I'm almost convinced the armorer gave the Captain the crappy gun because he knew the Captain wouldn't know the difference.
I was being a bit nicer and maybe they just made this abomination to mess around and get a personal photo, then it accidentally got posted? Either way, they could have easily avoided it blowing up like this.
@@Terabit3I can absolutely see how a social media team would just go through with posting anything on a press camera, after all if they’re running a social media team, it’s a lot more likely they don’t understand what a properly set up weapon looks like opposed to a captain not knowing. It just makes too much sense.
One thing Zach didn't touch on, the lens caps are still on the optics. Of course the captain didn't see his sight was backwards, because he couldn't see a damn thing.
I’m not sure they’re closed though. It looks like the front lens (rear in *this* configuration) you can see into it, and the rear lens you can see the cover folded behind it. Honestly, I could be wrong though. Edit: you can see the front lens cover folded back under the brim of his hat
@@anondimwit so he's not only firing a half-assembled weapon with no aiming solution (since the optic is backwards), but he's also _full autoing it._ I guess at sea the stakes are lower, but like...no bueno.
Here’s how I think it happened: 1. The Captain wants to shoot a gun. 2. The quartermaster who has been dealing with this dumbass Captain for a long ass time with no let up says “bet”. 3. Quartermaster gives asshole Captain fucked up rifle. 4. Quartermaster tells a buddy who takes a picture. 5. Picture ends up with some social media person who’s told by the Captain to post that sick photo of him shooting a rifle. Picture gets posted. 6. Someone with half a brain says “hey that doesn’t look right!” and gets then to take the photo down after they’re being roasted online. 7. Quartermaster pulls off the prank of the century with no one the wiser.
The Navy had such a great option of just saying "What's wrong with this picture?" and farming all the online engagement they could ask for. Nope, gotta try to hide it instead, creating a Streisand Effect and making it more well known.
Now it's the wrong kind of engagement. It could've been "look at the smart captain demonstrating what wrong looks like!" but instead it's "Wow that captain is an incompetent oaf."
And before someone tries to say "bUt cHiken WinG is HoW thEy TauGht iN mIltaRy": Yes, it used to be. Back when standard rifles have traditional stocks and not modern stocks with pistol grips. Like the guns, tactics and manual of arms changed over time and we live in the current day.
He must have looked through that VCOG and thought: "how in the hell my sailors are scoring hits with this thing on", and then probably started talking about how optics are bad and that you should only have iron sights on your guns...
My best excuse is the Navy trains with shotguns and handguns. Maybe the man never held a rifle in his life? I'm fucking dying inside looking at this man too.
Nah, we qualify on the Berretta M9 and the M16 in boot camp and get to shoot two shells out of a Remington 870 to get an idea of what it's like to hold a weapon we never get issued. We're supposed to do a qualification shoot at least once annually on both the M9 and M16. We carry the M9 for all armed guard duties, and a few poor bastards are issued the M16 for long arm watches. No, not the M4 with a collapsible stock and shorter barrel that would make negotiating the tight spaces on a ship easier/humanly possible. The full length M16, complete with NO customization options whatsoever. The only people who get the M4s are the VBSS, or Visit Board Search and Seizure teams, aka the SEAL wannabes and washouts that now serve as our dedicated boarding parties. (Seriously, just about everyone I knew that served on a VBSS team washed out of either BUDS or pre-BUDS. They're exactly the kind of try-hards you think they are.) This goober of a Skipper is just an example of our fine, quality officers, and almost definitely an example of the E-4 Mafia hard at work.
@@isaacschmitt4803 When did you go through? All I had to shoot was M9. Never a shotgun or a rifle. Being in Engineering that's all I ever qualified. Some people train with rifles, but most of the navy doesn't and I'm not surprised a line officer wouldn't if he's not special warfare.
@@isaacschmitt4803 Went through boot camp 2019. Just got out for medical shit. I don't know why you would say anything about rifles or shotguns in bootcamp. Unless you're talking about A-schools or C-schools, like I said I was engineering so I didn't have any weapons training in any of them. I'm guessing a GM probably would.
A fully semi automatic 100 round clipazine military grade death assault carbine rifle won't save you from the military, Joe Biden said so. 😮 So you don't need one. 😅
There is a reason why former navy and Airforce say "I was in the military", vs. Army and marines will name their branch: even civilian know what is up, and those navy guys are hoping they will be confused as someone who cleared rooms in iraq instead of a professional fashion show.
I feel like everyone in that picture was having a goof, making the most fucked rifle they could, and somewhere along the line the picture got mixed in with everything else. Then the media office asked for pictures, and Ens. Whatever went, "yeah, CO firing a rifle, neat" and everyone rubber stamped it without anyone considering it any more than that. And we now have a top-tier meme about why naval infantry is usually not a good idea.
You see Zach, as you know, the greater the sighting radius the easier it is to aim accurately. By mounting the optic backwards the front sight is farther away, and therefore the sighting radius is larger. That's totally how it works because reasons! Now to model this and add it to every video game ever, despite everyone familiar with guns pointing out how wrong it is.
Yeah, Naval Media should have checked this before post. Honestly, it looks like something an armorer would have given the skipper to shoot as a practical joke, an April Fool's morale post, or (in my personal opinion) the C.O. was trying to prove that he could be a badass and fire the most effed up config accurately that would be issued at a moments notice. Hell, it could be a training photo, showing a weapon that was needed in the heat of a combat situation that was able to defend the ship, even though it wasn't fully rendered to spec. Regardless, glad they took it down. (Also, during underway deployments, facial regulations become lax under C.O.'s discretion for ship morale, i.e. 5 o'clocks and Nasty Stache competitions).
@@Zach_Hazard Oh when fleet is away and we're out in the middle of nowhere in the ocean we grew full on beards. Made fire fighting interesting, had to keep a tin of grease available to keep a seal on the SCBAs, just don't use the termalene....that shit will stain your face barney purple for months.
Eh, on the subject of shaves, that depends on the discretion of the CO. Free noshave chits weren't a thing for our deployment. But since the CO is who sets the policy and signs off the no shave chits...
someone who thought it was funny i'm sure. my headcannon is everybody, including the one holding the thing, was in on this and only did it BECAUSE of how cursed it is.
Chicken wing, terrible foregrip placement, full extension of the stock past the final position catch, inability to properly seat the weapon on the shoulder. And the pièce de résistance, a backwards scope with the cap still on and bent on the rail so as to damage the scope beyond repair. *chefs kiss*
Buddy showed me this at work yesterday, told me to find the problem. First thing I noticed was the rails, and I similarly thought the barrel was horribly bent. Now I know it's a problem with a handguard I've never seen before (somehow). I use the old CAR-style handguard, and I typically only saw the earlier quad rail handguard that came in the same loose two pieces, so I was unaware of that weirdness, but at least I noticed the bend. Then, the foregrip. As someone who fucking hates the far forward C-clamp bullshit a lot of people like, I can understand weird grip placement. I used to practice gripping the magwell, so that's not far off. Also, I used to see a lot of pictures with devices like lights and lasers on the bottom rail, with the foregrip behind them, so people did rock that for a time. Not a big deal. The stock... is being used. I guess he's got a REALLY good cheek weld on that thing, but I rarely see people hanging that stock that high on their shoulder. Whatever floats your boat, Captain. I pointed out the fixed front sight being used with a scope for some reason, and he's telling me I'm getting close to the problem. So I had a moment of genuine, "what, it's just an ordinary OH MY GOODNESS" when I saw the scope itself was backwards. I get that it's a promo shot, and you're shooting at nothing off the side of a ship, but... come on...
How badly did the captain piss off the armorer to get handed that rifle for the photo shoot? Or worse yet, how bad is the captain at maintaining his own rifle that he has a rifle that awful? Is that the rifle they use to Haze new recruits by seeing how long it takes them to spot everything that's wrong?
Update: This commander was relieved of his post "due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command the guided-missile destroyer” as of Sep 4th. This photo tarnished his reputation so bad they fired him 😭
Chicken-winging with a more traditional stock CAN be beneficial Especially with Battle Rifles But Like What's the chances this man was trained with an M14?
there's also the fact that the dude was wearing sunglasses while looking through the scope, with that stock looking like it could slip at any recoil, then his eye could potentially be damaged.
3:20 It's likely that there were people who know. But they chose not to speak up as it's seemingly frowned upon in the Navy. Same as with the incidents of US navy ships trying to ram/colliding with civilian cargo ships and failing miserably.
3:00 oh boy to I have a tech support horror story for you. Guy was running a fab shop for dental retainers, the rough retainers were 3d printed out of dental grade resin on a $100,000 printer. If this man had ANY trouble at all he'd call the printer company and demand they fix it. Including but not limited to: Filling up his hard drive because he didn't know those had limited space, fixing his monitor because it was showing a 640p square in the center of a 1080p screen, reconnecting his internet, fixing his phone, one time he even tried to get the tech to vacuum the office. He was actually looking for a way to sue the printer company because his business was understandably failing and they were the only ones dumb enough to sign a maintenance contract he could sue them for "breaching" by touching stuff other than the printer.
Some clarification, some captains allow no shaving while underway it’s rare but it happens. In the case for the optics, for me personally on my boat we never used nor to my knowledge even had any sort of optics. So I will say a GMSN had no idea how to properly mount it as we rarely do. Some of our m4s had fore grips but the vast majority didn’t. The rail being improperly attached I would say being “gundecked” (half assing) maintenance. And finally something I should point out is that the navy never trains full auto shooting ever. We only shoot semiauto. One gunshoot we brought to much ammo and our GMC and MAC said I need the ammo gone so some were selected to fire in full auto. I unfortunately wasn’t selected.
Holy crap i remembered your voice from the gun rant videos 😂 i remember watching those a few years ago and never looked any deeper. Glad to see you still doing it 😁
Looking at the trajectory of those casings, that rifle also looks to be short stroking to hell and back, which means the gas block is likely overcorrected.
1. The Navy get confused by anything with projectiles under 5''. 2. Don't worry. It's a captured Mexican drug runner AR that they were firing off for the memes.
"Welcome to the US Navy where we don't use guns. We use cannons." that is the only way i could possibly explain why or how someone within the Navy itself would allow this.
I also love how someone felt the need to put his hand on the guy’s back because despite him firing a 5.56 platform, it’s obvious he knows nothing and very well might fall over
I have only ever fired a rifle as a kid with it being an old Winchester my grandfather used for hunting, and thus I didn’t even know how to take it off. Even with that little knowledge, I still knew that this guy was looking down the wrong end
To be charitable, if he’s looking through the optic at the vast, featureless ocean he may not have noticed that said vast and featureless ocean was smaller than usual.
Actually to be fair. The stock being that high up ISN'T that much of a problem depending on HOW you are shooting the rifle. 5.56 is so lightweight, it can be forgiven with how little the stock actually touches you. Quickly bringing it up to engage target for CQB, that's not a problem. The problem is EVERYTHING ELSE
The weird thing about where he has the stock of the rifle is that’s what gets taught to us by the military contractors who train us to shoot the M4’s and the new sig rifles, they literally tell us to have only half or a quarter of the stock on our shoulder
I did not know until after making this video that the US Marines posted a similar photo with the caption "Clear Sight Picture."
The fuckin savages lmao
x.com/USMC/status/1778076775710363736
Also for everyone saying the lens caps are still on, I’m not sure they are. It looks like the front lens cover (rear in this configuration) is up under the brim of his hat, and the rear lens you can see the cover folded behind it.
Honestly, I could be wrong though.
I'm wondering who has their bipod down in the pic at the end of the line
Based marines.
I love the marines also please make this a sires
Zach, in the Navy pic, the scope cover is on. He's shooting at something he can't see.
unironically the Marines would prolly know how a VCOG works since it's on their IARs and DMRs now lol
The marines posting the same picture but with everything attached correctly was hilarious
Of course, the poor marine who would get caught with his equipment like THAT would get nothing but normal food for the rest of his service.
Thank you so much for pointing this out to me
@@TheXell crayon rations cancelled
picture of that please?
@@Cynic_6489fun fact crayons are like froot loops they all taste the same
With the scope being backwards and the grip so close to the magwell, I'm almost convinced the armorer gave the Captain the crappy gun because he knew the Captain wouldn't know the difference.
I was being a bit nicer and maybe they just made this abomination to mess around and get a personal photo, then it accidentally got posted? Either way, they could have easily avoided it blowing up like this.
Big "Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist" energy.
"We gave him a wrongly assembled rifle, as a joke."
@@Stealth86651That... Actually makes a lot of sense
The scope being backwards is almost as bad as his nose
@@Terabit3I can absolutely see how a social media team would just go through with posting anything on a press camera, after all if they’re running a social media team, it’s a lot more likely they don’t understand what a properly set up weapon looks like opposed to a captain not knowing.
It just makes too much sense.
One thing Zach didn't touch on, the lens caps are still on the optics. Of course the captain didn't see his sight was backwards, because he couldn't see a damn thing.
I’m not sure they’re closed though. It looks like the front lens (rear in *this* configuration) you can see into it, and the rear lens you can see the cover folded behind it.
Honestly, I could be wrong though.
Edit: you can see the front lens cover folded back under the brim of his hat
Also also, maybe they are those see trough lens caps with a plastic window?
@@Zach_Hazard
did you notice it's on full auto?
@@capt.raptor4650 what about it
@@anondimwit
so he's not only firing a half-assembled weapon with no aiming solution (since the optic is backwards), but he's also _full autoing it._
I guess at sea the stakes are lower, but like...no bueno.
Here’s how I think it happened:
1. The Captain wants to shoot a gun.
2. The quartermaster who has been dealing with this dumbass Captain for a long ass time with no let up says “bet”.
3. Quartermaster gives asshole Captain fucked up rifle.
4. Quartermaster tells a buddy who takes a picture.
5. Picture ends up with some social media person who’s told by the Captain to post that sick photo of him shooting a rifle. Picture gets posted.
6. Someone with half a brain says “hey that doesn’t look right!” and gets then to take the photo down after they’re being roasted online.
7. Quartermaster pulls off the prank of the century with no one the wiser.
Yeah, but what did they bet?
It would be a gunners mate not the QM. Navy quarter master does maps and shit, very different from army qm
@@altarancho eh, you got the gist of it at least 😂
The Navy had such a great option of just saying "What's wrong with this picture?" and farming all the online engagement they could ask for. Nope, gotta try to hide it instead, creating a Streisand Effect and making it more well known.
The Streisand Effect is famous for creating engagement. What are you trying to say here?
@@Loquacious_JacksonThey didn't plan it, and it makes them look like fools.
Now it's the wrong kind of engagement. It could've been "look at the smart captain demonstrating what wrong looks like!" but instead it's "Wow that captain is an incompetent oaf."
@amentco8445 engagement doesn't have a positive or negative connotation, it's still engagement
@@amentco8445 so them just asking the whole world "what's wrong with it?" WOULDN'T make them look like fools?
And before someone tries to say "bUt cHiken WinG is HoW thEy TauGht iN mIltaRy": Yes, it used to be.
Back when standard rifles have traditional stocks and not modern stocks with pistol grips. Like the guns, tactics and manual of arms changed over time and we live in the current day.
If you’re doing national match shooting, then chicken wing is pretty great. If you’re shooting an m4, not so much.
So *THATS* why I aim better with my Traditonal-Shaped Rifles!
Huh, one really does learn somthing new every day!
@@Zach_Hazard ...are we talking "well that's not going well" not so much or "MY SHOUDLER-" not so much lol?
Yeah wasn't it the existence of the M16 and widespread usage of body armor that lent to soldiers not chicken winging?
@@wheezer6695indeed.
He must have looked through that VCOG and thought: "how in the hell my sailors are scoring hits with this thing on", and then probably started talking about how optics are bad and that you should only have iron sights on your guns...
He probably thought "dang my nose is getting in the way"!
@@raam1666bro 😂
Oh my god I know what happened to the rail. BRO, THEY DISASSEMBLED THE FUCKER AND DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO PUT IT ON CORRECTLY LMFAO
Really.
You might know whay happened to the rail, but no one knows what happened to his nose!
It requires.... education
The navy is really dropping some bangers like this and that image of the sailor with the words “I eat ass” on his welding gloves from a week ago
Excuse me WHAT?
link it
Look it up
Classic sailor humor.
@@yourunclejoe9500just Google “Navy sailor welding gloves I eat”
My best excuse is the Navy trains with shotguns and handguns. Maybe the man never held a rifle in his life? I'm fucking dying inside looking at this man too.
Nah, we qualify on the Berretta M9 and the M16 in boot camp and get to shoot two shells out of a Remington 870 to get an idea of what it's like to hold a weapon we never get issued. We're supposed to do a qualification shoot at least once annually on both the M9 and M16.
We carry the M9 for all armed guard duties, and a few poor bastards are issued the M16 for long arm watches. No, not the M4 with a collapsible stock and shorter barrel that would make negotiating the tight spaces on a ship easier/humanly possible. The full length M16, complete with NO customization options whatsoever. The only people who get the M4s are the VBSS, or Visit Board Search and Seizure teams, aka the SEAL wannabes and washouts that now serve as our dedicated boarding parties.
(Seriously, just about everyone I knew that served on a VBSS team washed out of either BUDS or pre-BUDS. They're exactly the kind of try-hards you think they are.)
This goober of a Skipper is just an example of our fine, quality officers, and almost definitely an example of the E-4 Mafia hard at work.
@@isaacschmitt4803 When did you go through? All I had to shoot was M9. Never a shotgun or a rifle. Being in Engineering that's all I ever qualified. Some people train with rifles, but most of the navy doesn't and I'm not surprised a line officer wouldn't if he's not special warfare.
@@sleepy_jean I went through boot in '12, got out in '16.
When we're you in?
@@isaacschmitt4803 Went through boot camp 2019. Just got out for medical shit. I don't know why you would say anything about rifles or shotguns in bootcamp. Unless you're talking about A-schools or C-schools, like I said I was engineering so I didn't have any weapons training in any of them. I'm guessing a GM probably would.
Aint no one getting a shotgun for almost anything. Pretty much exclusively M4 and pistols these days
" Eto- bleh. " - US Navy
*explodes*
Seriously, I have not seen a more LARP looking weapon than whatever they did to this thing.
That's an insult to LARPers, they actually care about it being properly setup.
Not enough PEQ 15s or random attachments
Larp looking nose
Zach casually showing off his M16a4 clone
Oh, this old thing? Nahhhh it's nothing special.
@@Zach_Hazard thats more special than i am. Gimme. Ship it to australia I NEED IT im gonna snort it
@@stickmandrawing1140 sorry champ, you're gonna have to snort speed like a real Australian
@@Zach_Hazard Oh really? *Then you won't mind handing it over so I can have one.*
@@Zach_Hazard its always sum special
"Only the military are skilled to have firearms!"
Military:
A fully semi automatic 100 round clipazine military grade death assault carbine rifle won't save you from the military, Joe Biden said so. 😮 So you don't need one. 😅
Nose:
Weird, my original comment got deleted by "someone" yet I'm still getting notifications for this.
“Military” (squids lmao)
There is a reason why former navy and Airforce say "I was in the military", vs. Army and marines will name their branch: even civilian know what is up, and those navy guys are hoping they will be confused as someone who cleared rooms in iraq instead of a professional fashion show.
Sorry you had to damage your property to show us what not to do
Just normal navy behavior just gaslighting higher ups to do curse meme reviews deadass
Thank you so much! It was worth it for this lol
ABSOLUTE CHAD
"Don't do what Donny Don't does" - The Simpsons. A long time ago.
to pay for damages?
3:00 I work in IT
... yeah there be people unironically like that. 720x480 on a 2k monitor without a single shit given
Never underestimate the stupidity of the (below)average person
I think this is just a case of no one wanting to say to the captain he was wrong, or just waiting for the next guy to say that something is wrong
Or they hated his guts and gladly let him make a fool of himself.
It do be like that sometimes
bystander effect, yeah
I feel like everyone in that picture was having a goof, making the most fucked rifle they could, and somewhere along the line the picture got mixed in with everything else. Then the media office asked for pictures, and Ens. Whatever went, "yeah, CO firing a rifle, neat" and everyone rubber stamped it without anyone considering it any more than that. And we now have a top-tier meme about why naval infantry is usually not a good idea.
Thankfully, our local military man will explain everything...
Me when saw this pic blowing up.
"It cant be that bad."
-sees pic.-
"OH MY GOD!"
"Do you think you can hit that seagull from here?"
"Please, I could hit that with my scope on backwards!"
You see Zach, as you know, the greater the sighting radius the easier it is to aim accurately. By mounting the optic backwards the front sight is farther away, and therefore the sighting radius is larger.
That's totally how it works because reasons!
Now to model this and add it to every video game ever, despite everyone familiar with guns pointing out how wrong it is.
Yeah, Naval Media should have checked this before post. Honestly, it looks like something an armorer would have given the skipper to shoot as a practical joke, an April Fool's morale post, or (in my personal opinion) the C.O. was trying to prove that he could be a badass and fire the most effed up config accurately that would be issued at a moments notice. Hell, it could be a training photo, showing a weapon that was needed in the heat of a combat situation that was able to defend the ship, even though it wasn't fully rendered to spec. Regardless, glad they took it down. (Also, during underway deployments, facial regulations become lax under C.O.'s discretion for ship morale, i.e. 5 o'clocks and Nasty Stache competitions).
Ahhhh I did not know that about facial hair regs!
@@Zach_Hazard Oh when fleet is away and we're out in the middle of nowhere in the ocean we grew full on beards. Made fire fighting interesting, had to keep a tin of grease available to keep a seal on the SCBAs, just don't use the termalene....that shit will stain your face barney purple for months.
Eh, on the subject of shaves, that depends on the discretion of the CO. Free noshave chits weren't a thing for our deployment. But since the CO is who sets the policy and signs off the no shave chits...
@@Corvious fuck man that’s funny as hell
Yuo see billy. When flip scope backwards you are never being snuck upon for field of is of become 100 meter wide
All after the Navy or Coast Guard posted a picture of a member with gloves that say I Eat Ass.
The moment i saw that photo was released im like wtf!?!?! Who okayed that?
someone must have hated the captain a lot
someone who thought it was funny i'm sure. my headcannon is everybody, including the one holding the thing, was in on this and only did it BECAUSE of how cursed it is.
Operation Optic Sternward was a great success
Chicken wing, terrible foregrip placement, full extension of the stock past the final position catch, inability to properly seat the weapon on the shoulder. And the pièce de résistance, a backwards scope with the cap still on and bent on the rail so as to damage the scope beyond repair. *chefs kiss*
My theory: The armorer, whoever they were, put the gun together like that on purpose to make the CO look like a moron.
And now he's been relieved of duty
Buddy showed me this at work yesterday, told me to find the problem.
First thing I noticed was the rails, and I similarly thought the barrel was horribly bent. Now I know it's a problem with a handguard I've never seen before (somehow). I use the old CAR-style handguard, and I typically only saw the earlier quad rail handguard that came in the same loose two pieces, so I was unaware of that weirdness, but at least I noticed the bend.
Then, the foregrip. As someone who fucking hates the far forward C-clamp bullshit a lot of people like, I can understand weird grip placement. I used to practice gripping the magwell, so that's not far off. Also, I used to see a lot of pictures with devices like lights and lasers on the bottom rail, with the foregrip behind them, so people did rock that for a time. Not a big deal.
The stock... is being used. I guess he's got a REALLY good cheek weld on that thing, but I rarely see people hanging that stock that high on their shoulder. Whatever floats your boat, Captain.
I pointed out the fixed front sight being used with a scope for some reason, and he's telling me I'm getting close to the problem. So I had a moment of genuine, "what, it's just an ordinary OH MY GOODNESS" when I saw the scope itself was backwards. I get that it's a promo shot, and you're shooting at nothing off the side of a ship, but... come on...
“The stock… is being used” lmfao
How badly did the captain piss off the armorer to get handed that rifle for the photo shoot?
Or worse yet, how bad is the captain at maintaining his own rifle that he has a rifle that awful?
Is that the rifle they use to Haze new recruits by seeing how long it takes them to spot everything that's wrong?
Don't forget that it's on burst in the photo, which means probably 3 rounds instead of 2!
Instructions unclear: Accidentally mounted the optic to the bottom of the handguard right behind the grip.
1:14, I need that m4 in my life.
Perfection
Eft 0 recoil setups
I was waiting for this. And I must say, you were much more 'subdued' than I expected. Especially when it came to the optic. Well done!
Oh wait this isnt photoshop this is real
I honestly thought the handguard was photoshopped at least until I saw this video.
Now I wish it was actually Photoshopped...
"Im not calling it X."
THANK YOU! I hate Twitter's new stupid name!
Your m4 is now a tax write off!
chicken winging isn't a bad behaviour, but the stock being so high and the grip being so far back is funny asf
Who’s here today to tell Zach that this dude got “reassigned” and lost his command because of a “loss of confidence” 4 months after this photo LMAO
Oh no
crashes through wall
*OH YEAHHHHHHH*
@@Zach_Hazard
Was waiting for videos on this. Am not disappointed
Update: This commander was relieved of his post "due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command the guided-missile destroyer” as of Sep 4th.
This photo tarnished his reputation so bad they fired him 😭
Chicken-winging with a more traditional stock CAN be beneficial
Especially with Battle Rifles
But
Like
What's the chances this man was trained with an M14?
I come forth bearing an update:
The CO in this marvelous picture has since been "relieved of duty" for said photo.
worlds saddest black lego brick
"you see THIS is we need Zach Hazard !"
Current navy loser here: don't worry, he's holding up a higher standard than the rest of us. We suck!
aww that makes me kinda sad lol
there's also the fact that the dude was wearing sunglasses while looking through the scope, with that stock looking like it could slip at any recoil, then his eye could potentially be damaged.
Fun Fact! That captain was relieved of command after this photo went public.
3:20 It's likely that there were people who know. But they chose not to speak up as it's seemingly frowned upon in the Navy. Same as with the incidents of US navy ships trying to ram/colliding with civilian cargo ships and failing miserably.
When you play video games at your friend's house, and he gives you the spare controller.
There's probably some poor ensign laying on the deck throwing brass into frame...
It's the navy and an AR type rifle. It's nothing of value except skippy's pride
01:06 if officers can get away with SA they can legit do anything they want
for me it was the brass flinging at the camera lol
skipper doesn’t need an optic, he’s getting guidance from fire control
the captain was pranked for sure
3:00 oh boy to I have a tech support horror story for you. Guy was running a fab shop for dental retainers, the rough retainers were 3d printed out of dental grade resin on a $100,000 printer. If this man had ANY trouble at all he'd call the printer company and demand they fix it. Including but not limited to: Filling up his hard drive because he didn't know those had limited space, fixing his monitor because it was showing a 640p square in the center of a 1080p screen, reconnecting his internet, fixing his phone, one time he even tried to get the tech to vacuum the office. He was actually looking for a way to sue the printer company because his business was understandably failing and they were the only ones dumb enough to sign a maintenance contract he could sue them for "breaching" by touching stuff other than the printer.
Some clarification, some captains allow no shaving while underway it’s rare but it happens. In the case for the optics, for me personally on my boat we never used nor to my knowledge even had any sort of optics. So I will say a GMSN had no idea how to properly mount it as we rarely do. Some of our m4s had fore grips but the vast majority didn’t. The rail being improperly attached I would say being “gundecked” (half assing) maintenance. And finally something I should point out is that the navy never trains full auto shooting ever. We only shoot semiauto. One gunshoot we brought to much ammo and our GMC and MAC said I need the ammo gone so some were selected to fire in full auto. I unfortunately wasn’t selected.
instructions unclear, vertical grip jammed in the magwell
Holy crap i remembered your voice from the gun rant videos 😂 i remember watching those a few years ago and never looked any deeper.
Glad to see you still doing it 😁
That’s the news reporter setup. The “The recoil hurt my gun. It gave me ptsd waaaaaaaaaaaaah!” setup
I appreciate you explaining why this is absolutely horrible. Very educational and it’s good to hold the military to a high standard
Multiple layers of failure. From the captain to the Navy media team. It slipped through every crack.
Looking at the trajectory of those casings, that rifle also looks to be short stroking to hell and back, which means the gas block is likely overcorrected.
I love when you do stuff like this Zach. Zoggin awesome!
1. The Navy get confused by anything with projectiles under 5''.
2. Don't worry. It's a captured Mexican drug runner AR that they were firing off for the memes.
It's the Navy's public image people; all the people with prior firearms experienced got RIFed and replaced with DEI appointments.
I also love that the V-Cog is not the only thing put on backwards. So is the Castle Nut.
"Social media platform formerly known as Twitter"
It is the navy, they're not really known for thinking straight.
"Welcome to the US Navy where we don't use guns. We use cannons." that is the only way i could possibly explain why or how someone within the Navy itself would allow this.
My god, I know nothing about guns yet that picture triggered something in my brain.
It's like one of those pictures where you can't make anything out.
0:18 What? Its just an ordinary Krabby Pa-OH MY GOODNESS.
SQUIDWARD!!!
Thanks Gun Dad!!
I also love how someone felt the need to put his hand on the guy’s back because despite him firing a 5.56 platform, it’s obvious he knows nothing and very well might fall over
They probably thought it was some type of “New Optic”.
I knew an armorer would not want to have eyes today after that post 😅
Thank you Zach’s gun for sacrificing your Zero to show what NOT to do o7
The handguard realized what kind of fuckery that was afoot and tried its best not to be a part of it.
Zach you sound a lot happier in your latest videos that some of the old ones, I hope i am right and that life has been treating you well.
Thanks! It’s nice to be at home with my wife, making & editing videos!
@@Zach_Hazard I just assumed you were getting happier and happier the further you got from having played The Frontier
@@a.gravemistake3061 could also be further and further from his military service :P
I have only ever fired a rifle as a kid with it being an old Winchester my grandfather used for hunting, and thus I didn’t even know how to take it off. Even with that little knowledge, I still knew that this guy was looking down the wrong end
i am no gun expert nor am i american, but i just have to say: "WHAT IN THE GOD DAMN IS THIS IMAGE?!"
I feel like everyone who knew what was wrong got told to shut up and they did
To be charitable, if he’s looking through the optic at the vast, featureless ocean he may not have noticed that said vast and featureless ocean was smaller than usual.
I'm still pissed I haven't seen Zach and Mike make cameos in the Fallout series on Amazon.
Maybe season two?
The guys tapping on the back going no please stop wtf are you doing
I am not a gun girl, or a military girl, but something about the passion Zach has for this stuff is amazing.
At least they didn’t mess up as bad as the Montana National Guard photo
Wrong troops lmao
[YTP] Hach Zazard has a gun rant themed stroke
This reminds me of the picture of the navy welder they took down because his gloves had "Eat Ass" written across the knuckles.
I Love how Zach Get’s way Deeper into It than most Did
Greatwork
Thank You Good Man
definite average recruit trolling the superiors situation here
i thought that was the new fancy optic where the enemy sees you clearer
Never held a firearm in my life and even I was like "is that scope backwards?"
At least he's got that blue pilot G2 holstered, it's the only stick he's gonna need to wield any time soon lmao
Actually to be fair. The stock being that high up ISN'T that much of a problem depending on HOW you are shooting the rifle. 5.56 is so lightweight, it can be forgiven with how little the stock actually touches you. Quickly bringing it up to engage target for CQB, that's not a problem. The problem is EVERYTHING ELSE
The weird thing about where he has the stock of the rifle is that’s what gets taught to us by the military contractors who train us to shoot the M4’s and the new sig rifles, they literally tell us to have only half or a quarter of the stock on our shoulder