[dmoy]

There was a (not really propaganda) photo op shot of a US naval captain of a big ass ship shooting a rifle with a backwards scope earlier this year.

I think the reason tends to be that the people involved in prop and photo ops actually have no clue about the particulars and just want it to look cool. It's equivalent to "why is X in movies always so unrealistic?" for various values of X (e.g. hacking, law & courts, guns, etc)

(By people involved I mean the people taking the pictures, editing, publishing, etc. Though in the US captain one, I guess also the guy in the picture too)

[itishappy]

Guy lost his job.

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5100305/navy-commander-...

[dmoy]

Oh ok that's funny, I hadn't heard about that

Hmm not enough details to say whether it was due to the incident or something else.

I will choose to believe it was because of the backwards rifle thing though because that's hilarious