Commander Cameron Yaste of the USS John McCain, a guided-missile destroyer tasked with defending the San Diego-based plane provider USS Theodore Roosevelt, has been relieved of obligation.
Yaste was faraway from his place on Friday and now faces a possible demotion to Naval Officer.
He has been briefly changed by Capt. Allison Christy, the deputy commodore of Destroyer Squadron 21, which is presently working as a part of the USS Abraham Lincoln Service Strike Group within the Gulf of Oman.
Commander Cameron Yaste’s profession took a nosedive after {a photograph} emerged exhibiting him firing a rifle with the scope mounted backward.
The Navy’s official assertion cited a “lack of confidence in his capability to command” as the explanation for Yaste’s dismissal from his place because the commanding officer of the USS John McCain, presently deployed within the unstable Gulf of Oman, in accordance with AP.
Nevertheless, the assertion notably omitted any particular particulars concerning the explanations behind this determination, main some to take a position that it is likely to be associated to his embarrassing rifle blunder.
The controversy started in April when the Navy’s social media crew posted a picture of Commander Yaste in a firing stance, gripping a rifle with a scope inexplicably mounted backward.
The Navy ultimately deleted the submit, however not earlier than it was broadly shared and ridiculed.
The Navy’s response to the uproar was to delete the unique submit that includes Yaste, stating, “Thanks for mentioning our rifle scope error within the earlier submit. Image has been eliminated till EMI (additional navy instruction) is accomplished,” in accordance with Newsweek.
The Marine Corps wasted no time on the Navy’s mistake of sharing a photograph on its social media channels. The picture, exhibiting a Marine correctly firing a weapon aboard the USS Boxer, was captioned with a pointed “Clear Sight Image,” clearly geared toward highlighting the Navy’s gaffe.