American Military News reported: “The Navy shared a photo of USS John S. McCain Commander Cameron Yaste holding a military rifle with its Trijicon VCOG scope mounted backward as he aimed at a target balloon off the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer.”
The Navy’s post originally stated:
Cmdr. Cameron Yaste, the Commanding Officer of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56), fires at the “killer tomato” during a gun shoot. The ship is in US 7th Fleet conducting routine operations. 7th Fleet is the US Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with Allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific Region.
Users on social media were very quick to point out the blunder. The Navy then subsequently deleted the post afterwards.
Here is a picture that accurately depicts how the scope should be properly mounted:
After the Navy got embarrassed for posting this picture it was reportedly deleted from the Defense Department’s database and uploaded another post on social media. The new post reads, “Thank you for pointing out our rifle scope error in the previous post. Picture has been removed until EMI is completed!”
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This “Kodak Moment” comes at a time when the U.S. is increasing its presence and maneuvering troops in the Middle East to help defend Israel, along with continued saber-rattling with Russia and China in support of Ukraine and Taiwan, among others. So, here’s the “great” American empire threatening the world, provoking and enticing war at every corner, and its commanders cannot even properly mount their scopes to fire their weapons! This was not a grunt, this was a Commander; and God only knows how many people saw this and approved it before it went public. SEE: Chinese Military Officials Calls The US ‘War Addicts’ And ‘Fundamental Source Of International Disorder.’ Russia Concurs
And then the Pentagon and officials are wondering why they are failing to attract fresh recruits to replenish its depleted and undermanned stations…
But I guess this is what happens when gender ethics, inclusivity, and LGTBQIA+ rights are pushed more than the actual training – what a military is supposed to do…
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Psalm 80:6
The world is laughing at us right now, and who could blame them? I’m laughing alongside with them.
I’ve referenced this quote a number of times before it suffices to print it again: former U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who has experience working at the Pentagon and the National Security Agency (NSA), has warned that the United States cannot match the power and production of nations like Russia. Her statements came off of the back of the news that shipping giant Maersk was cutting their contracts with the U.S. military, giving them to a smaller and newer company, creating a logistical bind to transport America’s weaponry.
We have an inability to outproduce the Russian military, we cannot out produce the Chinese military in terms of our weapons production, our technology cannot match theirs, in terms of hypersonics or any other advanced technologies.
I mean, [look at] the story of our F-35 [going missing] in South Carolina not long ago. This is putting a face to the reputation of what modern military technology has done to us. It is not making us stronger, better, faster.
If we can’t logistically go other places, and if we could with these ships, we don’t have the stuff to point on the ships to bring to fight a war, to bring a war to other places like China, like Russia, or anywhere else.
We are not a force to be reconned with, and, it doesn’t matter what you tell the American people, ‘oh rah-rah, we’re great, we can do it’ – in reality, the folks that are our near peer competitors, or anybody in this planet, that have access to the same information that you or I do, and they are drawing these conclusions.
The end of the American empire is near.
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Indeed, the American empire is over, and the Lord is allowing its overthrow to occur, and the power is moving eastward. Judgment is coming swiftly.
Jeremiah 21:4 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. [5] And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath. [6] And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I saw this and I laughed as well.
“Most powerful military in the world” yeah back in the 1940s maybe, but today it’s a comedy act!
A Navy Commander is equivalent to an Army Lieutenant Colonel, and he’s firing his weapon like a moron! DERP DEE DERP!
America is finished!
There are so many problems on so many fronts. Abortion is a prime example. Even professing Christians support that! Abortion is MURDER, people!!! That baby is not your body or choice. That baby is another body. A unique individual. If you don’t hate what God hates, you are mocking God and He will not be mocked.
Yes. Judgment IS coming.
That’s right, Born Again!
Abortion, child abuse, LGBTQIA+, feminism, drunkenness, pornography and sex perversion, false christianity, Roman Catholicism, Hollywood and television, animal cruelty, gluttony, and pride and too many more to count that America is exceedingly guilty of.
This nation is going to get a vicious whipping from God!
The war that’s about to explode both on U.S. soil and overseas abroad, is going to be an epic defeat! The Vietnam war won’t even compare to it!
Vietnam was a drug war to confiscate more land for opium to increase heroin and painkiller production in the Golden triangle.
Who knows, China and/or Russia might just invade America militarily and confiscate our resources and it is just!
I can rest, however, knowing that God knows how to protect His own – where ever they may be.
In the event His well deserved judgment comes prior to snatching us away, it’s truly ‘duck and cover’ time.
Praise God His mercies toward us are never ending.
Lamentations 3:22-23
Amen, Born Again!
I pray the Lord has us all in His hands and anybody who truly comes to repentance and gets born again, I pray God will have them too. And then He will rescue us with the catching up!
We’re in bad straits when the Navy becomes as ill-trained & humanist as the Air Force which is known for its laxity & ‘progressivism’, not that they haven’t worked to that end of ‘transformation’ since the ’60’s in every branch of our military. Feminism & the spirit of Jezebel was huge in this.
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For what it’s worth & in spite of it all: It’s still amazing to me that the young don’t see how the U.S. resisted abortion, LGBTQ, drug demoralization, euthanasia, legalized prostitution imposed on many immigrants for receipt of ‘socialist’ benefits, & many such things which were much earlier openly accepted & promoted in antichrist, idolatrous humanist European society….see Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, France etc.
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That was because of rank & file American citizens’ resistance, & lingering biblical faith & freedom bringing the blessing of God. Not to mention tolerating the Jews & taking seriously praying for the peace of Jerusalem.
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She’s last to fall to these things for a reason, even as many infiltrators & traitors actively worked tirelessly & for many decades within her: parasites seeking to draw her in & take her down for their antichrist one world socialist system of tyrannical ‘management’ & control.
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Our utterly unique Bill of Rights & the wise limitations to power & its centralization were great blessings of God. British political systems have no electoral college to hinder major metropolitan areas & mob rule democracy utterly trampling the rights of rural, more conservative, & less populated areas….& were much more easily taken under the current tyranny.
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We’re facing Balkanization, but God may permit some pockets of resistance & toleration to remain. I pray to that end, not kidding myself that we won’t have to fight in order for that to happen….nor imagining vainly that they’re not ‘table-topping’, plotting & working in Satan’s power to keep that from happening. Ultimately, the Lord’s will be done.
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Whited sepulcher pagan religions & idolatrous humanism can make many fakey-fake, happy face, social media pictures that hardly show the reality of what goes on in those self-righteous, tyrannical elitist hierarchically managed cults & nations exalting themselves as superior & judging those who may prove to be more righteous than they in the end: all the propaganda & appearances doesn’t make it all ‘true’ or ‘superior. Islam & Hinduism are prime examples: daring to judge lying, deception & thievery, elitism, fornications, murders etc when their very systems are riddled with & dependent upon all those things for their existence.
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Freedom & the fight for Christ & his word in a hostile world gets messy, & isn’t all as it may appear. Remember all those ‘heretics’ that Rome slandered, judged & persecuted without mercy for centuries? While she put on her ‘good show’ & fair speeches, hindering & clinging with flatteries & many seductions? Ezekiel 13, Daniel 11, Mark 13, 2 Timothy 3, Revelation 2 KJB.
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1 John 2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
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Let God be true & every man a liar…. Be sober. Be wise. Make sure that the Lord is pleased with your own walk so that you might stand with grace sufficient & with boldness regardless of what is required of us in what is coming. See Daniel’s prayer in chapter nine. See 2 Corinthians 5 KJB. Philippians 1 KJB.