Commander Cameron Yaste of the USS John McCain, a guided-missile destroyer tasked with protecting the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, has been relieved of duty.
Yaste was removed from his position on Friday and faces a demotion to Naval Officer, according to Newsweek.
He has been temporarily replaced by Capt. Allison Christy, the deputy commodore of Destroyer Squadron 21, which is currently operating as part of the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group in the Gulf of Oman.
Christy was one of the speakers on the panel “LGBT Experiences in the Forward Deployed Navy: 10 Years After Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” back in 2021.
The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, repealed under the Obama administration in 2011, allowed LGBTQ+ service members to serve openly in the military without fear of losing their jobs.
Commander Cameron Yaste’s career took a nosedive after a photograph emerged showing him firing a rifle with the scope mounted backward.
The Navy’s official statement cited a “loss of confidence in his ability to command” as the reason for Yaste’s dismissal from his position as the commanding officer of the USS John McCain, currently deployed in the volatile Gulf of Oman, according to AP.
However, the statement notably omitted any specific details regarding the reasons behind this decision, leading some to speculate that it might be related to his embarrassing rifle blunder.
The controversy began in April when the Navy’s social media team posted an image of Commander Yaste in a firing stance, gripping a rifle with a scope inexplicably mounted backward.
The Navy eventually deleted the post, but not before it was widely shared and ridiculed.
The Navy’s response to the uproar was to delete the original post featuring Yaste, stating, “Thank you for pointing out our rifle scope error in the previous post. Picture has been removed until EMI (extra military instruction) is completed,” according to Newsweek.
The Marine Corps wasted no time on the Navy’s mistake of sharing a photo on its social media channels. The image, showing a Marine properly firing a weapon aboard the USS Boxer, was captioned with a pointed “Clear Sight Picture,” clearly aimed at highlighting the Navy’s gaffe.
yeh…sure dafuq mounted reverse…dude saw no sighting picture…fired anyway…dei knows no bounds…
Yup get all the real good and trust worthy out and replace them with evil Garbage
Somebody got axed, likely for a joke. This is a made up story, a hoax, whatever, but this guy was NOT aiming the rifle this way intending to hit anything that he could see through the scope. Somebody is playing with somebody.
I think he, being a commander is long out of practice and the Armorer set him up!
IF Only Alec Baldwin would have been held responsible for the same situation, eh? Strange how they both can use the same excuse – but the one that committed murder got off (no doubt after he pledged $$$ to the Democrat Party & specific people) and this Commander should have SEEN the flaw. I think whomever was a part of that photo, from the entire Chain of Command, should be canned. We NEED to desperately show that Actions Have Consequences Again, but alas only 5% are held accountable nowadays.
I think it’s a set up, something just not right about this!!!! maybe just was to be a joke!!!
The dude is probably a trump supporter and they set him up and handed him a rifle with it backwards for a pic and he didnt pay attention,so they could demote him and put a openly gay women in his place.Wouldnt surprise me one bit that these nut cases would do that to him,when they make up fake laws to jail trump on.A democrat can never win without cheating or screwing someone over or in harris case screwing anyone in power as the hoe she is.You have to be completely blind not to see the evil and lawless democrats who openly want the constitution gone and make up laws as they go.the democrats of old do not exist anymore just radical immoral sickos run the asylum for them.Any democrat with morals or common sense have moved to maga.
Now you have a female dei supporter relieving his ass!
Would it make any difference if the SS HAD 100 Agents posing as security for Trump, If they are all looking the other way. I feel positive they were not trying to protect him, Otherwise they would have shot that kid before he had a chance to fire 1 shot let alone 8.
S.S Sniper did not Kill him, like Wray said happen….it was the Local Police Sniper ,that got Him….
Well there’s always an opening with the secret service.