Can you guess why he was relieved of command, and do you think it was fair?
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I had to do an internet search…
In my opinion, that’s a pretty stupid reason to relieve someone of their command.
I guess that’s why “military intelligence” is sometimes considered an oxymoron. 
It also seems to me to be a stupid reason since I assume it was just a PR shot (pun intended 
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I dislike clickbait, so I’ll put for others that the reason is the scope is backwards and the higher-ups “deemed him unfit to command”.
The cynic in my thinks this was just an excuse to get rid of him, whatever the underlying reasons really are.
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I’m more curious about the how scope got on the gun like that. Did a photographer set it up as a prop maybe? No way anyone would ever mount a scope like that and leave it.
This is like that one time H&K released a promotional photo where they had bullets loaded into a magazine backwards.
BTW, just realized he doesn’t really have the stock seated properly either. Kinda looks like he’s never held a gun before…
Maybe he was shooting a Whale and he needed a smaller field of view. JK
Likely. “Pop off a burst during the interview - here.”
Handed those out for a couple hours the first day of SHOT before they spotted the mistake. Collector’s items now. Suspect that photographer’s career suffered after that F-up.
Not unusual to place the lower butt against one’s shoulder with an inline stock like the AR platform which requires a colinear buffer tube - doesn’t necessitate cocking one’s head to the side for cheek weld (kinda irrelevant in this case, natch).
Chicken wing stance not so modern - esp with CQB being a focus of much training - but it’s intuitive for many and based on historical photos used to be standard training