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You think they shoot rifles off that thing? Not even a little bit.
He's not in a role that would ever wield a rifle in a realistic scenario. It's not part of the Navys standard training for sailors or officers either. If you ever have to fire a gun in the Navy, you're already deeply fucked. You tend to shoot things with lot more range off a ship, and most aren't something you can sling over your shoulder.
It's no different than a marine commander standing at the helm backwards or a high ranking army officer having a life jacket on backwards. Its a simple error borne from inexperience, not incompetence.
I mean, I don't disagree with the broad point that it's unusual, but...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Buckley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Borie_(DD-215)
There are also cases where Navy personnel have had to fight on land, like at Wake Island:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wake_Island
Not the US Navy, but one important battle the US fought in the War of 1812 that I can think of off the top of my head had British forces at the Battle of New Orleans. This had a a significant set of unusual combatants on each side; the Americans had a bunch of militia and volunteers from the town who showed up, as well as a pirate and his forces, and the British made use of some Royal Navy sailors:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_British_order_of_battle
Nothing wrong with the history lesson, but to be clear most of that was 80+ years ago, or in some examples 200+ years ago. Y'all talking about uboats and the war of 1812.
Modern naval war is fought at the 10 to 100s of miles range, if not thousands in the case of some terrible, terrible armaments in some of the boomers. Hand gun battles are just not realistic instances in the modern world of naval warfare.
It's a bit akin to why the Navy also barely teaches you how to swim. You get one 30 min class in boot camp, and literally no refresher courses or further training ever. If you have to swim in the modern Navy, you are already dead.
High effort post. Excellent read.
It happens.
Big ships will set up ranges where the backstop is the ocean, little ones throw buoy targets off the side and shoot them.
Like, it's not a daily thing, but if you're out to sea long enough it'll happen