Sure…if you LIVE in a place for long, you’ll pick up at least a bit of the local accent…but make a speech in Dee-troit with one accent, make the same speech later in Pittsburgh with a different accent…or no accent?
Sure…if you LIVE in a place for long, you’ll pick up at least a bit of the local accent…but make a speech in Dee-troit with one accent, make the same speech later in Pittsburgh with a different accent…or no accent?I grew up on the margins of the south and I went to tech school in Atlanta. Boy, did my southern accent come out. Then, I moved to ChicaagO where people haav to haav something and I picked that one up right away. Then I moved.....
You've never known anyone who's accent shifts based on who they're talking to? I do it all the time unconsciously. SO always laughs because I put on my Texan hat when I'm on the phone making a delivery or whatever.
OK all you 2Aers, what's up here?
Commander of Navy warship relieved of duty months after backward rifle scope photo flap
The commander of a destroyer that’s helping protect the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Middle East has been relieved of duty about four months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with a scope mounted backward.
OK all you 2Aers, what's up here?
Commander of Navy warship relieved of duty months after backward rifle scope photo flap
The commander of a destroyer that’s helping protect the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Middle East has been relieved of duty about four months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with a scope mounted backward.
From my perspective, this looks dumb for a few reasons. This was clearly a photo op which means this wasn't likely to be his gun (he's probably got more important shit to do than play army), so someone else rigged it for him, probably someone who didn't know how to mount the thing on top anyhow (see above reason). So the whole setup is stupid. He's firing off a boat, so there probably isn't anything to look at anyhow, but it likely wouldn't be at appropriate range for the scope if it was, so the scope is stupid too. In addition, given nothing to look at, the poor sod can't even tell it's on backwards because either way it's just going to be a blur of blue or lighter blue, so doubly stupid. It'd be less stupid if he was a SEAL or something and could actually hit shit on the back of a boat anyhow, but he isn't, so stupid.
He's shooting at the ocean, it's not like he will miss regardless of the scope. The Navy has a rep for being very unforgiving of relatively minor things torpedoing careers, but this just doesn't make sense to me.
I think he used a red dot on that thing, you try putting that center forehead on a pumpkin at 130 yards.Apparently they lost confidence in him due to him being very near sighted, possessing extreme tunnel vision!
Are we sure, he's not the trainer/ mentor of that shooter that couldn't hit an orange elephant at 130 yards? With his technique it probably made a 130 yard shot look like it was a 950 yard shot!
I'm also a bit concerned that it took this long to lose confidence in him??