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Navy relieves ship commander who was photographed firing M-4 with scope mounted backwards

Story here. How his people even mounted the scope backwards, let alone giving it to their commander, let alone him shooting it and not noticing, is beyond me.

The Navy has come a long ways since the days of Admiral Willis Lee, who won five gold medals for shooting events in the 1920 Olympics, and in 1942 blew a Japanese battleship to bits using radar-aided gunnery. I can't find the source just now, but he went ashore at Vera Cruz in 1914 and swapped fire with some opponents. In later years he was up for promotion but some questioned his eyesight (which indeed had limits), and another officer vouched for him, that he'd seen him crumple an opponent at 800 yards with iron sights, so they didn't need to worry about his vision.