LOL, that's NOT PPE, it isn't on him to Protect him....
He's literally Blindfolded, and made so he cannot hear what's being said, the water is a courtesy, we, American Military, are not Barbarians nor are we Savages, so he might be holding a Sausage, or maybe a stick of Dynamite, or just a Flare, some things are just ""funny for the Picture""....
EDIT::
Upon closer Inspection, his LEFT HAND is totally Empty, the Redish Orange thing is hanging off his neck on a lanyard, likely some sort of Location Device, in case the Venezuelan Navy sinks the Iwo Jima, all he has to do is break the Glass tube inside the GLOW STICK....
I can't believe I typed those words with a Straight face....
LOL, that's NOT PPE, it isn't on him to Protect him....
He's literally Blindfolded, and made so he cannot hear what's being said, the water is a courtesy, we, American Military, are not Barbarians nor are we Savages, so he might be holding a Sausage, or maybe a stick of Dynamite, or just a Flare, some things are just ""funny for the Picture""....
EDIT::
Upon closer Inspection, his LEFT HAND is totally Empty, the Redish Orange thing is hanging off his neck on a lanyard, likely some sort of Location Device, in case the Venezuelan Navy sinks the Iwo Jima, all he has to do is break the Glass tube inside the GLOW STICK....
I can't believe I typed those words with a Straight face....
Maybe the military asked him to DJ on the way home.
Oooopps, my bad, I had forgotten how much the U.S. Navy loves Ska and Raves....
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