Periscope

You can take the Rangers out of the submarine, but you can't take the submarine out of the Rangers.
OR: No, you cannot install a periscope on your Jaeger
==Meta==
Part 11.5.5 of the "Know Your Rangers" series, originally published here on March28/2015. 
Author's note: "This one’s on shmoo92."
early 2016, Hong Kong, HK, China
==Text==
""Hey, Dad?""
"Titles, Officer."
Chantell rolls her eyes. "/Marshal, remember how you asked the Quartermaster to let you know if anything weird showed up for one of our teams?"
"I remember that very, very well," says Marshal Nguyen.
"Yea, that was a bad day." Chantell shudders. "Well, a box of oversized, precision-ground optics just showed up for VS-01."
"I take it they're not on the parts list."
"Nope." Chantell perches on the edge of Nguyen's desk. "In fact, no one on the construction or design team knows who ordered them or why."
"I have a feeling I know where this is headed."
"Does it involve pitchforks?"
He heaves a long-suffering sigh. "Unfortunately."
"The engineers took a look and said the only thing they could think of to do with 'em was build a periscope. A very /large periscope."
Nguyen pinches the bridge of his nose. "How many times did I tell them they couldn't install one?"
Chantell consults her tablet. "I count fifteen times in person and twenty-three over email."
"And what reasoning have I tried with them already?"
"'A Jaeger is no place for a periscope', 'there are cameras and sensors so use them', 'VS-01 hasn't been assigned a team yet and it won't go to either of you', and variations of all of those ...."
"And how many times have we thwarted an attempt?"
"This's the sixth. At least they're trying harder to hide it now."
"And how long since they were assigned to /Triton?"
"Eight months."
"This. This is why Xiong told me to turn down the job and retire."
"Soooo, this is probably a bad time to tell you about what the leading candidates to be VS-01's pilots just did."
"Yes, it's a very bad time for that." He closes his eyes for a ten-count. "Call the submariners up to my office for a polite chat—"
"Will do!"
"—and see if we can get our money back on the parts they ordered."
""On it!""
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