A man in a U.S. Navy jacket looks through a scope.
A military man is looking through his sniper scope.
In sentence 2 it cannot be inferred that the man is a military man.  Wearing a military related jacket does not change the occupation of the wearer.  In sentence 1, there are many types of scopes.  My first inclination was that the scope was ship-mounted.
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