CAMP SHELBY, Miss. — In a bold act of incompetence, Army Capt. Justin Bergstrom was relieved for turning in his readiness report on a lethality form last Tuesday.

“This is a careless oversight,” said Lt. Col. Meg Watson, Bergstrom’s battalion commander. “What if that readiness information got routed over into the lethality chain? That readiness might get lost. And then our soldiers wouldn’t be lethal. You understand what I’m saying?”

The error began last week, when a private in the motor pool mistook a high mission-capable rate on the vehicles as being an indicator of lethality and placed the data on a readiness reporting form. That data was rolled up in a PowerPoint presentation on lethality, which was transcribed into a readiness reporting lethality report by the operations sergeant major. Capt. Bergstrom, eager to increase his unit’s readiness, overlooked the error.