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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.

Story Roundup

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

Situation Report

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

Army

Army lieutenant beginning to regret OCS class motto tattoo

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – Second Lt. Miguel Herrera, an infantry platoon leader with A Company, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, is a man of great confidence but has a growing sense of doubt. The 23-year-old Miami native has begun to question his decision to get a tattoo of his OCS class motto.

“It seemed like a really hooah idea at the time,” said Herrera. “A bunch of us were in Hotlanta for a long weekend, and the White Claws were flowing free. Then we passed a tattoo place.”

Sources in Fort Benning’s Officer Candidate School report Herrera reported for class the following Monday showing off his new tattoo — an American flag adorned with crossed Infantry rifles and a Punisher skull, with their platoon motto emblazoned across the top.

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