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
New FOBBIT camouflage blends perfectly with gravel, plywood, and computers
AFGHANISTAN — This week, the U.S. military fields a new camouflage pattern specifically crafted for those soldiers who spend entire deployments behind Hesco barriers and out of harm's way.
Issued to TOC Jockeys, PowerPoint Rangers, and Intel Weenies across the services, the so-called "FOBBIT" print features details perfectly at home in the sterile, pseudo-war environment of a Forward Operating Base, or FOB.
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