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
SEAL’s tell-all haiku wins ship’s poetry slam
SEAL Team 5-7-5 fights to victory
SEAL candidates recite US poet Laureate Ada Limon’s “The Endlessness”.
NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY, BAHRAIN - A SEAL squad member embarked upon the USS Lake Erie (CG 70) won accolades and raised eyebrows with a poem that both tugs at human heartstrings and possibly discloses national security information.
As part of the Aegis cruiser’s first “Siegfried Sassoon Poetry Slam,” Chief Petty Officer (CPO) Zohar Perez of the ship’s SEAL anti-piracy squad took first place among several entries for his haiku:
“Darkest of deserts
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Trump mulls leaving seamen in Iran without Plan B
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Congress proposes veterans fight to the death for expanded benefits
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Hegseth declares blow jobs not gay if both men are fit, clean-shaven
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