The tattoo is a red-herring for the fact that Platner "served" at Fallujah, was a torture-camp guard at Abu Ghraib, and worked as a mercenary for Blackwater, long after they were pretty much exclusively known for committing war crimes (and had changed their name to avoid the association with said crimes).

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

Enlisted in the Marines, the branch where all the serial killers and white supremacists go to. Continued reenlisting in the same baby face shooting branch. Worked as a mercenary in Blackwater because he couldn't adapt to civie life where he can't shoot babies in the face anymore. Became a petty bourgeois small business owner because working is boring if you can't shoot babies in the face.