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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
Situation Report
[Ed. Note: Duffel Blog has gathered some of the military-themed "missed connections" from Craigslist.com and other sources.]
You: A Talib in brown tribal garb, and what I took to be your teenage daughter. You were beating her with a rock, no doubt for having her period, or some other, equally heinous, crime.
Me: A Marine in a ghillie suit, with an M40A2 and a bad case of dehydration. It's the only time I've missed.
You: A Bangkok prostitute of indeterminate sex, with boobs like peaches and a face like a very naughty angel in that bar down by the pier, where that ship captain got busted.
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