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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.

Spouse accidentally wins 'slutty sailor' costume contest

NORFOLK, Va. — A Virginia-based sailor is furious after his wife accidentally won the ship-wide "slutty sailor" costume contest this Halloween, although they were unaware there was a competition taking place, sources confirmed.

The costume contest, held annually for the junior-enlisted members assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), has become the centerpiece of weekend celebrations each year.

“At first I didn’t understand what all the fuss was about," said Seaman Harvey Whitman, from Mobile, Ala. “We walked into the club and everyone started pointing at Kat. I just thought it was because she didn’t have a costume. All the others were dressed up."

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