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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.

Quiz: Which global war on terrorism operation are YOU?

Quiz: Which global war on terrorism operation are YOU?

Duffel Blog surveyed all the most popular GWOT operations to identify the characteristics you might associate yourself with. Read the descriptions below to find yours!

Do you always manage to say the wrong thing? Do you trip over your own shoelaces, dance to your own drummer and get too loud at parties? Do you wear loud Hawaiian shirts and get called “the crazy friend?” Is your TV identity Kimmy Gibbler from Full House? Then you might be..

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Sure, sometimes we like to act like it would be better not to have OIF around, but not all operations are perfect. You’ve become a permanent part of the family, warts and all. Think of all the good times.

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