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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.

Former E-1 hired as military consultant on new action film

HOLLYWOOD, CA – Former U.S. Army Private Jonathan Fleckstein has found a lucrative new career in Hollywood as a military technical consultant to film and television productions dealing with military matters.

In the four years since separating from the Army, which he served in for ten months, the native Angelino has taken part in the production of three movies and five television series, advising the producers on such matters as military customs and courtesies, rank structure, weaponry, and the current state of the war on terror.

“When I was at Aberdeen Proving Grounds [sic] training to be a wheeled-vehicle mechanic, I really got to understand the concepts of marching, saluting, and clearing my weapon. I try to bring my expertise in that sort of in-your-face realism to the movie sets I work at,” Fleckstein told Duffel Blog.

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