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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.

National guardsman feared dead returns to life after three days

CAMP VARNUM, R.I. — A National Guardsman assigned to the 243rd Regional Training Institute Training Regiment missing and feared dead since Friday resurfaced after awakening in a Narragansett cave Sunday morning.

Spc. Yeshua Christo, 33, vanished Friday after going out with friends to celebrate the end of their unit’s two week training cycle. He and a group of twelve were at Jim’s Dock Restaurant in nearby Jerusalem eating and drinking wine at a back table for much of the afternoon, but witnesses say things looked ‘off’ and the scene had a definite theme of finality about it.

“This one fella in the middle was the only one really talking,” said patron Adaiah Paki. “He was passing his wine glass and sharing his plate with the others while lecturing them about something. The other guys looked really nervous. I don’t know, it’s like they knew something bad was about to go down.”

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