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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.

Opinion: How is it possible that you lost my medical record AGAIN?

The following is an op-ed written by a staff sergeant who is about to lose his mind at the base medical clinic.

What do you mean you can’t locate my record? I just handed you the 34th copy of it when I checked in for this appointment 87 minutes ago!

You’ve gotta be freakin’ kidding me! I walked up to the counter to check in 20 minutes early, and I handed you the copy and watched you put it in that plastic slot next to the door.

This utterly blows my mind that you have somehow lost it between now and then, when NO ONE has touched it!

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