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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.

Troops fly happy socks at half mast to honor memory of Hugh Hefner

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — After news broke last night of the passing of the iconic Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, troops across the globe decided to honor his memory with a ceremonial flying of happy-socks at half mast, sources confirmed today.

His death was announced by a spokesperson for Playboy magazine, a publication founded in the 1950's that became one of the most recognizable icons in the industry, if not the world. All across DoD facilities, bathrooms and port-a-johns are adorned with the magazines for "professional military education" during otherwise mundane bathroom activities.

The magazine has served in every war America has fought in since its creation in 1953, according to defense officials.

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