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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.

Soldier legitimately just wants to go sightseeing in Thailand

CAMP CASEY, South Korea — A young Army specialist stationed in Korea legitimately just wants to go sightseeing in Thailand, although some unsettling behavior by members of his unit in recent days has given him doubts, sources confirmed today.

"The first sergeant calls me into his office for what I thought was gonna be a safety lecture," said Spc. Lance Brender, "but then he fist bumps me and just says, 'aww yeah.'"

Although Brender thought that perhaps the first sergeant was just enthusiastic about cheap airfare and close proximity to Thailand, he later heard soldiers whispering behind his back in the motor pool, while others began nodding their heads and flashing ear-to-ear grins.

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