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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.

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Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

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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.

Lost Space Force lieutenant wanders into wormhole

Lost Space Force lieutenant wanders into wormhole
Photo by NASA Hubble Space Telescope / Unsplash

SPACE — While training with the inaugural class of the recently announced U.S. Space Force, sources say Lt. j.g. Tyler Shoelaces got lost during a navigation exercise and wandered into a wormhole.

According to Space Force officials, the introductory class "Space Navigation: 101" is a simple navigation course conducted just a few thousand miles above Earth's surface. However, radio signals from Shoelaces' ship indicate he drifted at least half a dozen light years outside the Solar System.

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