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.
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- Prank and File: These Military Reports Are Out of LineThe Wall Street Journal
- Duffel Blog makes fun of military absurdities — and has the Pentagon laughing, tooThe Washington Post
- The Onion In CamoNPR
- Where the U.S. Army Is WinlessTime
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