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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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HERAT, Afghanistan — Afghan Army Pvt. Abdullah Naiz, a Kunduz native, is dreading the next serving of ball-busting he’s going to get when he comes into work tomorrow, sources within the Afghan National Army 207th Corps report.
Ever since Kunduz was overrun by the Taliban, sources say the guys around the barracks will not stop wrestling Naiz's jimmies about being from "Quitterstan,” or offering him “two tickets to Pussy Town.”
“It started the other day at PT,” whimpered Naiz. “We were doing a formation run, and a bunch of the guys broke out of formation with their hands in the air in surrender yelling, ‘Look, Abdullah, I’m from Kunduz! I can’t get overrun fast enough.’ One even brought a white tube sock to wave as a surrender flag. I laughed a little bit to show I can take the joke, but that’s not funny. We don’t have a lot of socks around here and they’re not toys.”
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