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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.

Air Force officer survives seven years of brutal online SERE training

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Air Force Lt. Jack McLane returned to his squadron today following a harrowing seven-year experience attempting to accomplish online SERE Training, Pentagon officials confirmed.

McLane, who initially signed into Joint Knowledge Online to accomplish a mandatory requirement prior to spending a four-day pass in Toronto, Canada, was soon sucked into a vortex of an online training portal which consumed nearly seven years of his life.

"Initially, I thought I'd spend an hour clicking through tabs, like I did with the annual Cybersecurity Challenge," McClane told reporters. "But I soon found myself sitting through endless videos and accomplishing pointless tests just to go on leave."

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