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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.

Chelsea Manning blows excess pay on Dodge challenger and new USB drives just hours after release from prison

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — Just hours after being released from prison, Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning was seen driving up to Whispers Gentlemen’s Club in Basehor, Kansas in a brand new white Dodge Challenger, sources confirmed.

Manning, who had her sentence commuted by President Obama after serving just under four years of a 35-year sentence for espionage and theft, told reporters that she was making up for lost time.

"I'm on excess leave, and this sweet new ride represents all that I — that we as a country — lost in Iraq," she said.

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