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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.

Deployment queen expecting royal baby

A view from the Royal dining facility.

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN — Officials from the 10th Sustainment Brigade confirmed that Specialist Catherine Rodriguez, who was crowned Deployment Queen upon the brigade's arrival in Afghanistan, is expecting a royal baby.

The startling news comes just three months into the deployment, after Rodriguez was admitted to the Kandahar Airfield's aid station with a severe case of morning sickness. No fewer than fifteen male soldiers have watched over her in the aid station, claiming that they are "just nice and concerned."

The news comes after much speculation over when Rodriguez would become pregnant during the deployment.

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