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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.

Father of nine tasked with planning Afghanistan pullout

Father of nine tasked with planning Afghanistan pullout

RESOLUTE SUPPORT HQ, Afghanistan — The potential for an end to The Forever War has prompted the generals in Afghanistan to scramble to create a formal plan for how to leave. Maj. Robert “Bob” Virile is up to the task.

Bob is a real family man, and the perfect individual from a Public Relations perspective.

Gen. Mike “Night” Shyamalan, acting commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, had much to say about his decision to order Bob to take the lead.

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