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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
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Upside alert! Decomposing corpses are an appetite suppressant!
FORT CAVAZOS, Tx — A young soldier searching for food scraps in a dumpster behind a now-shuttered on-post McDonald’s recently made a grisly discovery. PFC Yan Bing was licking crumbs from the bottom of a bag of “SunChips” when he grabbed a pizza box in hopes of finding a moldy crust and instead exposed the remains of a young woman.
“I haven’t eaten in about three days,” said a visibly emaciated Bing. “But I guess if I am looking on the bright side, finding a dead girl in the trash really makes you lose your appetite.”
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