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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.
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Situation Report
2020 is well under way, and the drawdown in the Middle East has reversed course. We now have a whole new brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division deployed, new units are moving into Poland and the Pacific, and an entire new branch—the Space Force, which may deploy soldiers to the Moon as early as August [citation needed]. As we continue our proud tradition of providing comfort and entertainment to service members wherever they may be serving our beloved country, the United Service Organizations (USO) announces our 2020 entertainer tour lineup!
*Not an inclusive list, check local USO office. Schedule subject to change due to conflicts, weather, security conditions and entertainers being Cancelled from polite society because of a mild joke about someone's ethnicity they made back in 1978.
Musical Acts: Cage the Elephant; Toad the Wet Sprocket; James Clinton and the R. Funk Somestars; Utter Torment; Megabreath; Plaintain Fontenot; Tilly Somers; Erikah Badon’t; and Tactical Muffintop
Comedians: Dave Attell; Nikki Glaser; Paul the Plumber (“Tape ‘er tiiiight!”); Tam-pone; Uncle Father; and Fartbox
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