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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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TAL BAYDAR, Syria — A lieutenant in the middle of calling in an air strike on ISIS fighters has told the pilots he needs just another minute or two to figure out where he is, sources confirmed today.
"Who's got the GPS? This map... I can't even read this thing," 2nd Lt. Anthony Mills was overheard saying, since he continued to key the radio's handset after pausing during one of nine lines of information the pilots need to conduct a bombing run.
Defense officials say the 22-year-old Army officer on his first deployment made the call for close air support just minutes after his patrol was fired upon by what appeared to be a single ISIS fighter armed with an AK-47, which he reported to the combat operations center as an entire battalion of terrorists armed with tanks.
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