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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.

Major isn't sure where his security detail went

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Army officer in Afghanistan is very lost this afternoon, Duffel Blog has learned, and is hoping to find his security detail as soon as possible.

“Ermm … Yep. Fuck. I don’t know where I am,” Maj. William Spencer reports, scratching nervously under the shoulder strap of his empty plate carrier. “This place is real big.”

Spencer, a requisitions officer out of Ft. Bragg, is on his first deployment to Afghanistan. “To anywhere, really,” he adds. He is tasked with assisting civilian contractors with providing arms and equipment to the Afghan National Army 201st Corps. The assignment involves bi-weekly trips out of his office to an ANA compound on the outskirts of Kabul. For those trips, he is assigned three infantry gun trucks with six dismounts as a personal security detail. Today, he is unsure where his protection detail has gone.

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