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Inside the paid Sunday Reader. The full edition is included with Supporter; free readers may receive a preview.

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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.

Opinion: I call you ‘sir’ but that doesn’t mean I respect you, sir

How about a middle finger salute?

Opinion: I call you ‘sir’ but that doesn’t mean I respect you, sir

My leave was denied for the third training weekend in a row? Understood, sir.

Can you please sign this quarterly awards package I submitted to you two quarters ago? Sir.

I appreciate you taking the time to counsel me on email etiquette. Sir. I don’t know what I would do without your constant vigilance to keep me in line. Sir.

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