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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.

Local veteran sparks outrage after refusing to start military-themed business

RICHMOND, Va. — Recently-separated Army Sgt. Vince Mills has stunned the local veteran community by refusing to start his own small business selling military-themed items, according to neighbors familiar with the situation.

The furor started last week when Mills, an infantryman who deployed twice to Iraq and Afghanistan, told friends at a going-away party that he intended to join the national forest service and become a park ranger.

“It’s just a fucking disgrace is what it is,” said Ricky Valentino, a former Army supply specialist and owner of Patriot’s Delight Residential Lighting Emporium.

Flint Steel, CEO and co-founder of Angry Babykiller Infidel Apparel, was more blunt.

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