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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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THE BARRACKS — An anonymous newsletter recently posted in the barracks is starting to make the rounds on social media and states veterans should attend four-year universities because co-eds totally want to bone rugged men.
The letter states that military veterans should apply as soon as possible in order to attend college immediately upon leaving the service, and compares university culture to an unending deployment to Thailand.
The Base Public Affairs Officer said the newsletter has nothing to do with base policy and does not represent the views of the Armed Forces. However, he noted that as a former enlisted guy he was buried in so much ass in college that he had to move off campus during his second semester.
The newsletter, which went viral just days after a similar viral newsletter from The University of Colorado called for veterans to banned from campus, reads as follows:
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