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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.

Junior enlisted trapped in Okinawa barracks begin eating each other

OKINAWA, Japan — Pandemonium and debauchery has descended upon military personnel confined to their barracks in Okinawa, sources confirmed today.

Bits and pieces of information is still coming in, but we have confirmed reports of murder, cannibalism, and the refinement of moonshine. The news comes just days after all US forces were placed on lockdown after a drunk driving incident.

Sources initially said this seemed to be only a Marine thing, but it was later learned that all services participated.

"It turned into Lord of the Flies real quick," one source said. “The hardest part was getting an isolated fire started in the barracks without burning the whole place down."

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