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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.

Missing F-35 found dead after breakup with pilot

Suicide or murder? Investigators considering all possibilities

Missing F-35 found dead after breakup with pilot

The F-35 Lightning II was known to be highly emotional.

WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY, South Carolina — Search and Rescue crews confirmed the remains of an F-35 Lightning II fighter have been located after the most advanced airplane in the world either committed suicide or was murdered during a mid-flight breakup with its pilot, Marine Capt. Steven “Winwood” Wodnall, on August 17, 2023.

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