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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.

Pentagon says tactical rollerblades only way to defeat China's growing fleet of vert ramps

HONOLULU — A new report from U.S. IndoPacific Command reveals harrowing details about China's growing fleet of vert ramps, which experts say can only be countered by heavy investment in tactical rollerblades.

"We're talking 15-foot ramps, handrails, big air jumps, the works," said INDOPACOM Commander Adm. Philip Davidson. "If we want to assert our supremacy as the gnarliest shredders in the South Pacific, we need every soldier equipped with aggressive, lethal inline skates ASAP."

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