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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.

Quiet professional wears 'quiet professional' shirt to stress his quiet professionalism

Does this also come in a tank top?

Quiet professional wears 'quiet professional' shirt to stress his quiet professionalism

Retired Army Staff Sgt. Collin Smith is a quiet professional. His t-shirt says so.

“I struggled to find an identity for years. My wife told me to get a hobby that wasn’t service-related, but fuck that,” Smith told Duffel Blog correspondents. “So I took a pretty big risk and started a veteran-focused t-shirt company.”

Collin struggled with this choice. At first, he wanted to start a veteran coffee company, but, he said, “you can’t wear vet coffee.”

The interview began with Collin sitting in his kitchen, wearing a kickass tank top with the words Quiet Professional emblazoned in a tribal font of unknown origin, flames surrounding it.

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