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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.

SEAL team 6 raid on Baghdadi home cancelled due to Calibri font use in PowerPoint

SEAL team 6 raid on Baghdadi home cancelled due to Calibri font use in PowerPoint

TAMPA — A raid by the Navy's SEAL Team 6 to kill or capture the leader of ISIS was cancelled this morning after the operations officer helping to plan the mission used the Calibri font in his PowerPoint briefing, sources confirmed.

According to senior defense officials, the briefing at US Central Command began in the usual way, with weary and depressed staff officers clutching their coffee & iPhones while wishing they were someone else.

That's when Lt. Col. Jack Bremen noticed the operations officer was using Calibri font again. Sources say he also wasn’t using the new slide format that was published in the last fragmentary order sent to the staff, FRAGO 95.002 to OPORD 17-13.

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