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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.

Raven believes in its dreams, successfully takes off

THIS CRAZY, BEAUTIFUL WORLD — Some moments in nature are beautiful simply because of how rare they are. Many beautiful events are nothing compared to the glory that is a raven taking flight.

And then there are some natural events that are indescribable. A warrant officer showing up to PT? There are no words.

When a group of shammers are seen coalescing in the morning by a coffee machine, or when a warrant officer is spotted in the company area: Both are breaths of majesty. But they are not a raven flying.

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