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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.

SEALs, large great dane solve mystery of the phantom oil tanker

CYPRUS – A team of Navy SEALs and their large Great Dane have successfully solved the mystery of the phantom oil tanker, according to a spokesman from the U.S. 6th Fleet.

"Now let's see who you really are!" said SEAL Team 6 leader Lt. Randal Dickinson, from Groveland, Fla., as he pulled the rubber mask off the phantom ghost pirate, who hijacked the tanker Morning Glory from the Libyan porta of Sirta earlier this month.

"Old Man Belmokhtar!" all the team members exclaimed in surprise, upon seeing the former leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb dressed up in a pirate costume.

"Of course!" said Dickinson. "That explains why he was the only one not in the ship's galley; he was changing into his pirate outfit!"

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