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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.

Soldier recalled from Afghanistan to take wife to appointment

File photo: Soldiers in Afghanistan

FT CAMPBELL, KY – A soldier deployed to Afghanistan for nearly 13 days has been recalled from the volatile Helmand province to take his wife to an appointment for a severe sinus infection, sources confirmed.

After receiving a message from the American Red Cross, Sgt. Timothy Kay returned to his wife Cynthia's arms in a tearful, but happy reunion at Nashville International Airport.

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