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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 avoids DUI at base entry, arrested for jaywalking

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WA — A major crisis was averted in the early morning hours after Staff Sgt. William Moya apprehended a soldier jaywalking under the influence and placed him into custody.

Moya, a recent transfer from Stuttgart, Germany and no stranger to heroism, claims to have developed a "sixth sense" for ascertaining a suspect's intoxication levels.

"Being around all those Krauts, you get used to the signs. Slurred speech, glazed eyes, anti-Semitic outbursts. Sometimes you can even smell it on a person," Moya revealed.

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