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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.

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Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

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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.

Veteran can't decide which service medal pocket square to wear to new job

CALVERT CITY, Ken. — Tristen Houk is a former air defense artillery soldier fresh out of the U.S. Army who is ready to begin his civilian career. While this transition is often the toughest for many veterans, Tristen has a different type of tough choice to make: which service medal pocket square to wear to his new job.“Its important everyone knows that I am a veteran and I set aside four years of my life to serve our great nation” Houk said as he sipped a Milwaukee’s Best at his local American Legion. “But I am conflicted about which pocket square best highlights my heroic service.”

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