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damnit jim, i’m a pilot, not a cartographer

Some facts about my activities of late:

We are required to produce a map book. This book contains 30 infantry-scale maps, 1:50,000. The maps are folded in such a way that you can flip the ‘pages’ in any of the four cardinal directions and get to the appropriate adjacent map. The maps are marked up to reflect current events in the local area. Marking each map takes about an hour. Assembling them into the book form takes another three or four.

The army provides software with which one could just print out all the maps, pre-marked-up, but we aren’t allowed to use it for this exercise. If that were allowed, we could finish the assignment in a single day.

I came across a fun song on the radio today. You should listen to it.

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