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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Andrew Scutro</title>
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		<title>Cyber-citizens back SEALs</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/27/cyber-citizens-back-seals/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/27/cyber-citizens-back-seals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEALs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the social media world, there&#8217;s growing disbelief over the detainee abuse allegations against three Navy SEALs, which came to light this week. The three were charged in connection with the alleged abuse of the purported mastermind of the 2004 ambush in Fallujah, in which four contractors from Blackwater were hanged and burned. After the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He flew low over Cuba, then visited 39 years later</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/13/he-flew-low-over-cuba-then-visited-39-years-later/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/13/he-flew-low-over-cuba-then-visited-39-years-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some of us here at Scoop Deck prefer to take our news from paper. The deliberate design of words and images on pages you can turn allows a reader to find news or information he or she might have otherwise missed by pointing and clicking. Take obituaries. They often make good reads not because someone is dead, but because the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Maybe you ought to surf somewhere else&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/10/maybe-you-ought-to-surf-somewhere-else/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/10/maybe-you-ought-to-surf-somewhere-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Pacific]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The looming U.S. military build-up in Guam has some asking how everyone will fit on the Pacific island. Surfers, as it turns out in this story, are also wondering how everyone will get along when more non-locals try to catch waves too.]]></description>
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		<title>San Juan and the SANDF</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/06/san-juan-and-the-sandf/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/06/san-juan-and-the-sandf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In what&#8217;s becoming almost a habit, another U.S. Navy ship has stopped to visit South Africa. On Nov. 4, the fast attack submarine San Juan pulled into Simon&#8217;s Town for what 6th Fleet bills as a &#8220;first-ever, at-sea&#8221; engagement with that nation&#8217;s undersea fleet. San Juan follows the destroyer Arleigh Burke, which arrived in Durban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new Ford model</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/05/the-new-ford-model/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/05/the-new-ford-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Northrop Grumman has announced a date for the ceremonial keel-laying of the Navy&#8217;s new class of aircraft carrier. On Nov. 14, dignitaries and media will crowd into the Newport News shipyard for a ceremonial beginning of the Gerald R. Ford, CVN 78. The last of the Nimitz-class carriers, the George H.W. Bush, was commissioned on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just don&#8217;t call &#8216;em desert squids</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/03/just-dont-call-em-desert-squids/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/03/just-dont-call-em-desert-squids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[individual augmentees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At one point in the Navy&#8217;s recent history, sailors serving ashore in Iraq and Afghanistan, often as individual augmentees in Army units, took to calling themselves &#8220;dirt sailors.&#8221; The brass didn&#8217;t like that, we learned. Maybe it was due to the implied value of &#8220;dirt.&#8221; Sailors, accustomed to being at sea and surrounded by water were merely being observant, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vectors. Found, and lost.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/27/vectors-found-and-lost/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/27/vectors-found-and-lost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personnel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  Some things are just motivating, like the last few words of the Star Spangled Banner, sacks of cash, hot steak sandwiches and of course, the Five Vector Model. The Scoop Deck staff is on an eternal search for reliable sightings of the Five Vector Model and yes, we found another one, pictured above. It was in Groton. Here is one example we keep in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Undersea update</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/23/undersea-update/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/23/undersea-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for the Naval Submarine League&#8217;s annual symposium next week here near Washington, D.C., the good news arrives that the ballistic missile submarine West Virginia successfully launched two unarmed D-5 Trident II ballistic missiles on Oct 23., likely off the Navy&#8217;s missile test facility in Port Canaveral, Fla.  Maybe more likely to come up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combination covers, combined</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/08/combination-covers-combined/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/08/combination-covers-combined/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Officers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When admirals from 100 different navies gather, they need a place to stack their covers. This was the pile-up outside a meeting of the International Seapower Symposium at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. on Oct. 7.  Scoop Deck usually has a sharp eye for detail but this one is a tough nut. Good luck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there a separate Facebook for officers?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/22/is-there-a-separate-facebook-for-officers/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/22/is-there-a-separate-facebook-for-officers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Officers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was only a matter of time. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead has a Facebook page. He also has a Twitter account.]]></description>
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		<title>Paint your own cammies</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/21/paint-your-own-cammies/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/21/paint-your-own-cammies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uniforms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this photo taken aboard the cruiser Anzio in the Middle East. Good to know that if you can&#8217;t afford the new Navy Working Uniform (which was designed to hide grease and paint), a bucket of paint and a set of blue coveralls will do the trick. So wait &#8230; the Navy spent $226 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first of many videos from 5th Fleet</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/14/the-first-of-many-videos-from-5th-fleet/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/14/the-first-of-many-videos-from-5th-fleet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck recently returned from a month in the 5th Fleet area. We were lucky enough to ride the Norfolk-based cruiser Anzio from the pier in Bahrain to the counterpiracy patrol area off the coast of Somalia. Check out this video from Anzio as the ship finished its transit through the Strait of Hormuz.]]></description>
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		<title>Gas with cookies (updated)</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/11/gas-with-cookies/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/11/gas-with-cookies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The cruiser Anzio was clearly not the first replenishment at sea for the fleet oiler John Lenthall, seen here off the coast of Somalia. Quite a few ships have met up with Lenthall for a rendezvous before. The crew of the Anzio however, had the decency when it was over to tie a bag of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The view from the bow</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/the-view-from-the-bow/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/the-view-from-the-bow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After entering the Persian Gulf aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, the ship passed several dhows nearby and was followed by a speedboat that kept up for quite some time. Among the crew watching the watchers was this sailor, positioned in the bow, just off the flight deck.]]></description>
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		<title>Smugglers!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/smugglers/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/smugglers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck was lucky enough recently to do a daylight transit through the Strait of Hormuz, out of the Persian Gulf, aboard the Norfolk-based cruiser Anzio. While passing islands off to the Oman side, these smugglers dashed toward Iran. They were really moving fast and went across the bow to avoid the big warship&#8217;s wake. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A horse sailor</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/a-horse-sailor/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/a-horse-sailor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[individual augmentees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uniforms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one that might throw you off. From a distance you&#8217;d think &#8220;soldier,&#8221; but in fact Scoop Deck found this sailor in Kuwait turning in gear after an individual augmentee assignment with the Army&#8217;s 1st Cavalry Division. According to the latest information from 5th Fleet, there are 4,950 IAs throughout the Central Command area.]]></description>
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		<title>Make it Pop-Tarts and khat for Somali pirates</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/25/make-it-pop-tarts-and-khat-for-somali-pirates/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/25/make-it-pop-tarts-and-khat-for-somali-pirates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pirates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE CRUISER ANZIO OFF SOMALIA &#8212; It&#8217;s always a good idea to know some of the local language and culture, no matter what or where. In recent years U.S. forces have had to rely on native speakers in Iraq, Afghanistan and on missions like this one off the Horn of Africa. A Somali-born linguist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Stand and Fight&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/25/stand-and-fight/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/25/stand-and-fight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE CRUISER ANZIO OFF SOMALIA &#8212; We set out from Bahrain on Aug. 16, embarked on this, the flagship for counterpiracy Task Force 151. With extra staff and special personnel, just about every rack is taken, to the point where the junior officers are living in forward ops berthing, former lair of the boatswain&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life on an oil tanker: Pirates and hecklers</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/20/life-on-an-oil-tanker-pirates-and-hecklers/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/20/life-on-an-oil-tanker-pirates-and-hecklers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[merchant ships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pirates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD AL BASRA OIL TERMINAL IN THE PERSIAN GULF &#8212; If there is one thing that really scares mariners these days, it&#8217;s the risk of hijackers off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden. For Capt. Baig, the Pakistani skipper of the 21-year-old Korean-built very large crude carrier M.T. Dorado, his list of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fried COD</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/13/fried-cod/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/13/fried-cod/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody who rides CODs (carrier on-board delivery) surely has a story. The rumpled DV kid who barfed, the two-hour orbit over the carrier, the guy who acted just like the annoying guy on a normal airplane who would not stop talking despite the industrial noise levels. Et cetera.  Don&#8217;t get us wrong. CODs are deceptively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace through superior slapshot</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/13/peace-through-superior-slapshot/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/13/peace-through-superior-slapshot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The San Diego-based carrier Ronald Reagan boasts a number of sports teams, including an actual ice hockey team. They are in a competitive league back in home port and they played two games during a recent port visit in the Persian Gulf.  They lost the first game 12-0 against the Abu Dhabi Scorpions but came roaring back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missile hits missile. Again.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/31/missile-hits-missile-again/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/31/missile-hits-missile-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago we posted about an upcoming ballistic missile intercept test from the destroyer Hopper in the Pacific. According to the Missile Defense Agency it was a success, recorded on video. It was the 19th successful test of the seagoing Aegis-BMD system out of 23 attempts. Details. Hitting a ballistic missile with another missile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The politics and correctnesss of ship names</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/30/the-politics-and-correctnesss-of-ship-names/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/30/the-politics-and-correctnesss-of-ship-names/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updating a previous Scoop Deck blog post, naval aviation blogger Steeljaw Scribe has taken up taken up a noble cause. A bill underway in Congress to name the second or third Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers after the late, conservative Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona has prompted Steeljaw to rally against the practice of naming flat-tops after polititians. At least the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hopper in SM-3 test</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/29/hopper-in-sm-3-test/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/29/hopper-in-sm-3-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1562</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[   Scoop Deck has learned that the destroyer Hopper will take part in a ballistic missile intercept test on Thursday off Hawaii.  Unlike the land-based interceptor tests also conducted by the Ballistic Missile Defense program, the Standard Missile-3 is shot out of vertical launch missile tubes aboard AEGIS-equipped warships during the seaborne BMD tests. Like previous tests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Props to CG-64</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/28/props-to-cg-64/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/28/props-to-cg-64/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The cruiser Gettysburg was named the winner of the USS Arizona Memorial Trophy for calendar years 2007 and 2008. As a member of the Enterprise Carrier Strike Group, Gettyburg excelled in combat readiness and battle efficiency. More information on the Arizona trophy, the Arleigh Burke Fleet Trophy and the Marjorie Sterrett Award.]]></description>
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		<title>Just don&#8217;t drink the water</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/27/just-dont-drink-the-water/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/27/just-dont-drink-the-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck has been told by friends in the Navy that duty in Italy is widely popular. The food and lifestyle is often fondly recalled. But according to this report there are unseen hazards for those posted in Naples.]]></description>
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		<title>Is VCNO like an XO but with stars?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/24/is-vcno-like-an-xo-but-with-stars/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/24/is-vcno-like-an-xo-but-with-stars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Adm. Jonathan Greenert turned over command of U.S. Fleet Forces to Adm. John Harvey Jr. aboard the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman on the Norfolk waterfront. Harvey comes from the Pentagon where he ran the Navy staff and Greenert goes to the Pentagon to become the Vice Chief of Naval Operations. Fleet Forces is the mother of all type commands. Headquartered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe the chief ate all five vectors</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/23/maybe-the-chief-ate-all-five-vectors/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/23/maybe-the-chief-ate-all-five-vectors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chow]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It used to be that you couldn&#8217;t swing a dead cat and not hit a Five Vector Model. But it&#8217;s been a few years without a single dead cat/5vM mishap.  Once everywhere, now vapor. Once always in arm&#8217;s reach, now gone on a midnight train to Georgia. Above please find one of the last confirmed sightings of a 5vM, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Hampshire home from Europe</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/22/new-hampshire-home-from-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/22/new-hampshire-home-from-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Virginia-class attack submarine New Hampshire returned today to  its homeport of New London, Conn., after its maiden voyage.  New Hampshire operated in the European Command area and took part in the UK&#8217;s Joint Warrior &#8212; formerly known as Neptune Warrior &#8212; exercise. Other Virginia-class boats have done short first deployments to the 4th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A close call in New London</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/21/a-close-call-in-new-london/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/21/a-close-call-in-new-london/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck was relieved to learn that the crew of the attack submarine Toledo found a crack in its topside hull that penetrated the pressure hull. Relieved that is, that they found the crack before getting underway. Sources tell us this is a very serious issue that could have had deadly results if gone undetected. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scuttlebutt from down under</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/17/scuttlebutt-from-down-under/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/17/scuttlebutt-from-down-under/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[//Australian Government While you&#8217;re waiting for the night flight to Vegas or you&#8217;re just waiting for a bag of frozen steaks to thaw, check out this video from the Aussie fleet. The relevance is both Scoop Deck&#8217;s unrelenting curiosity about other naval forces as well as the looming arrival of Australian frigates Ballarat and Sydney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Unchallenged at sea&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/16/unchallenged-at-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/16/unchallenged-at-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  With the destroyer Arleigh Burke recently in port in South Africa, Scoop Deck got to learning about that nation&#8217;s navy. Check out the website. Of particular interest to those sailors who think the U.S. Navy should allow beards again, look at uniform regulations, under the &#8220;about us&#8221; section.  Not quite ZZ Top, but not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failure to (re)launch</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/15/failure-to-relaunch/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/15/failure-to-relaunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a steady cascade of reports out of Great Britain about a lack of support for Royal Navy involvement in the next iteration of the Trident missile submarine. The argument is that with likely threats not coming from an actual country that can be punched back with a sea-launched ballistic missile, scarce dollars, if spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Strive to Win&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/07/strive-to-win/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/07/strive-to-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck was disappointed to learn this week about a brewing controversy in the Royal Australian Navy. Male sailors aboard the unrep ship Success were found to have kept a betting pool at sea, with awards to those who were sexually successful with female shipmates. Reportedly the events were recorded in a sort of logbook and certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dread not, a heavy helo</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/06/dread-not-a-heavy-helo/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/06/dread-not-a-heavy-helo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The General Dynamics version of the littoral combat ship, LCS 2 Independence, went out for sea trials last week.  Touted for its speed, LCS 2 also boasts a huge flight deck that cannot support the weight of an H-53, our colleagues across the newsfloor at Defense News have learned.   However the now retired battleship Wisconsin appears to have been able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squared away or sloppy. You decide.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/26/squared-away-or-sloppy-you-decide/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/26/squared-away-or-sloppy-you-decide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chiefs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, then-Surface Force Master Chief (SW/AW) Michael Schanche put out a message (second item) about a trip to the waterfront in San Diego that left him &#8220;professionally embarrassed&#8221; for the first time in his career. He expressed dismay at an overall lack of military bearing, courtesies and good appearance. A year has passed and Navy Times decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No ma&#8217;am, &#8216;Letterman&#8217; is a callsign. I swear.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/25/no-maam-letterman-is-his-callsign-i-swear/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/25/no-maam-letterman-is-his-callsign-i-swear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska needs no introduction. With the campaign long over, she&#8217;s still an instant news item, at the ballpark and from a now cooled skirmish with Dave Letterman. She&#8217;s news in the Navy too. Palin, and her husband Todd, embarked as distinguished visitors aboard the aircraft carrrier John C. Stennis in the Gulf of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thankfully, the Russians are coming</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/24/thankfully-the-russians-are-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/24/thankfully-the-russians-are-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=939</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[FRUKUS, a normally annual naval exercise for France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the U.S. handily provides its own acronymn with first letters for each country. All four nations began holding the annual get-together in 2003 but it was cancelled last year after the U.S. suspended military-to-military activities with the Russian Federation following its conflict with Georgia, the nation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White knuckles and buried treasure</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/17/white-knuckles-and-buried-treasure/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/17/white-knuckles-and-buried-treasure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  In what was sure to be a stomach-churning evolution, amphibious command ship Mount Whitney was refueled underway by the fleet oiler John Lenthall on June 12 in 12-foot seas and 40-mph wind in the Baltic Sea.  As one observer put it, Mount Whitney must have been pretty thirsty to pull that off. By way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#8216;moaning&#8217; like complaining?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/16/is-moaning-like-complaining/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/16/is-moaning-like-complaining/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not always clear how to take the old phrase that &#8220;A complaining sailor is a happy sailor.&#8221;  Does that mean when the crew goes silent they are so miserable it&#8217;s time to station sentries in officer country? In the case of a former foe turned ally, when their troops moan it&#8217;s cause for embarrassment.]]></description>
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		<title>No more fun of any kind</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/15/no-more-fun-of-any-kind/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/15/no-more-fun-of-any-kind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  Scoop Deck was saddened at the news last week that lawmakers in Bahrain are cracking down on bars on that hot desert island. Saddened because off-duty time there is fun&#8211;sort of the way the bar in Star Wars might have been fun. For the most part both expats and locals are friendly and though it needs no explaining, cold beer has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summertime in the fleet</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/12/summertime-in-the-fleet/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/12/summertime-in-the-fleet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Naval Academy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Officers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again. Yes, it&#8217;s summer and that means it&#8217;s time for midshipman cruises. All season, they&#8217;re out with the fleet learning the ropes and charting a course for what kind of Navy or Marine Corps officer they might become. Or not. Got a good sea story from when you were a mid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yours, not mine</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/11/yours-not-mine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. 6th Fleet announced today that a service ship from Sweden&#8217;s navy discovered a &#8220;mine line&#8221; that might be &#8220;evidence of a minefield.&#8221; The find was made during Baltic Operations 2009 or BALTOPS. It&#8217;s not outside the realm, as 100,000 sea mines were laid between Sweden and Lithuania back in in WWI and WWII and of them, 60,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New admirals, arriving</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/11/new-admirals-arriving/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/11/new-admirals-arriving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago Scoop Deck asked about the delayed release of the O-7 list. It&#8217;s coming out today, we are told. See story on our website.]]></description>
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		<title>Deep searches underway for jet data</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/10/deep-searches-underway-for-jet-data/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/10/deep-searches-underway-for-jet-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The French nuclear-powered submarine Emeraude (S 604) has arrived to begin searching for the black boxes from Air France flight 447, it was announced earlier. Yesterday two of the U.S. Navy&#8217;s pinger locators were sent down to Brazil to help find the signal emitted from the sunken flight data recorders.  A defense official told us yesterday the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But will it fit under a cranial?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/05/but-will-it-fit-under-a-cranial/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/05/but-will-it-fit-under-a-cranial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uniforms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to a little known section of the uniform regs, wigs for women and men are OK in the Navy as long as they don&#8217;t clog a spinning turbine or get sucked into any rotor blades. No joke. &#8220;Wigs or hairpieces shall be of good quality and fit, present a natural appearance and conform to the grooming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sloppy or squared away?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/05/sloppy-or-squared-away/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/05/sloppy-or-squared-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Officers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago we began asking for opinions and observations from throughout the Navy with an eye toward sailors, chiefs and officers who do not seem to care about fitness, their uniform or simple military courtesies.  The curiosity was inspired by a message sent a year ago by then-Force Master Chief (SW/AW) Mike Schanche of Naval Surface Forces, expressing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who are the new admirals?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/04/who-are-the-new-admirals/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/04/who-are-the-new-admirals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Officers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year the active-duty line one-star list came out on April 1. In 2007 the list came out on April 27, in 2006 it was May 4, in 2005 it was April 2 and so on.  It&#8217;s now into June and the coming year&#8217;s list of captains making flag rank has still not hit the streets. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;speaking of uniforms</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/02/speaking-of-uniforms/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/02/speaking-of-uniforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uniforms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An assortment of war suits here. Send us your best guess of where on the earth a purple pattern was found to be effective.]]></description>
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		<title>Covered all but coveralls</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/02/covered-all-but-coveralls/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/02/covered-all-but-coveralls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  A May 27 visit by the first President Bush to the new aircraft carrier bearing his name revealed, well, a lack of uniformity. There are four, count &#8216;em, four different Navy uniforms visible in one space on the ship, where you might expect to see at least one clean set of practical and popular coveralls. Oddly enough, the Iraqi [...]]]></description>
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