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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Gidget Fuentes</title>
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		<title>Brrrrrrrr&#8230;..it&#8217;s cold out there</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/06/brrrrrrrr-its-cold-out-there/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/06/brrrrrrrr-its-cold-out-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[7th Fleet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When temperatures go below freezing, perhaps the last place you&#8217;d want to place your lips is anything made of metal. Anyone who&#8217;s ever played in a marching or military band for an outdoor performance knows that the show must go on, regardless of Mother Nature&#8217;s moods. That&#8217;s  just what some members of the U.S. 7th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top SEAL: Amid Hollywood hoopla, quiet preferred</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/27/top-seal-amid-hollywood-hoopla-quiet-preferred/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/27/top-seal-amid-hollywood-hoopla-quiet-preferred/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=10058</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Navy’s “silent” warriors won’t exactly be off radar when “Act of Valor” hits the theaters in February. The movie, produced by the Bandito Brothers, is notable for the use of some real Navy SEALs, rather than more actors, to portray the commandos. Since the successful killing of Osama bin Laden last year, and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And then there are two</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/28/and-then-there-are-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Unmanned systems]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly three years ago, the Navy and defense giant Northrop Grumman Corp. unveiled the X-47B unmanned air system in Palmdale, Calif., showing off the bat-wing-like tailless and pilotless autonomous bomber that is designed to take off and land on aircraft carriers. In February, the first air vehicle made history when it completed its first real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down Under, memories of another ‘Pearl Harbor’</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/25/down-under-memories-of-another-%e2%80%98pearl-harbor%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/25/down-under-memories-of-another-%e2%80%98pearl-harbor%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No doubt the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor stands out as a critical turning point in our nation’s history. Next month, we mark the 70th anniversary, and the nation will join countless veterans and service members in recalling the sacrifice from that day and the amazing generation that stepped up and answered the nation&#8217;s call. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the winner takes home the trophy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/11/and-the-winner-takes-home-the-trophy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/11/and-the-winner-takes-home-the-trophy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basketball]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The 86-pound trophy – you read that right, 86 pounds – is the result of eight weeks and some hard work by a creative team of 30 workers with Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries. A group of them traveled to San Diego for the Michigan State-North Carolina game, with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A flight deck, transformed</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/11/a-flight-deck-transformed/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/11/a-flight-deck-transformed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basketball]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Navy secretary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organizers of the Quicken Loans Carrier Classic game and ESPN were thrilled Thursday that a Pacific storm might hold off any rain until well beyond the basketball game&#8217;s tip-off at 4:15 p.m. Pacific time Friday on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson in San Diego. A rainy forecast had threatened to force [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I wonder what this button does?!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/06/i-wonder-what-this-button-does/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/06/i-wonder-what-this-button-does/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[7th Fleet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We couldn’t help but smile at the faces of these Russian boys, who got the chance to play sailor aboard the destroyer Fitzgerald during an outing from Parus Nadezhdy Children’s Rehabilitation Center in Vladivostok.  If we only knew what they were saying&#8230; The Yokosuka, Japan-based Fitzgerald wrapped up a four-day visit to Russia’s Pacific Fleet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The warm relationship with Chile</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/02/the-warm-relationship-with-chile/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/02/the-warm-relationship-with-chile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3rd Fleet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The quiet diesel-electric submarine Carrera slid through San Diego Bay on Sept. 1 for the start of a three-month deployment to the United States, where the Chilean boat will train with 3rd Fleet’s ships, subs and aircraft. Carrera’s presence in a U.S. port – it calls the submarine piers at Point Loma Naval Base its short-term [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New oldest Frogman – and that’s no bull</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/26/new-oldest-frogman-%e2%80%93-and-that%e2%80%99s-no-bull/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/26/new-oldest-frogman-%e2%80%93-and-that%e2%80%99s-no-bull/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admirals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Aug. 22 retirement of Adm. Eric T. Olson marked the end of the Navy SEAL officer’s 38-year naval career – and the passing of the title of longest-serving SEAL. Olson, a 1973 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, became a SEAL officer in 1974, an achievement that led to a storied career and command [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Know Your AOR&#8221; edition: Spratlys</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/07/22/know-your-aor-edition-spratlys/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/07/22/know-your-aor-edition-spratlys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have caught it in passing on a news ticker or blog, but have no clue what or where on Earth are the Spratly islands. But you hear they are contested islands some defense experts think potentially could spark the start of a regional war. The archipelago is comprised of small atolls, reefs, islets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A unit by any other name &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/17/a-unit-by-any-other-name/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/17/a-unit-by-any-other-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 06:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The trouble with secret military units – the type the U.S. government refuses to acknowledge even exist,  like, say, Delta Force or Area 51 – is this: Just how is the public, including the news media, supposed to identify them accurately if there is no official logo or name? Without it, chances are good that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For these patients, it’s never too late</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/06/for-these-patients-it%e2%80%99s-never-too-late/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/06/for-these-patients-it%e2%80%99s-never-too-late/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 20:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A handful of Navy medical personnel got to witness a bit of history when several 550-year-old patients came through the door last month for some lab work. That’s right – 550 years old, plus or minus a few years. The patients were Peruvian mummies, one adult and four young children, according to the Navy. Their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, we can</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/18/yes-we-can/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/18/yes-we-can/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7994</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hospitalman Briana Bartholomew belts out a &#8220;hooyah!&#8221; after completing several pushups with Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (SS/SW) Rick West in San Diego March 16 at the Sea Service Leadership Association annual women&#8217;s symposium.//Photo by MC1 Elena Pence In a crowd of more than 1,300, Hospitalman Briana Bartholomew answered a challenge from Master [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got pirates?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/02/21/got-pirates/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/02/21/got-pirates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gator Navy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest hijacking an American couple aboard their yacht Quest by Somali pirates is capturing more of the public’s attention than have dozens of other acts of piracy on the high seas, notably off east Africa where pirates are finding gold in the ransoms sought for their captured vessels ranging from large container ships to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona shooting hits close to home</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/10/arizona-shooting-his-close-to-home/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/10/arizona-shooting-his-close-to-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The congresswoman seriously wounded in Saturday’s mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., is a Navy spouse. Rep. Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords, D-Ariz., is one of 13 survivors in the shooting that left six dead at a supermarket shopping center, including an aide. Giffords was shot in the head by the gunman as she met constituents at a “Congress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A tradition of the sea</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/04/a-tradition-of-the-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/04/a-tradition-of-the-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7561</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On a cloudy but humid tropical day, several dozen sailors, donning crisp uniforms, gathered on aircraft carrier Carl Vinson’s port side elevator No. 4 as the ship maneuvered in the waters of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. On a table covered with a blue cloth sat urns of different sizes and colors – 43 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A good day for a swim?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/29/no-day-at-the-beach/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/29/no-day-at-the-beach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is just something about Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training that is, well, photogenic. The grueling, six-month training course at the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado, Calif., is no vacation at the beach. Mother Nature at times makes it much more interesting. With ocean temperatures in the mid-60s – that’s relatively mild for the Pacific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EOD on the front lines</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/23/eod-on-the-front-lines/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/23/eod-on-the-front-lines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EOD]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5715</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On any given day, the Navy’s EOD sailors are deployed in just about every geographical command – and it’s not just Iraq or Afghanistan where explosive ordnance disposal technicians are putting their expertise to save lives and limbs. This week, one-quarter of the nearly-2,600 member EOD force is deployed, according to Navy Expeditionary Combatant Command, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shake a leg</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/25/gimme-a-p/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/25/gimme-a-p/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gator Navy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photograph – of amphibious assault ship Peleliu’s mascot showing off some of his (or her?) latest dance moves to the amazement of school children in Timor-Leste – arrived in Scoop Deck’s inbox this week. For the scores of high-res photos that jam our mail servers, this one provided a sunny break from all things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the flights begin</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/14/let-the-flights-begin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 22:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    You gotta love competition. When Northrop Grumman on Dec. 16, 2008, unveiled its sleek X-47B unmanned bomber – officially, it’s UCAS-D or Unmanned Combat Air Systems-Demonstrator – the stealth-like sleekness of its batwing shape garnered oohs and aahs from the crowd at its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, Calif. The innovative aircraft could be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make way!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/14/give-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 22:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    Talk about concentrated power. The folks at San Diego-based 3rd Fleet this week posted this photograph of three Nimitz-class aircraft carriers (yes, that’s the “68” of Nimitz in the middle, nestled between Carl Vinson, at top, and Ronald Reagan, at bottom) nestled at the berths at North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy leads way, again</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/05/navy-leads-way-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the rare space shuttle that doesn’t shoot toward space without the Navy aboard in some form or fashion. Monday’s predawn launch of Space Shuttle Discovery – officially it’s STS-131 mission – from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center came with two military officers at the helm, including shuttle commander and Navy Capt. Alan G. Poindexter, 49, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This ain&#8217;t no Love Boat</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/02/this-aint-no-love-boat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Drug Buster could be a moniker for the San Diego-based frigate McClusky, which has nearly cornered the market among the gray hulled fleet over the years during deployments while cruising off the coasts of South and Central America. The ship&#8217;s crew  is preparing to depart for yet another counter-drug deployment on Oct. 5, taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What lurks beneath?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/21/what-lurks-beneath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local fishermen in search of some record large-mouth bass in a San Diego-area lake last winter found something else on their electronic fish finder: A World War II carrier bomber. A cursory look determined the airplane is a Curtiss SBC2 Helldiver, a daring dive-bomber that apparently had made an emergency landing into Lower Otay Reservoir, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s take 3 for space shot</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/10/its-take-3-for-space-shot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  It&#8217;s probably a good thing that NASA&#8217;s pool of astronauts include quite a few military officers. Who better to understand the &#8220;hurry up and wait&#8221; lifestyle that is the military? We told you last month about preparations for the planned June 13 launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, whose seven-member crew of space sailors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military space geeks, take note</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/05/military-space-geeks-take-note/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the final week counting down to the scheduled launch of space shuttle Endeavour, whose seven-member crew of space sailors is yet another &#8220;purple&#8221; multi-service representation, including a Navy SEAL. Endeavour is scheduled for a 7:17 a.m. EDT liftoff on Saturday, June 13, from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The 16-day [...]]]></description>
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