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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Phil Ewing</title>
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		<title>Thanks for reading</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/15/thanks-for-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is my last day at Navy Times, and this will be my last post here on the Deck. I&#8217;ve gotten the chance to do many cool things in this job &#8212; trapped aboard aircraft carriers; flown in an MV-22 Osprey; visited several far-flung countries; dived on a nuclear submarine; and hit 40+ knots on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a great big gator to take tiny sips</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/15/getting-a-great-big-gator-to-take-tiny-sips/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/15/getting-a-great-big-gator-to-take-tiny-sips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Efficiency is what&#8217;s hot these days in the surface Navy, and, as such, Naval Sea Systems Command has announced its latest effort to squeeze every last drop out of the fuel brought aboard the fleet&#8217;s Wasp-class big-deck amphibious ships. NavSea is putting new combustion trim loop systems in the engines aboard all seven of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mesa Verde plays pinch hitter</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/15/mesa-verde-plays-pinch-hitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The deckplates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The amphibious transport dock Mesa Verde, which just returned from a deployment to the Middle East in August, will head back out to the 5th Fleet area again this summer, taking a spot that was supposed to be filled by its older sibling, the San Antonio. San Antonio&#8217;s latest repairs probably won&#8217;t be finished in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fate of LCS, cont&#8217;d.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/14/the-fate-of-lcs-contd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Galrahn has been reading a lot of news stories and think-tank studies and such lately, and he has come to this conclusion: The strategic winds are blowing such that the Navy&#8217;s littoral combat ship won&#8217;t survive the next infamous Pentagon budgetary rock-drill known as POM 12. That rock-drill will be keyed off a CNA study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking the talk, or, The dessert that nobody wants</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/13/the-dessert-that-nobody-wants/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/13/the-dessert-that-nobody-wants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, not long after Navy Secretary Ray Mabus began his job, he invited a group of journalists to the Pentagon for an introductory chat. He was still trying to get his bearings in the nonstop party called the Puzzle Palace, and described a steep learning curve with all the unfamiliar acronyms and technical terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the new &#8216;Navy&#8217; needed a news-paper</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/13/when-the-new-navy-needed-a-news-paper/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/13/when-the-new-navy-needed-a-news-paper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our archives department here at Army Times Publishing Co. Gannett Government Media Corp. was doing some research this month into new ways to illustrate how much money service members will get next time around: Giant sacks with dollar signs? Piles of cash? Scrooge McDuck swimming in a warehouse full of gold coins? But instead it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aftermath and legacy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/12/aftermath-and-legacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years after the bombing of the destroyer Cole, could a U.S. warship today handle a similar attack? Crew members today are more alert for small boats, ships have new weapons specifically to keep potential threats at bay, and the Navy seems generally more mindful about sending ships into ports where unpleasantness might occur. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten years gone</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/12/ten-years-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chief Electronics Technician Richard Costelow, Morrisville, Penn. Signalman Seaman Recruit Cheron Luis Gunn, Rex, Ga. Seaman James Rodrick McDaniels, Norfolk, Va. Seaman Recruit Lakiba Nicole Palmer, San Diego, Calif. Operations Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Lamont Saunders, Ringgold, Va. Ensign Andrew Triplett, Macon, Miss. Seaman Apprentice Craig Bryan Wibberley, Williamsport, Md. Hull Maintenance Technician 3rd Class, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new queen of the Lego seas</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/11/a-new-queen-of-the-lego-seas/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/11/a-new-queen-of-the-lego-seas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way, way back in the early days of Scoop Deck, we wondered whether any Lego model could ever rival this 1/40 scale version of the Imperial Japanese Navy&#8217;s super-battleship Yamato. Now, something has: An entire Lego battle group, and one appropriately centered around that which eclipsed the battleship as the big-dog of the seas: An [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The brass argues: Who gets to nuke the North?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/11/the-brass-argues-who-gets-to-nuke-the-north/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/11/the-brass-argues-who-gets-to-nuke-the-north/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning&#8217;s AP report about the U.S. military&#8217;s newly declassified nuclear weapons plans for North Korea is an absolute must read. Did you know the infamous Gen. Douglas MacArthur had a plan to hit the North with 30 to 50 nuclear weapons? That the U.S. has seriously considered nuking the North at least six times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A vessel for a voyage to the other side</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/11/a-vessel-for-a-voyage-to-the-other-side/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/11/a-vessel-for-a-voyage-to-the-other-side/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone with memories of childhood model-making &#8212; and I don&#8217;t mind saying that the MiG 29 kit I built in sixth grade was the greatest achievement in aeronautical engineering up to that time &#8212; will feel like a piker compared to 82 year-old hobbyist Earl Wehner of Dickinson, S.D. With nothing more than a &#8220;small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Once thing is certain: We can&#8217;t ignore them&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/08/once-thing-is-certain-we-cant-ignore-them/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/08/once-thing-is-certain-we-cant-ignore-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget about all this modern-day Navy news &#8212; let&#8217;s take a trip back to the bad good old days, when American ships were tangling with Soviet ships all over the world, and you, as a naval person, needed a brief on just what we were up against. This is &#8220;Soviet Sea Power Today,&#8221; another classic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of British seapower, cont&#8217;d.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/08/the-end-of-british-seapower-contd/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/08/the-end-of-british-seapower-contd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Could the entire Royal Navy shrink to a force smaller than the U.S. Navy&#8217;s ship-population of Norfolk, Va.? That&#8217;s the warning coming this week from New Austerity Britain, where the navy brass has offered to &#8220;mortgage everything&#8221; in order to save its beloved pair of Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers: The Royal Navy fleet could consist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monks, arriving &#8212; and blessing</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/07/monks-arriving-and-blessing/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/07/monks-arriving-and-blessing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you think &#8220;Buddhist monk,&#8221; your first mental picture probably isn&#8217;t of someone who&#8217;d be into persistent, credible, sustained combat power from the sea delivered by 4.5 acres of sovereign U.S. real estate anywhere in the world without a permission slip. And yet, by all appearances, the monks who came aboard the carrier George Washington [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve come a long way, female service members</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/07/youve-come-a-long-way-female-service-members/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/07/youve-come-a-long-way-female-service-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. Ann Dunwoody, commanding general of Army Materiel Command; and National Defense University president Vice Adm. Ann Rondeau all appeared with CNN anchor Kyra Phillips this week in Washington to talk about the advances that women have made in the military services. For example, Dunwoody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Simpson barfed in Truman visit</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/06/report-simpson-barfed-in-truman-visit/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/06/report-simpson-barfed-in-truman-visit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This weird story just got weirder: Acne treatment spokeswoman Jessica Simpson only performed one song during her visit to the carrier Harry S. Truman, celebrity magazine Us Weekly reports, because she had to stop and throw up after eating on the mess decks with sailors. Potential causes include questionable choices from before her visit, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The flag officer billet even SecNav couldn&#8217;t create</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/06/the-flag-officer-billet-even-secnav/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/06/the-flag-officer-billet-even-secnav/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wherever he goes, whether making speeches on beautiful Treasure Island, or meeting with high-powered Belgian defense officials, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus doesn&#8217;t mind letting people know that he comes from a place called Mississippi. In fact, one of the colleges he&#8217;s attended also is located there, a school called &#8220;Old Mississippi,&#8221; which he also is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look inside the secret ship</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/06/a-look-inside-the-secret-ship/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/06/a-look-inside-the-secret-ship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science and technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who knows what mysteries lie inside the aluminum skin of the Navy&#8217;s one-of-a-kind, experimental catamaran, the Sea Fighter? Who can say what kind of advanced, high-speed equipment they&#8217;ve got on that thing, or what undocumented capabilities are built into the ship? Soon, you will. Our senior colleagues Mark D. Faram and Christopher P. Cavas &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A surreal day at sea</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/05/a-surreal-day-at-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/05/a-surreal-day-at-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All right: You&#8217;re a sailor aboard a mighty 95,000-ton nuclear-powered warship in the dangerous waters of the Middle East, launching and recovering jets flying combat missions over Afghanistan. Then &#8220;Private Valentine&#8221; star Jessica Simpson shows up, with her blinding Chiclet teeth and her is-she-really-all-dumb-or-is-that-an-act routine, and what does everyone start doing? Singing Christmas music, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cyber-troops of tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/04/the-cyber-troops-of-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/04/the-cyber-troops-of-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personnel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a challenge for today&#8217;s high-tech, super-joint Navy: How do you attract a cadre of &#8212; let&#8217;s be honest here &#8212; nerdy, perhaps less-martial computer experts that will stick around to pay back the time and money required to train them in the arcane cyber-disciplines that none of us understand? A 1980s-style movie montage immediately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whither Sully?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/01/wither-sully/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/01/wither-sully/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our green-side friends at Battle Rattle have posted a hilarious video of Marine officers doing exactly what the legal disclaimer at the beginning of &#8220;Jackass&#8221; says not to do &#8212; make their own version of &#8220;Jackass.&#8221; Definitely worth a look. It raised a question we&#8217;ve been struggling to answer for years: What ever happened to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What price tunes?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/30/what-price-tunes/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/30/what-price-tunes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Morale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a story that came on in legions of Priuses and Volvos yesterday as they inched through traffic back to tastefully decorated, environmentally conscious homes, and it bears revisiting: National Public Radio&#8217;s Robert Siegel pitted a grand old grouch of Washington, WaPo institution Walter Pincus, against Marine Col. Michael Colburn, director of the Marine Corps&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The warbird flexes its claws</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/29/the-warbird-flexes-its-claws/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/29/the-warbird-flexes-its-claws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you want the straight dope these days on what&#8217;s going on with the Navy&#8217;s newest and most unusual ship, you need to bring up its Facebook page. The littoral combat ship Independence has done its first refueling at sea, fired its main gun for the first time, and who knows what else, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bedbugs? Gross!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/29/bedbugs-gross/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/29/bedbugs-gross/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This whole bedbug thing&#8230; blargh&#8230; it&#8217;s disgusting. Everywhere you turn these days, it&#8217;s bedbugs this, bedbugs that, bedbugs here, bedbugs there &#8212; I thought I&#8217;d find refuge this morning here in the Cubicle of Excellence, but what did I discover instead? A bedbug awareness and mitigation campaign announced this week by Navy Region Southeast, launched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the Navy close the flying boat gap?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/can-the-navy-close-the-flying-boat-gap/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/can-the-navy-close-the-flying-boat-gap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Middle East]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Zounds! That dastardly Chief Commander of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Mohammad Ali Jafari &#8212; he&#8217;s done it again! First he built a navy with 100 vessels for every one U.S. warship, then he built an indefatigable 60-knot attack craft and now, worst of all, he&#8217;s fielding entire squadrons of flying boats! That&#8217;s right: If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LCS joins the sonar club</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/lcs-joins-the-sonar-club/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/lcs-joins-the-sonar-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science and technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you no doubt remember from your March 15 edition of Navy Times, the Navy has been on the hunt for a variable depth sonar to field aboard the littoral combat ship. As you&#8217;re about to learn when you click here, now it has found one. Just one, for now, according to Defense News; Euro-defense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underway (so to speak) on wave power</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/underway-so-to-speak-on-wave-power/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/underway-so-to-speak-on-wave-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The greenside]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So maybe this doesn&#8217;t carry the same kind of epochal importance as the Nautilus&#8217; famous message, but Navy officials are proud nonetheless: Engineers have hooked up a wave-power buoy to the electrical grid at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, meaning that a portion of the juice now running the barbershop clippers and soft drink machines out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASW has never been so adorable</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/asw-has-never-been-so-adorable/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/asw-has-never-been-so-adorable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We kill people, but we have to be nice about it&#8221; &#8212; so goes a U.S. military saying I&#8217;ve heard from Norfolk, Va. to Kabul. But our American troops are amateurs compared to the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, which has topped even its own impish cartoon mascot, Prince Pickles, with the heartwarming family day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All the president&#8217;s suds: Faram&#8217;s bath in the Iowa&#8217;s tub</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/27/all-the-presidents-suds/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/27/all-the-presidents-suds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We got to talking about the battleship Iowa this morning in our weekly staff meeting here at the Center of Excellence, and I mentioned that, among the ship&#8217;s other historic qualities, it&#8217;s the only U.S. warship in history with its own bathtub &#8212; installed to accommodate President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he rode the ship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaplan: America doomed</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/27/kaplan-america-doomed/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/27/kaplan-america-doomed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If big-dog world-affairs analyst Robert Kaplan is saying it, it means this thing is for real: Game over. That&#8217;s it. We had a good 234 years, but let&#8217;s face it, we Americans just can&#8217;t keep going anymore &#8212; not when China&#8217;s unstoppable economy and its burgeoning seapower mean that its influence is spreading across this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Television with stopping power</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/24/television-with-stopping-power/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/24/television-with-stopping-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ordnance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our senior Marine Corps Times colleague Gina Cavallaro, author of the hot new book &#8220;Sniper: American Single-Shot Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan,&#8221; scored a highly coveted guest spot on Washington&#8217;s top weekly defense news TV show, &#8220;This Week in Defense News.&#8221; You&#8217;ll be able to see her Sunday morning at 11 a.m. here in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine trouble, module madness and positive thinking</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/24/turbine-trouble-module-madness-and-positive-thinking/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/24/turbine-trouble-module-madness-and-positive-thinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The littoral combat ship Freedom broke one of its main engines this month, our senior colleague Christopher P. Cavas reports, but the Navy is turning its frown upside down and using this as an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to excellence. (Or as they say at Naval Sea Systems Command: &#8220;Enabling a more potent force [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join the Navy, get a free Caribbean cruise*</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/23/join-the-navy-get-a-free-caribbean-cruise/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/23/join-the-navy-get-a-free-caribbean-cruise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gator Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MC2 Jonathen Davis got the tough assignment of photographing his shipmates when they all went for a dip in the warm, blue waters of the Caribbean this week, as the amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima paused off the coast of Nicaragua for a swim call. That looks really pleasant. *Your &#8220;cruise&#8221; will not actually be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making it look easy takes a lot of hard work</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/23/making-it-look-easy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/23/making-it-look-easy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Navy photographers have a cool, albeit difficult job. Quick personal anecdote: Earlier this month, I got the chance to shoot photos of Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets launching from the bow catapults aboard the carrier Enterprise in the Atlantic Ocean. Real photographer Sheila Vemmer and I stood &#8212; or, rather, kind of tried to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did a SEAL submarine McChrystal?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/23/did-a-seal-submarine-mcchrystal/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/23/did-a-seal-submarine-mcchrystal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEALs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Pentagon probe has cleared retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his former senior aides of having uttered the ungentlemanly remarks that brought down his career, reports say. So who did make them, or at least some of them? A Navy SEAL officer, according to the New York Times: The Army review has been turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mission of Mercy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/22/mission-of-mercy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/22/mission-of-mercy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The hospital ship Mercy is back in San Diego this week after a humanitarian cruise in the Pacific, according to an announcement from Military Sealift Command, which means a fresh shipment of fun facts about this aspect of global good-doing, courtesy of MSC spokeswoman Laura Seal: Patients treated: 103,242. Pairs of eyeglasses and sunglasses distributed: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New desktop wallpaper: Carrier edition</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/21/new-desktop-wallpaper-carrier-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/21/new-desktop-wallpaper-carrier-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even if all these oft-discussed spending cuts do happen, your tax dollars still will buy you a lot &#8212; like outstanding images to use as wallpaper for your computer desktop. If you want the full, &#8220;its power is unlimited&#8221; look, click the shot above of the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group in the beautiful blue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s nothing else she can say</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/21/theres-nothing-else-she-can-say/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/21/theres-nothing-else-she-can-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No question that being an international art-pop phenom brings in a lot of money, but apparently not enough for Lady Gaga to order her own destroyer from Bath Iron Works. Despite Gaga&#8217;s rally in Portland this week, Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she&#8217;s leaning against permitting a repeal of the ban on open military service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incurable smallness</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/20/incurable-smallness/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/20/incurable-smallness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why does the Navy hate small ships? It says it needs them &#8212; in glossy report after glossy report, the top leaders of the fleet say the Navy needs to operate in shallow water, close to shore, yadda yadda yadda. But what does it do? Decommissions an entire class of coastal minehunters; marginalizes the surviving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations, chief</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/20/congratulations-chief/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/20/congratulations-chief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chiefs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First came the chief&#8217;s list, and now the inevitable follow-up: Tons of photos of new chiefs pinning on their anchors and donning their combination covers for the first time. It can be an emotional experience, as Chief Information Systems Technician Joseph Valencia shows in this outstanding shot by MC2 James Evans. More here, here, here, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life support</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/20/life-support/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/20/life-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The amphibious transport dock San Antonio sits idle in Norfolk, Va. because of problems that began years ago in the builder&#8217;s yard at Avondale, La. Its sibling, New Orleans, was delivered incomplete and ruled &#8220;degraded&#8221; by the Board of Inspection and Survey; members of its crew told Navy Times horror stories about weekends and holidays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian hospitality</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/17/russian-hospitality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re still trying to get more information about the frigate Taylor&#8217;s reported close encounters with Russian navy aircraft last weekend, but there&#8217;s one thing that&#8217;s already quite clear: these Russians have some funny ideas about hospitality. You invite an American warship to help you commemorate the end of the bloodiest war in human history, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The mod squad</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/16/the-mod-squad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the crew of the destroyer John Paul Jones posing last week with their ship in dry dock, before it was floated back out into San Diego Bay. Although a couple of cruisers, including Bunker Hill, have undergone the mid-life modernization treatment, JPJ is one of the first destroyers to have it done. The ship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new normal seems awfully familiar</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/15/the-new-normal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been running at a full sprint, metaphorically speaking, to try to keep ahead of the 535-headed monster known as America&#8217;s legislative branch. He has been tossing scraps of meat over his shoulder to try to slow it down: command closures, efficiency efforts and tough talk about the profligate spending in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s&#8230; unusual</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/14/thats-unusual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The greenside]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marine Cpl. Brice Millier helped a Guatemalan patient with her cranial last week before flying her out to the amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima for surgery. Notice anything else&#8230; interesting&#8230; about this photo? The answer is after the jump. Check out that bootleg Calvin decal &#8212; this guy apparently hates the MV-22 Osprey! I&#8217;ve seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So long, little shipmate</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/14/so-long-little-shipmate/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/14/so-long-little-shipmate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engineman Fireman Chad Valenti said goodbye to his son and wife on Saturday before his ship, the cruiser Cape St. George, sailed from San Diego on a deployment with the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group.]]></description>
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		<title>Turn back the clock: An LCS for Saudi Arabia?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/14/turn-back-the-clock-an-lcs-for-saudi-arabia/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/14/turn-back-the-clock-an-lcs-for-saudi-arabia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Very little seems new about the reports this week on the Pentagon seeking congressional approval for $60 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia &#8212; the deal has been in the works for awhile and, even way back in 2007, its naval implications caused a lot of blog chatter. In those days, the naval bloggers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portland gets cold feet</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/14/portland-gets-cold-feet/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/14/portland-gets-cold-feet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are dark times for the world of naval museum ships: Plans to make the retired carriers Ranger and Saratoga into waterfront attractions seem to be going nowhere; Adm. George Dewey&#8217;s flagship, the cruiser Olympia, is set to close in just a few weeks; and now the latest bid to set up the ex-John F. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The long war against Testudo</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/13/the-long-war-against-testudo/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/13/the-long-war-against-testudo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Could the Naval Academy Midshipmen add yet another yearly football nemesis? Maryland Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger, a member of the school&#8217;s Board of Visitors, asked Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk at a meeting on Monday about whether he&#8217;d be open to a Navy-Maryland showdown every year, as opposed to today&#8217;s once-every-couple-of-years schedule. &#8220;There&#8217;s a couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sonorous radar</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/13/the-sonorous-radar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE ENTERPRISE &#8212; As the ship made its way toward the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel on its way into Norfolk last week, there were two noises on the flight deck. One came from a moderate wind over the bow, and the other sounded like a combination whale song and robot serenade: ZzzzzzaaaaaaAAAAAAAAzzzzzzz &#8212; CHEEP! [...]]]></description>
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