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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Ballistic missile defense</title>
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		<title>Home for Dad&#8217;s day</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/18/home-for-dads-day/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/18/home-for-dads-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The destroyer Stout came home to Norfolk Saturday following a Med cruise in support of theater security operations and ballistic missile deterrence &#8230; &#8230; and just in time for Father&#8217;s Day: Stout took part in the coalition strikes on Libyan forces that began in mid-March. Stout was the first ship on station and fired multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take that, Kim Jong-il</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/01/take-that-kim-jong-il/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese destroyer JS Kirishima shot down a medium-range ballistic missile during a joint exercise with the Navy. Read about it here.]]></description>
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		<title>Reporter&#8217;s Notebook: CNO @ Heritage Foundation</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/14/reporters-notebook-cno-heritage-foundation/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/14/reporters-notebook-cno-heritage-foundation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 15:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date: May 13, 2010 Location: Heritage Foundation, Washington D.C. Subj: CNO comments In a speech and response to questions offered at the Heritage Foundation Thursday, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead urged fiscal responsibility yet downplayed talk of further cuts to Navy ships and programs. He agreed with Defense Secretary Robert Gates&#8217; call for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When you care enough to send the very best</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/29/when-you-care-enough-to-send-the-very-best/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/29/when-you-care-enough-to-send-the-very-best/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it means absolutely nothing. Maybe it&#8217;s an unsubtle message: Of the vessels U.S. commanders sent in answer to South Korea&#8217;s request for help after their patrol ship Cheonan sank last week, three are Aegis warships and of those, two are ballistic missile defense-capable. Responding to the South Korean sinking are the BMD cruiser Shiloh; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuke deal implications for the Navy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/15/nuke-deal-implications-for-the-navy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/15/nuke-deal-implications-for-the-navy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our big-time colleagues at Defense News have a story that says the Kremlin and the White House could be getting close to a new strategic arms reduction deal, and that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could begin talks with her Russian counterparts as early as this week.  Here&#8217;s an interesting detail: The New York Times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pearl Harbor links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/10/pearl-harbor-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/10/pearl-harbor-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Warm, clear-sky, soft ocean breeze, lei-wearin&#8217;, delicious-cocktail-in-a-coconut-drinkin&#8217;, battleships Arizona and Missouri-visitin&#8217;, Hawaiian shirt-wearin&#8217; links, helping you say &#8220;aloha&#8221; to the latest updates out on the Web: Here&#8217;s a shocking bit of news: Russia is upset with the latest U.S. plans for ballistic missile defense of Europe. What&#8217;s next in this topsy-turvy world, a second debilitating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death knell for CG(X)</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/02/death-knell-for-cgx/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/02/death-knell-for-cgx/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the advanced next-generation cruiser known as CG(X) &#8212; we hardly knew ye. Sure, some people knew ye very well &#8212; 500 pages well, in the fabled analysis of alternatives that only appeared once a year, on fire, on the horizon off Ocracoke. But for the rest of us, this is as much of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When finite funds meet infinite needs</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/19/when-finite-funds-meet-infinite-needs/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/19/when-finite-funds-meet-infinite-needs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3441</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret the naval fleet has more gaps than O.J.&#8217;s alibi. The Navy is lacking surface vessels, especially amphibs. Submarine and aviation gaps are on the horizon. Even the carrier fleet will drop below requirements for at least three years beginning in 2012. Adding the crushing blow on this already sizable dog pile is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNA: Unicorns, leprechauns and the CG(X) AoA</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/12/unicorns-leprechauns-and-cgx/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/12/unicorns-leprechauns-and-cgx/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3346</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Within certain very narrow circles in Washington, it&#8217;s amazing how much influence is wielded by pieces of paper. The budget, the 30-year shipbuilding plan, the Quadrennial Defense Review, the Ballistic Missile Defense Review &#8212; although these would all sound to most Americans like a buncha nonsense (and they might not be wrong) the right documents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNA: Just how smart is Aegis BMD?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/12/sna-just-how-smart-is-aegis-bmd/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/12/sna-just-how-smart-is-aegis-bmd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3321</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Defense giant Lockheed Martin is giving a slew of briefings this morning at the Surface Navy Association&#8217;s annual symposium just outside Washington, and although it has been crowing about its products, officials didn&#8217;t want to say too much. After a presentation about the advanced new variants of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system, Scoop Deck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A U.S. commander &#8216;sinks&#8217; the George Washington</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/08/a-u-s-commander-sinks-the-george-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/08/a-u-s-commander-sinks-the-george-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2999</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Naval egg-heads inside the Beltway and anyplace else people know the term &#8220;pacing threat&#8221; have been noodling over an alternate-future-history piece in the recent edition of the Foreign Policy Research Institute&#8217;s magazine Orbis, in which a Navy scholar describes how the Chinese &#8220;sunk&#8221; the carrier George Washington. The piece, &#8220;How The United States Lost the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another new LCS mission &#8212; BMD picket?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/17/another-new-lcs-mission-bmd-picket/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/17/another-new-lcs-mission-bmd-picket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Galrahn and Phib discuss the latest news about the littoral combat ship Freedom&#8217;s upcoming deployment, one of our senior shipmates at Defense News has some other interesting LCS gouge: This week at the Dubai Air Show, Lockheed Martin is pitching a &#8220;Surface Combat Ship&#8221; to the navies of the Gulf states &#8212; a variant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Port visit links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/13/port-visit-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/13/port-visit-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Restricted maneuvering doctrine settin&#8217;, ATM cash-withdrawin&#8217;, rail mannin&#8217; links, eager to tie up, race down the brow and get into the bars town as quickly as possible: After a triumphant visit and commissioning in its namesake city, the amphibious transport dock New York, like so many other newcomers to the Big Apple, is taking refuge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The maritime strategy enters the terrible twos</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/20/the-maritime-strategy-enters-the-terrible-twos/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/20/the-maritime-strategy-enters-the-terrible-twos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The famed brown-shoe blogger SteeljawScribe &#8212; or as they&#8217;d say in Pittsburgh, &#8220;Stuhljawr-Scrub&#8221; &#8212; has reminded the Internet this week that we&#8217;ve reached the second anniversary of the unveiling of the maritime strategy (pdf), the document that was supposed to pave a clear road forward for the U.S. naval services and Coast Guard. Asks Steeljaw: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LCAC assault links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/30/lcac-assault-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/30/lcac-assault-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Air cushion inflatin&#8217;, M1A1 Abrams main battle tank loadin&#8217;, stern ramp lowerin&#8217;, high speed wave-skimmin&#8217; links, flying straight off the water and onto the beach to bring you these updates from across the Web: Break out the small arms, warm up the LRAD and tell BM1 to lower the small boat: It&#8217;s pirate season. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Brown&#8217;s SSBN situation</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/25/gordon-browns-ssbn-situation/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/25/gordon-browns-ssbn-situation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2323</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown&#8217;s support for eliminating one of the Royal Navy&#8217;s four Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarines isn&#8217;t just a British issue anymore &#8212; there are reports about it from all around the world, including here in the States. The latest one to catch our attention was this editorial in the Wall Street Journal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubts about the Navy&#8217;s Euro-BMD mission</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/21/doubts-about-the-navys-euro-bmd-mission/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/21/doubts-about-the-navys-euro-bmd-mission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are still many questions to be answered about the Navy&#8217;s new mission of providing two or three Aegis warships to protect Europe against missile attacks by 2011. And in the few days it has taken to process President Obama&#8217;s announcement that he was changing the U.S. missile defense plans, people have started asking them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From &#8216;greyhounds of the sea&#8217; to surface boomers?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/18/from-greyhounds-of-the-sea-to-surface-boomers/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/18/from-greyhounds-of-the-sea-to-surface-boomers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Navy&#8217;s cruisers and destroyers got a new mission this week after President Obama&#8217;s announcement about his changes to U.S. ballistic missile defense goals. Designed as multi-mission combatants with enough firepower to level a city or bring down an air force &#8212; at the same time &#8212; two or three of the Navy&#8217;s Aegis warships [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wayne E. Meyer: Sailor, innovator, &#8220;Dragnet&#8221; fan</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/wayne-e-meyer-sailor-innovator-dragnet-fan/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/wayne-e-meyer-sailor-innovator-dragnet-fan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2072</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck visited a destroyer not too long ago in the company of a surface warfare officer who&#8217;s been serving in the Pentagon for awhile, and who was rejuvenated, she proclaimed, by recharging her batteries from what she called &#8220;the power of Aegis.&#8221; The man who was instrumental in the creation of that power, retired [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1603</guid>
		<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>Port Royal returns (in October)</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/30/port-royal-returns-in-october/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/30/port-royal-returns-in-october/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engineers are almost finished with repairs to the cruiser Port Royal, the Navy announced Wednesday, and &#8212; at least according to the official statement &#8212; the damage wasn&#8217;t as bad as many people feared. After the ship went aground Feb. 5 on a coral reef off Honolulu Airport, Port Royal rolled and shook and shuddered [...]]]></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>What happened to Port Royal</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/08/what-happened-to-port-royal/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/08/what-happened-to-port-royal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now we know. Our colleagues at The Honolulu Advertiser have obtained the Navy&#8217;s safety investigation report into the Feb. 5 grounding of the cruiser Port Royal, which prompted the Navy to punish several sailors and will cost taxpayers millions of dollars in damage to the ship and the reef it struck. The story is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not to be flexed with</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/30/nots-to-be-flexed-with/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/30/nots-to-be-flexed-with/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1049</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  Very few things have brightened up our otherwise dreary Center of Excellence as much as when we received this copy of the DDG class squadron emblem. Reaching sublime heights of awesomeness, the logo depicts an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and its Aegis system, which, as every student of naval technology knows, is a giant, fire-breathing [...]]]></description>
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