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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Blogs</title>
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		<title>CO vs. sailor&#8217;s mother</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/17/co-vs-sailors-mother/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/17/co-vs-sailors-mother/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fight is between blogger and Navy Mom Mary Brotherton and Capt. Brian &#8220;Lex&#8221; Luther, commanding officer of the carrier George H.W. Bush, a ship with ongoing commode problems. Brotherton has a blow-by-blow account of the head troubles on the carrier, complete with accounts from her son, a sailor onboard. It&#8217;s pretty thorough and includes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom fades from gray to black</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/13/freedom-fades-from-gray-to-black/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s wrong with this picture? Freedom, the first littoral combat ship, has been in service for only two and a half years. But it’s lost that new ship shine.  Exhaust blackens the superstructure and the hull in this photo, taken June 7 while Freedom landed a helicopter as part of a joint maritime exercise. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firing Honors, pro and con, Week 2</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/10/firing-honors-pro-and-con-week-2/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/10/firing-honors-pro-and-con-week-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adm. John Harvey learned about the controversial, four-year-old shipboard videos co-produced by Capt. Owen Honors on Dec. 31 &#8212; the day before they were published for the first time outside the skin of the carrier Enterprise &#8212; and &#8220;immediately ordered an investigation,&#8221; he says in a Jan. 7 post on his command blog. Harvey also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gobsmacked</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/12/06/gobsmacked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those with a particularly British cultural literacy know the meaning of this great slang term, but for the rest of us (including yours truly), &#8220;gobsmacked&#8221; means &#8220;utterly astounded.&#8221; It also describes the reaction of Yeoman 2nd Class (SW) Lucien Gauthier, whose post to a U.S. Naval Institute blog recounts his amazement that a four-star fleet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Then start screaming</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/26/then-start-screaming/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/26/then-start-screaming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not a Halloween post &#8212; although Slide No. 4 in the Naval Safety Center&#8217;s &#8220;Signs of the Times&#8221; Vol. 6 contains elements of a good ol&#8217;, cheezy horror flick: Revenge of the Crocodilians! The slide show (http://safetycenter.navy.mil/ &#8212; midpage, &#8220;Signs of the Times #6, a PowerPoint doc) is a collection of similarly bad yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming a brother blog</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/25/welcoming-a-brother-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For you loyal Scoop Deck followers who feel the need to get muddy and fight the occasional land war, or if you just want to see what fun awaits you during your upcoming IA tour, Army Times has launched a new staff blog: Outside the Wire. Here&#8217;s the mission, according to alpha-blogger and friend of [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6579</guid>
		<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>A golden age for naval blogging</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/02/a-golden-age-for-naval-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Galrahn made an interesting observation in a Twitter update this morning: There are 11 blog posts included in Thursday&#8217;s edition of Chinfo Clips, the indispensable aggregation of Navy news stories distributed every day by the quiet professionals in the office of the Chief of Information, or &#8220;Chinfo.&#8221; Eleven blog posts is a record, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The invasion force</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/06/the-invasion-force/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strikegroupsploitation! Only this time, it&#8217;s amphibious-ready-groupsploitation, aka ARGsploitation! A rumor that has apparently been simmering for weeks in the Patchouli-scented Baja hoodie corner of the Web burst into the mainstream this week: Huffington Post columnist Nikolas Kozloff warns that &#8220;a massive flotilla&#8221; of &#8220;46 warships&#8221; and &#8220;7,000 Marines&#8221; is bound for tiny Costa Rica, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check out our new hall of shame</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/29/check-out-our-new-hall-of-shame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our readers just can&#8217;t get enough stories about fakers &#8212; these guys you see nowadays who claim they received two Medals of Honor, three Silver Stars, eight Purple Hearts, Pink Hearts, Orange Stars, Yellow Moons, Green Clovers, Blue Diamonds, and Purple Horseshoes. One man claimed he survived the bombing of the destroyer Cole; another gave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cult of China&#8217;s carrier-killer</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/20/the-cult-of-chinas-carrier-killer/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/20/the-cult-of-chinas-carrier-killer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the same way that disaster-flick auteur Roland Emmerich just cannot see enough world landmarks be destroyed, so too are there a few hard-core people out there who cannot purge their visions of an American aircraft carrier being sunk. Author Patrick Robinson vaporized his &#8220;USS Thomas Jefferson&#8221; in a nuclear strike; director Michael Bay had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;SNOOZEPAC&#8217; blow-back</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/20/snoozepac-blow-back/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/20/snoozepac-blow-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This &#8216;SNOOZEPAC&#8217; situation has erupted into a full-blown mil-blogging scandal, the biggest online tempest since Michael Yon revealed the location of the White House &#8212; or whatever that whole dust-up was about &#8211;  now that my distinguished colleague Dan Lamothe of Marine Corps Times has gotten into the act. Media blogs Romenesko and Media Matters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Truman &#8220;armada:&#8221; Arglebargle or fooferaw?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/21/the-truman-armada-arglebargle-or-fooferaw/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/21/the-truman-armada-arglebargle-or-fooferaw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5443</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Inside the family, we reporters have a shorthand to describe kinds of stories that tend to reoccur with the same basic features: An &#8220;on the one hand, on the other hand&#8221; analysis is a thumb-sucker; a minute-by-minute retelling is a tick-tock; a piece about the latest amazing technology is a gee-whiz story. But here&#8217;s one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scoop Deck&#8217;s birthday BOOKEX</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/01/scoop-decks-birthday-bookex/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/01/scoop-decks-birthday-bookex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a reminder: June marks Scoop Deck&#8217;s first birthday, and to mark the event we&#8217;re giving away books all month. To get a chance to win, all you have to do is post an approved comment. Click here for the full details. This sticky post will stay at the top of the page for awhile; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now hear this: Read Scoop Deck, win free books</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/01/now-hear-this-read-scoop-deck-win-free-books/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/01/now-hear-this-read-scoop-deck-win-free-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Comic: Scoop Deck. All art: NavHistHerCom That&#8217;s good gouge. Find out more after the jump. Scoop Deck turns one year old today. To mark the occasion we want to give back to you, our readers, who have kept us going all these 738 posts. But blog entries are usually pretty short, so to make sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iCommandant disappears&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/28/icommandant-disappears/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/28/icommandant-disappears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 20:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you didn&#8217;t notice as you were busily preparing for the long Memorial Day weekend, the Coast Guard website underwent a makeover after Adm. Robert Papp became the commandant May 25. Papp immediately set about making changes, including upending the social media blogs. There will be no more iCommandant blog or commandant&#8217;s Facebook page &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hangin&#8217; with Dr. Hooper</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/17/hangin-with-dr-hooper/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/17/hangin-with-dr-hooper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 18:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After years of blogging anonymously at Defense Springboard, San Francisco national security strategist Craig Hooper broke cover last winter and launched a new site with his real name and smiling photo right at the top. Scoop Deck caught up with Hooper for a discussion about the mil-blogosphere, dropping cover, and why the left needs to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy leadership&#8217;s official blog cleared to engage</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/navy-blog-cleared-to-engage/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/navy-blog-cleared-to-engage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes things happen that you never thought you&#8217;d see in your lifetime &#8212; Deep Throat&#8217;s identity revealed; Fidel Castro out of power (effectively) and now, an official, no-foolin&#8217;, Big Navy blog. Longtime Scoop Deck readers may remember that we told you about Navy Live, as it&#8217;s called, not long after the Deck itself was first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just one text and you could be next</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/14/just-one-text-and-you-could-be-next/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/14/just-one-text-and-you-could-be-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From our colleagues in the Emerald Isle comes a cautionary tale for these strange times when the young people have their Inter-Webs and their Twit-Tubes and their Face-Space and such &#8212; an Irish sailor is in legal trouble for &#8220;disclosing the whereabouts of his vessel to his girlfriend by text,&#8221; reports the Irish Times. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The gator named for Murtha</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/14/the-gator-named-for-murtha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has chosen the name &#8220;John P. Murtha&#8221; for the tenth San Antonio-class gator, heretofore only known as LPD 26, and the decision has caused a splash online. Not only does the name break with the convention of naming ships in the class for cities, there&#8217;s the matter of the namesake himself. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with the small boat threat</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/13/dealing-with-the-small-boat-threat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many loose threads across the Internet from the past couple of days about the infamous Small Boat Threat, which has been a part of fleet planning since the days of E-Boats and long before. On Monday, an article in Taiwan&#8217;s Straits Times described a new Taiwanese fast-attack craft designed as a &#8220;carrier killer,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A whole blog devoted to naval history</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/25/a-whole-blog-devoted-to-naval-history/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/25/a-whole-blog-devoted-to-naval-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even if you normally take no interest in history, you can&#8217;t get close to the Navy without at least getting a little on you. From the vocabulary (&#8220;deck&#8221; for &#8220;floor;&#8221; &#8220;cover&#8221; for &#8220;hat;&#8221; &#8220;FOD walkdown&#8221; for &#8220;fun&#8221;) to the names of ships, to the ships themselves, the sea service is steeped in tradition. Now, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;d you do in the Navy today? Answer carefully</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/18/whatd-you-do-in-the-navy-today-answer-carefully/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/18/whatd-you-do-in-the-navy-today-answer-carefully/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a slow start, the Navy is all about social networking these days &#8212; top decision-makers are on Twitter; you can check out videos on YouTube in which sailors walk really fast, then normal, then really slow; and, of course, the fleet is on Facebook. And as part of its outreach to the &#8216;Bookoisie, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SecNav becomes a chief, drives a YP, joins Twitter</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/11/secnav-becomes-a-chief-drives-a-yp-joins-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/11/secnav-becomes-a-chief-drives-a-yp-joins-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navy Secretary Ray Mabus is having a hectic week. He became an honorary chief petty officer &#8212; at the Naval Academy, of all places! &#8212; piloted one of the midshipmen&#8217;s beloved yard patrol craft and today is scheduled to appear with Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead before the House Appropriations Committee&#8217;s defense subcommittee. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy withdraws, posters advance</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/08/navy-withdraws-posters-advance/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/08/navy-withdraws-posters-advance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for sailors and Marines to start coming home from the humanitarian mission in Haiti, the fleet&#8217;s photo illustration mavens have rolled out a series of posters that you can start to look for on a bulkhead near you. There&#8217;s another here, here, here and here. These kinds of images are getting more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SecNav endorses Adm. Ackbar</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/03/secnav-endorses-adm-ackbar/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/03/secnav-endorses-adm-ackbar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You won&#8217;t find Admiral Ackbar&#8217;s name on the U.S. Navy&#8217;s official roll of flag officers, but a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, he oversaw one of the greatest victories in the history of combat. Ackbar commanded the armada of the Rebel Alliance in its battle against the Imperial starfleet and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The budget and its discontents, vol. 2: Are we the Soviets?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/03/the-budget-and-its-discontents-vol-2-are-we-the-soviets/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/03/the-budget-and-its-discontents-vol-2-are-we-the-soviets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The drumbeat continues online for including the Pentagon &#8212; with Navy programs inevitably singled out &#8212; in the federal government&#8217;s proposed spending freeze over the next three years. By continuing to increase the budget for the Defense Department even as the rest of the country feels the squeeze, the U.S. government is as bad as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;prison ship&#8217; off the Haitian coast</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/28/the-prison-ship-off-the-haitian-coast/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/28/the-prison-ship-off-the-haitian-coast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Y&#8217;never know what&#8217;s going to pop up in a Google Alert these days: From the risible-and-disappointing file comes this gem about the amphibious assault ship Bataan &#8212; whose aircraft, crew and landing craft have been working nonstop helping with the humanitarian crisis in Haiti &#8212; conducting secret &#8220;experiments&#8221; on the &#8220;prisoners&#8221; kept aboard. Bataan actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why exempt the Navy from a spending freeze?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/28/why-exempt-the-navy-from-a-spending-freeze/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/28/why-exempt-the-navy-from-a-spending-freeze/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3574</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In his speech last night, President Obama called for a spending freeze for most of the federal government, starting next year. He made exceptions for entitlement programs and &#8220;national defense&#8221; spending, but this has led many bloggers online to ask: Why? How come the Pentagon &#8212; and specifically, the Navy &#8212; gets to keep spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need to sharpen that killing edge? Try video games!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/27/need-to-sharpen-that-killing-edge-try-video-games/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/27/need-to-sharpen-that-killing-edge-try-video-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All you oldsters just never understood, did you &#8212; with your &#8220;fresh air,&#8221; &#8220;outdoor activities&#8221; and your &#8220;socializing&#8221; and such &#8212; the younger generation hasn&#8217;t been wasting time inside playing &#8220;Halo&#8221; all these years. It&#8217;s been developing itself into a legion of stone-cold killers! Such is the conclusion from an Office of Naval Research scientist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep track of the Navy, Marine, Coast Guard response</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/18/keep-track-of-the-navy-marine-coast-guard-response/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/18/keep-track-of-the-navy-marine-coast-guard-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The scale of the blue, green and white-with-red-stripe response to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti is huge &#8212; we&#8217;re maintaining a full list of all the units on station or en route that you can check out here, which we&#8217;ll be updating every time we get new information. How is your ship or unit involved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ready to go</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/15/ready-to-go/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/15/ready-to-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sailors up and down the East Coast are contributing to the Navy&#8217;s mission of helping out in Haiti, whether they&#8217;re checking jet engines on the helicopters that&#8217;ll be indispensable in distributing food and water, or bringing LCACs into well decks or loading up the invaluable Red Bull. Navy Times will keep you up on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As the bloggers go rolling along</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/06/as-the-bloggers-go-rolling-along/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/06/as-the-bloggers-go-rolling-along/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More of our shipmates here at the Center of Excellence are joining the high-pressure, white-knuckle world of collective blogging &#8212; Army Times reporters are weapons-free for the debut of Free-Fire Zone, a blog dedicated to ground-pounditry, tank-drivin&#8217;, gun-shootin&#8217;, hua-saying and everything else that soldiers do. Check it out here.]]></description>
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		<title>Aussie women too hot, &#8220;Marine&#8221; complains</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/06/aussie-women-too-hot-marine-complains/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/06/aussie-women-too-hot-marine-complains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man identifying himself as a Marine officer &#8212; who could very well have been attached to a visiting Navy amphibious ship &#8212; has caused an international controversy: Young women in the the city of Darwin, in Australia&#8217;s Northern Territory, attire themselves too immodestly, declared &#8220;Capt. John Campbell&#8221; in a letter to the local newspaper. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For sale: Custom pirate-fightin&#8217; vessel. Never used.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/04/for-sale-custom-pirate-fightin-vessel-never-used/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/04/for-sale-custom-pirate-fightin-vessel-never-used/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tired of driving a desk? Want to be your own boss? Do you yearn for dangerous, high-seas adventure in a legal gray zone? With not one, but two developments reported around the Internet, today is your lucky day. Item one: The private-security firm formerly known as Blackwater is selling its pirate-huntin&#8217; ship, the McArthur.  That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy new year from the Deck</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/31/happy-new-year-from-the-deck/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/31/happy-new-year-from-the-deck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the ancient tradition of maritime lore Here’s a post that Scoop Deck has not attempted before To welcome the new year &#8212; in addition to grog &#8211; Is required a special entry in a ship’s daily log. For instance: While landsmen one winter all spent the night frozen Here’s the entry they filed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lest we forget &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/31/lest-we-forget/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/31/lest-we-forget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Joel &#8220;Bubblehead&#8221; Kennedy, who reminds us of the 50th anniversary of the commissioning of USS George Washington (SSBN 598), the first ballistic missile submarine. What must it have been like to be there July 20 1960, when the skipper sent a burner 1,100 miles downrange, then sent President Eisenhower the message: POLARIS &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The terror threat at sea</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/31/the-terror-threat-at-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/31/the-terror-threat-at-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of a sudden, there is lots of discussion online about terrorist threats to U.S. warships in the Middle East. Galrahn has an excellent post today about a new warning for ships,  including this money quote: &#8220;We assess a direct, grave threat, by Al Qaeda, against U.S. Navy warships and U.S.-flagged vessels. Moreover, if U.S.-flagged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A 4th or 5th Zumwalt? Defense pundit says&#8230; maybe</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/30/a-4th-or-5th-zumwalt-defense-pundit-says-maybe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ubiquitous defense pundit Loren Thompson hasn&#8217;t given us blue-side types very much to chew on since he and his compatriots launched their Early Warning blog last summer, vowing it wouldn&#8217;t contain all the &#8220;tendentious nonsense&#8221; found in so many other mil-blogs. Now, what was it that veteran mil-blogger ol&#8217; Phib said about that? Oh, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zeal does not rest, but it does Tweet</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/30/zeal-does-not-rest-but-it-does-tweet/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/30/zeal-does-not-rest-but-it-does-tweet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many great Twitter feeds from commands throughout the fleet &#8212; for example, just pulling a few random samples from the Twitter Feed of Excellence, you can follow the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard and the carriers Harry S. Truman and Nimitz. Tweeting, however, is apparently something new over in the Royal Navy, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A rare year-end &#8220;honor&#8221; for LCS 1 and 2</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/29/a-rare-year-end-honor-for-lcs-1-and-2/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/29/a-rare-year-end-honor-for-lcs-1-and-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you love ships but you don&#8217;t follow the indispensable Ugly Ships blog, you&#8217;re missing out on some of the world&#8217;s most&#8230; ah&#8230; distinctive&#8230; vessels, including weird work boats, garish cruise ships and, our obvious favorite, warships. A couple of familiar ones have been &#8220;honored&#8221; on Ugly Ships&#8217; year-end list of most-clicked links: the littoral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MCPOCG sends safety message</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/23/mcpog-sends-safety-message/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/23/mcpog-sends-safety-message/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard is having a difficult December with two boating accidents &#8212; the latest on Sunday when a Coast Guard boat struck a recreational boat in San Diego and killed an 8-year-old boy. On Dec. 5, a Coast Guard boat collided with a commercial catamaran in Charleston Harbor, S.C., and two people were injured. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday warships</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/21/holiday-warships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you enjoy looking at photographs of cruisers and destroyers &#8212; one of Scoop Deck&#8217;s favorite pastimes &#8212; you might be interested in this photo-set on Naval Surface Forces&#8217; Facebook page, which shows the ships in this year&#8217;s &#8220;holiday lighting competition&#8221; at Naval Station San Diego. All the ships are dressed up with festive lights, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogs go silent to support a comrade</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/16/blogs-go-silent-to-support-a-comrade/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/16/blogs-go-silent-to-support-a-comrade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you get right down to it, there isn&#8217;t much bloggers can do except write what we think. You may think that&#8217;s not much (although tell that to Dan Rather) but whatever it is, it&#8217;s all we have. So when bloggers withhold posts, it&#8217;s like Procter &#38; Gamble withholding Tide, or Starbucks withholding coffee, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retire the nuke Tomahawk? It wouldn&#8217;t take much</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/14/retire-the-nuke-tomahawk-it-wouldnt-take-much/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/14/retire-the-nuke-tomahawk-it-wouldnt-take-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Galrahn at Information Dissemination comes a link to an intriguing post at ArmsControlWonk that advocates for the Navy to retire the nuclear Tomahawk land attack missile &#8212; known as the TLAM-N inside the Puzzle Palace &#8212; because it&#8217;s old and we don&#8217;t need &#8216;em anymore. Specifically, the nuclear variant of the missile doesn&#8217;t come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under-ice operations links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/11/under-ice-operations-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/11/under-ice-operations-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silent runnin&#8217;, enemy SSBN huntin&#8217;, upward-looking sonar pingin&#8217;, Ice Station Zebra findin&#8217;, &#8220;Nautilus 90-North&#8221; sendin&#8217; links, ordering you to surface the ship and for all hands to prepare to carry these headlines topside, onto the pack: PACOM commander Adm. Robert Willard says he thinks China will field its first aircraft carrier by 2015 &#8212; coincidentally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy asks for responses &#8212; and gets them</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/10/navy-asks-for-responses-and-gets-them/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/10/navy-asks-for-responses-and-gets-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So&#8217;ve you heard about these websites where you can connect with other people, sharing photos and stories and tacos and what-not? They&#8217;re calling it &#8220;social networking,&#8221; and it&#8217;s running on computers now; you can tell people 25 &#8220;interesting&#8221; things about yourself, post images of your friends from elementary school; or explain why you think the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy to take on alien bad guys in &#8220;Battleship&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/04/navy-takes-on-aliens/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/04/navy-takes-on-aliens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these dark times, what America really needs is an awesome Navy movie with lots of fleet action and battles and explosions and stuff &#8212; like &#8220;The Hunt For Red October&#8221; plus &#8220;Top Gun,&#8221;  and a little &#8220;Down Periscope&#8221; sprinkled on top, for the kids. Problem is, there&#8217;s nothing that promising on the horizon, especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell the Navy what you think online &#8212; immediately</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/01/tell-the-navy-what-you-think-online-immediately/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/01/tell-the-navy-what-you-think-online-immediately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck couldn&#8217;t help noticing a fresh new look over on the Navy&#8217;s official site, Navy.mil, while checking out this year&#8217;s holiday greeting from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead, his wife Ellen, and their dog, Clancy. The Navy seems to have used Roughead&#8217;s annual HOLIDEX message &#8212; in which he recommends conducting pleasant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying your own gear</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/01/buying-your-own-gear/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/01/buying-your-own-gear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navy Times heard from many sailors with stories about buying their own supplies and equipment out of pocket, and the correspondence hasn&#8217;t dried up since the story appeared in the newspaper. Now it&#8217;s online &#8212; check it out here &#8212; and readers are still telling us about this apparently common aspect of Navy life that [...]]]></description>
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