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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Coast Guard</title>
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		<title>You never marched like this</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/21/you-never-marched-like-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how much you loved your sub and how well you can march, or the weird ideas that fermented in your brain after weeks underway without sunlight, you never, not once, thought of doing anything like the formations the West Virginia University Marching Band pulled off. The whole clip is good and worth a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elves in orange vests</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/29/elves-in-orange-vests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenn Rafael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9702</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The seagoing buoy tender Alder has a new mission: spreading holiday cheer. The cutter is carrying hundreds of trees to needy Chicago families as the city&#8217;s &#8220;Christmas ship.&#8221; On Monday, the cutter&#8217;s crew took on the holiday cargo in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The seagoing buoy tender/icebreaker Mackinaw normally does the honors. Its crew delivered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sneak peek of a CG-themed reality show</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/12/sneak-peek-of-a-cg-themed-reality-show/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/12/sneak-peek-of-a-cg-themed-reality-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Laster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We wrote in July about a new reality show featuring Coast Guardsmen from Air Station Kodiak, Alaska. The trailer for the Weather Channel show &#8211; which debuts Nov. 9 &#8211; is now online. Check out the trailer here: You can read more about the show &#8211; and learn about the Coasties featured on &#8220;Coast Guard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coast Guard makes it onto &#8220;Jeopardy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/30/coast-guard-makes-it-on-jeopardy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/30/coast-guard-makes-it-on-jeopardy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Laster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are into Coast Guard trivia and don&#8217;t mind answering in the form of a question, check out the &#8220;Jeopardy&#8221; Clue of the Day today. The question: &#8220;The Coast Guard looks out for the smuggling of drugs and people in this practice, from the Old French for &#8216;to forbid.&#8217;&#8221; If you want to know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for Irene</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/26/waiting-for-irene/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/26/waiting-for-irene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the outer bands of Hurricane Irene beginning to lash the southeastern coast of North Carolina, Coast Guard fliers and search-and-rescue personnel flew out of Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., this morning, and we&#8217;re in hurry-up-and-wait mode at the North Carolina Air National Guard Base, adjacent to Charlotte International Airport. Another C-130 crew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do the academies measure up?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/01/how-do-the-academies-measure-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Laster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8784</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Naval and Coast Guard academies — as you might expect — aren’t the first colleges to consider when you’re looking for a party school. But alongside ranking high as a “stone-cold sober” school in this year’s Princeton Review rankings, the two academies got high marks for accessible professors, low marijuana use and “running like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t drink and steer?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/02/dont-drink-and-steer/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/02/dont-drink-and-steer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7005</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone who watches television or looks at billboards has, at some point, been told how stupid it is to drink and drive. It&#8217;s one of those things you just know not to do. If driving a car is a bad idea after drinking, then driving a 600-foot freighter down Juan de Fuca Strait, near the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whales and speed don&#8217;t mix</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/21/whales-and-speed-dont-mix/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/21/whales-and-speed-dont-mix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard is trying to juggle traffic flow into San Francisco&#8217;s busy port and pressure from environmentalists about its impact on marine sanctuaries where mammals feed. San Francisco&#8217;s ABC affiliate reported earlier in the day that traffic is picking up into the Port of San Francisco and ships are zipping to and from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coast Guard is totally harshing my mellow, dude</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/20/coast-guard-is-totally-harshing-my-mellow-dude/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/20/coast-guard-is-totally-harshing-my-mellow-dude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard, by any measure, is a fairly busy bunch. The amount its 42,000-odd members accomplish with a budget just over $10 billion is worthy of note. Its latest accomplishment? The service says it seized approximately 1,000 pounds of marijuana (pot, hydro, righteous bush, reefer, buds) when a C-130 spotted a suspicious vessel about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh buoy, there goes $18,000</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/18/oh-buoy-there-goes-18000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ice is on the outs in the Arctic. As a result there is an enormous treasure-trove of previously undiscovered natural resources being made accessible  by the  receding ice. Now Russia, the U.S., Greenland and everybody in between who has an Arctic coastline is struggling for control of as much loot as possible. So, Arctic research has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Coast Guard cutter brings the pain &#8212; $80 million worth</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/25/a-coast-guard-cutter-brings-the-pain-80-million-worth/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/25/a-coast-guard-cutter-brings-the-pain-80-million-worth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6091</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What does $80 million worth of cocaine look like? That&#8217;s it, right there, along with crew members of the Coast Guard cutter Forward, who took it off the hands of five &#8220;fishermen&#8221; off the coast of Honduras on Aug 3. The Forward&#8217;s crew then transferred the dope and the suspected smugglers to the cutter Tahoma, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will new long-range narco-subs change the game?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/06/will-new-long-range-narco-subs-change-the-game/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/06/will-new-long-range-narco-subs-change-the-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, U.S. counter-drug authorities knew there were self-propelled semi-submersibles out there, ferrying drugs out of South America just under the wavetops &#8212; but they&#8217;d never seen one. Then, in 2006, it happened: The sighting and seizure of just such a vessel, appropriately nicknamed &#8220;Bigfoot,&#8221; which became the first of several. Next, drug enforcement officials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling in the auxiliary</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/23/calling-in-the-auxiliary/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/23/calling-in-the-auxiliary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the same day that Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp recognized the Coast Guard Auxiliary&#8217;s 71st birthday. the service also sent out an &#8220;all hands on deck&#8221; message requesting more of the volunteers to help with the containment of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Today, Papp thanked the auxiliary for its contributions, especially during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Coast Guard vice commandant gets new gig</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/18/former-coast-guard-vice-commandant-gets-new-gig/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/18/former-coast-guard-vice-commandant-gets-new-gig/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a week off, newly retired Coast Guard Vice Adm. David Pekoske landed a new gig. As of June 1, the former vice commandant is the executive vice president of A-T Solutions Inc., a counter-terrorism intelligence company in Vienna, Va. &#8220;I love it,&#8221; said Pekoske, who retired May 24. &#8220;It&#8217;s a company whose culture is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check out the beard</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/09/check-out-the-beard/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/09/check-out-the-beard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5349</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although this already has been taken off the Coast Guard&#8217;s home page, it deserves being immortalized on Scoop Deck. Here is a look at former commandant  Adm. Thad Allen through his nearly 40-year Coast Guard career.  Check out the beard.]]></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>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/21/seven-in-seven-6/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/21/seven-in-seven-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been another busy week for the Navy. Here are seven stories in seven minutes from the past seven days that are worthy of notice: 1. Defense Bill passes HASC. This bill has tons of important stuff – far too much to put in this blog. You can check Monday’s edition of Navy Times for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the ice on icebreakers</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/03/breaking-the-ice-on-icebreakers/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/03/breaking-the-ice-on-icebreakers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 16:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen has been making the case for  improved ships and equipment to enable the lifesaving service to better operate in the thawing Arctic. Now that he is only weeks away from retirement, he hinted Monday in a panel discussion at Sea Air Space that the Coast Guard, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/30/seven-in-seven-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Navy nabbed a lot of headlines again this week. Leading the way is news that subs are now officially open to women. In other career news, the active duty master chiefs list was released. The Coast Guard is holding its ground in the oil spill – and against critics. and the Army cancelled the Non-Line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See for yourself: UAV smuggler take-down</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/09/see-for-yourself-uav-smuggler-take-down/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/09/see-for-yourself-uav-smuggler-take-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You read about it here on the Deck, and now you can see it for yourself &#8212; hot off SIPRNET, here&#8217;s the raw video from the Fire Scout that spotted and tracked a suspected drug rendezvous in the Eastern Pacific last week. A few viewing notes: It&#8217;s a familiar FLIR small-boat show until about 3:33, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire Scout joins the war on drugs</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/08/fire-scout-joins-the-war-on-drugs/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/08/fire-scout-joins-the-war-on-drugs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, it&#8217;s not a computer-animated video embedded in a PowerPoint presentation &#8212; this thing actually happened: The frigate McInerney used one of its Fire Scout unmanned helicopters to spot some drug smugglers last week down in the Eastern Pacific. According to the Navy, the unmanned helo was buzzing around for some tests when it &#8220;acquired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enlisted heroes honored</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/enlisted-heroes-honored/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/enlisted-heroes-honored/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting turn has taken place in the naming of the new class of 154-foot fast response cutters. The first was supposed to be, Sentinel, and the second, Guardian, as previously reported in November when news broke about construction beginning at Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, La. After the passing of several well-known Coast Guard heroes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy vice</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/17/navy-vice/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/17/navy-vice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead seemed very pleased this morning when he told Senate lawmakers that the littoral combat ship Freedom has made three drug busts in the four weeks it&#8217;s been at sea down in the 4th Fleet area of operations. All told, Freedom&#8217;s crew of sailors and Coast Guardsmen have seized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commonwealth navies links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/12/commonwealth-navies-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/12/commonwealth-navies-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tea-drinkin&#8217;, &#8220;cheers&#8221;-sayin&#8217;, Bovril-eatin&#8217;, short pants-wearin&#8217;, pirate-fightin&#8217;, boomerang throwin&#8217; links, helping you say &#8216;g&#8217;day&#8217; to naval developments around the world: The Royal Navy doesn&#8217;t need carriers after all, a former Defence Staff chief said this week, and instead it should build more small ships to grow its fleet. England&#8217;s Prince Philip, Duke of Edinborough &#8212; Queen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome home</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/02/welcome-home/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/02/welcome-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This must be a welcome sight for Coast Guardsmen everywhere: A new ship! Check out the second-in-class national security cutter Waesche, which is scheduled to be commissioned in May.]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska Ranger rescue documentary airs on Discovery</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/02/alaska-ranger-rescue-documentary-airs-on-discovery/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/02/alaska-ranger-rescue-documentary-airs-on-discovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Coast Guardsman from Air Station Barbers Point will be featured in the cable documentary, &#8220;Mayday! Bering Sea,&#8221; which is scheduled to air 9 p.m. and 12 a.m. EST (6 p.m. and 9 p.m. PST) Wednesday on the Discovery Channel, according to the Coast Guard. The documentary recounts the story of the Alaska Ranger, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blast from the past: the National Patrol Frigate</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/24/blast-from-the-past-the-national-patrol-frigate/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/24/blast-from-the-past-the-national-patrol-frigate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the wild, crazy year called 2008? The presidential election was going full swing &#8230; Kanye West asked a befuddled America how it could be so heartless &#8230; and in certain elite circles, the big debate was littoral combat ship v. national security cutter. Back in those golden, by-gone days, the hip crowd was saying, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;One sniper shot at a time&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/24/one-sniper-shot-at-a-time/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/24/one-sniper-shot-at-a-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3882</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard invited the media to attend an all-hands sneak preview in Jacksonville, Fla., of the debut of &#8220;Modern Sniper&#8221; on the Military Channel. Although Scoop Deck could not be there, we will be watching as the cable channel profiles the Jacksonville-based Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron at 9 p.m. (8 p.m. central) on Thursday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The miracle of cell phones</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/23/the-miracle-of-cell-phones/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/23/the-miracle-of-cell-phones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A resourceful Coast Guard volunteer has been using social media and cell phone text messages to help rescuers find Haitians who are trapped or have been missed by food and water distributions, according to The New York Times. Ryan Bank has worked with the State Department, the Pentagon, aid groups and Haiti&#8217;s leading cell phone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How they saved a hero boat</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/18/how-they-saved-a-hero-boat/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/18/how-they-saved-a-hero-boat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck got a copy of February&#8217;s WoodenBoat magazine for Valentine&#8217;s Day this year (from a Valentine who, mercifully, tolerates the idiosyncrasies of a ship addict) but didn&#8217;t get a chance to give it a close read until today&#8217;s flight back from Jacksonville. In addition to some engaging write-ups and many illustrations of beautiful craft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Navy does the flyin&#8217;, the Coast Guard does the shootin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/17/the-navy-does-the-flyin-the-coast-guard-does-the-shootin/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/17/the-navy-does-the-flyin-the-coast-guard-does-the-shootin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP FREEDOM &#8212; Remember a few weeks ago when we wondered how this ship would use its new airborne-use-of-force capability to help stop drug runners in the Caribbean? The answer is pretty simple: The Freedom&#8217;s helicopter will put Coast Guard shooters where they need to be to stop &#8220;non-compliant vessels,&#8221; as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A benefit to remember a tragic one-year anniversary</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/15/a-benefit-to-remember-a-tragic-one-year-anniversary/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/15/a-benefit-to-remember-a-tragic-one-year-anniversary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3770</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former University of South Florida football player Nick Schuyler hosted a football fundraiser Saturday to honor three of his friends who died in a boating accident almost a year ago, according to the Tampa Tribune. The boat reportedly capsized Feb. 28 in the Gulf of Mexico when the anchor caught. Schuyler was rescued by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LCS: Hunting smugglers</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/01/lcs-hunting-smugglers/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/01/lcs-hunting-smugglers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3620</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even before the littoral combat ship Freedom touched saltwater, people were talking about how it could work with the Coast Guard on counter-drug operations in the Caribbean &#8212; up to and including the notion that the Coast Guard would buy its own LCSes so it could have them full-time. Since Freedom and the Coast Guard&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A thank you, from the top</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/29/a-thank-you-from-the-top/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/29/a-thank-you-from-the-top/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morale]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen took time out Thursday to give Coast Guardsmen a well-deserved pat on the back for being the first responders after the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. The Coast Guard deployed 1,000 service members, eight cutters, five planes and five helicopters over the past two weeks.  The service also stood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti rescue links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/20/haiti-rescue-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/20/haiti-rescue-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The greenside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Heavy-lift helo flyin&#8217;, cargo pallets loadin&#8217;, well deck floodin&#8217;, LCU launchin&#8217;, force-for-good-bein&#8217; links, anchored offshore and ready to deliver the latest updates on the biggest Navy amphibious operation since Inchon. The U.S. is sending a second amphibious ready group to join the one already on station off Port-au-Prince and delivering shipments of food and medicine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNA: Not if, but when</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/13/sna-not-if-but-when/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/13/sna-not-if-but-when/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[merchant ships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mine warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SNA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retired Adm. Harry Ulrich, a former commander of Naval Forces Europe, gave a bleak prognostication during a panel discussion a few moments ago. A major maritime calamity is coming, he warned: &#8220;If you like the way people almost blow up airplanes &#8212; how are we doing with our seaports? Does anybody in this room know? [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mishaps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3133</guid>
		<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>Top Coast Guard videos</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/16/top-coast-guard-videos/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/16/top-coast-guard-videos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3085</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard has released a list of its Top 11 videos, showing Coasties at their best. Why 11? Because the Coast Guard has 11 missions&#8230; People can vote online at the Coast Guard&#8217;s YouTube channel for their favorite video in the Coast Guard’s best video of 2009 contest. Scoop Deck does not wish to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wheel of (Military) Fortune!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/14/wheel-of-military-fortune/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/14/wheel-of-military-fortune/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s &#8220;Heroes&#8217; Week&#8221; on Wheel of Fortune from Dec. 14 to 18. Of course, every service is represented, but Scoop Deck thought you might want to know more about the sailors and Coasties playing. Here are the bios released by Wheel of Fortune: Coast Guard Health Services Technician 2nd Class Amber Barrick, stationed at Coast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All I want for Christmas is an EPIRB&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/14/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-an-epirb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t already penned your must-haves for your Christmas list, the Coast Guard has done it for you with the release of its ideas for &#8220;12 nautical days of Christmas.&#8221; Topping this list, of course, is a marine GPS navigation system. That&#8217;s right. Come Jan. 4, the Coast Guard is pulling the plug on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to the Haley crew</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/24/congratulations-to-the-haley-crew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Coast Guard&#8217;s mission heats up in the Arctic Ocean, the service is testing to see which boats it can use in the rough, icy waters. During the region&#8217;s brief summer, the Coast Guard sent the medium endurance cutter Alex Haley on patrol. For their 21 days above the Arctic Circle, the ship&#8217;s crew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dolphin helicopter turns 25</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/19/dolphin-helicopter-turns-25/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter is celebrating its 25th birthday today. The service accepted the HH-65A Dolphin helicopter for service on Nov. 19, 1984. The Dolphin has served the Coast Guard well, and they have another 18 years to go in service before they will be replaced under the Deepwater program. By the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch the Coast Guard take down drug smugglers</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/13/watch-the-coast-guard-take-down-drug-smugglers/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/13/watch-the-coast-guard-take-down-drug-smugglers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long, cold, rainy week here at the Center of Excellence, so what better way to wrap things up than by taking a mental vacation to the warm, exotic eastern Pacific? And, since we&#8217;re transporting ourselves there anyway, why not imagine some kind of motivational at-sea operations during the trip? No need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coasties get the keys to their brand-new ship</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/09/coasties-get-the-keys-to-their-brand-new-ship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing puts a Coast Guardsman in a better mood than getting a new ship. Navy Times has had the privilege of being around when the Coast Guard showed off new vessels, all the way from the small (a Response Boat-Medium) to the large (the national security cutter Bertholf) and saw how the associated crew members [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<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>Answers, questions about the mystery sailboat</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/05/answers-questions-about-the-mystery-sailboat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Deck brought you the case of the abandoned sailboat &#8212; a vessel discovered adrift by the destroyer Cole with a damaged mainsail and nobody aboard. At the time, there was nothing to go on but a pair of Navy photos, but now, we know what happened. Or do we? According to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limeys light &#8216;em up 2: Limeys light &#8216;em up again</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/29/limeys-light-em-up-2-limeys-light-em-up-again/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/29/limeys-light-em-up-2-limeys-light-em-up-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone not enjoy seeing the Royal Navy interdict drug smugglers, seize their contraband, then shoot up their vessels and sink them? If you don&#8217;t like it, don&#8217;t watch this video of the British frigate Iron Duke&#8217;s latest coup &#8212; the biggest cocaine seizure in Royal Navy history &#8212; which includes some pretty motivational footage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bourne Interdiction</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/17/speaking-of-movies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Damon made a visit to Coast Guard Station New York Tuesday while filming his new movie, The Adjustment Bureau. The movie, about mysterious forces trying to keep two lovers apart, includes a cameo with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Photo by PO3 Seth Johnson/Coast Guard]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial marks one-year anniversary of crash</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/08/memorial-marks-one-year-anniversary-of-crash/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/08/memorial-marks-one-year-anniversary-of-crash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point lost four crew members in a helicopter crash Sept. 4, 2008.  The air station marked the one-year anniversary of the crash Friday with a memorial. The air station also took part in a unique event conceived by Master Chief Petty Officer Patrick Daniels, the command master chief at Air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legare on patrol off the African coast</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/14/legare-on-patrol-off-the-african-coast/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/14/legare-on-patrol-off-the-african-coast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to share these cool photos of the medium endurance cutter Legare on patrol in the Atlantic Ocean Aug. 8. The Legare, home-ported in Portsmouth, Va. is deployed off the west and central coast of Africa in support of Africa Partnership Station, under the direction of Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa, 6th Fleet. [...]]]></description>
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