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		<title>That flag</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/02/that-flag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember a 1990-ish visit to a Japanese submarine base and being dumbfounded to see the subs flying the rising sun flag off their stern masts. Dumbfounded, because being, ahem, of a certain age, I associated the flag &#8212; a red disc with red and white &#8220;beams&#8221; extending outward &#8212; with the aggressive World War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a real FRUKUS</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/21/its-a-real-frukus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Counter-piracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime interdiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, we haven&#8217;t lost our sense of decorum here at Scoop Deck. FRUKUS 2011 is an invitational naval exercise now underway off the Virginia coast involving ships from Russia, France, the U.K. and the U.S. Navy. &#8220;FRUKUS&#8221; is an acronym for all four nations &#8212; we&#8217;re guessing it rhymes with RUCKUS, which means a commotion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombia&#8217;s drug lords enter the silent service</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/02/15/colombias-drug-lords-enter-the-silent-service/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/02/15/colombias-drug-lords-enter-the-silent-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s Pablo Escobar meets John Holland: drug lords built a 99-foot-long submarine, believed to be the first Colombian narco-sub capable of traveling fully submerged, Colombian officials said Monday. It even sported a periscope. The fiberglass sub, crewed by four, had been designed to haul up to eight tons of narcotics and could travel 9 feet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian frigate sinks after collision</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/31/indian-frigate-sinks-after-collision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire-ravaged and collision-bruised, an Indian frigate floundered at the dock in Mumbai early Sunday and sank in about 22 feet of water. By late Monday, only the mast of the Vindhyagiri was visible, the Hindustan Times reported. The frigate’s troubles began late Sunday afternoon. Some of the crew of 400 had brought along their families [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The big, bad Iranian surface fleet</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/17/the-big-bad-iranian-surface-fleet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iranian media reported Friday the country was getting ready to invest in new Jamaran-type frigates. The Iranian Navy launched the first of its Mowj-class frigates in February of last year. It was the first domestically produced surface combatant of its kind and a second is well along in production at Bandar Abbas, according to Jane&#8217;s. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ark Royal’s last voyage</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/12/06/ark-royals-last-voyage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her Majesty&#8217;s fleet took an austerity beating in October; that&#8217;s when it learned its flagship HMS Ark Royal would be decommissioned. On Friday, the doomed carrier pulled into Portsmouth, England, for the last time. The Guardian reports: &#8220;It&#8217;s very emotional,&#8221; said Leading Seaman Paul Stockell, one of those who had tears in his eyes — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The incredible dancing Coast Guard</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/08/the-incredible-dancing-coast-guard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese Coast Guard might have the U.S. Coast Guard beat in at least one respect: choreography. In this amazing video posted on YouTube, you can witness Japanese Coast Guardsmen dressed like school girls performing a flawlessly executed dance routine during sea and anchor detail. Prove the world wrong, U.S. Coast Guard. Let&#8217;s see some [...]]]></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>French carrier &#8220;not seaworthy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/01/french-carrier-not-seaworthy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle has been sidelined with a major engineering casualty until at least Christmas, and the time could not be worse for Great Britain, according to the Telegraph. With the U.K.&#8217;s only carrier Ark Royal scrapped, the two historic rivals were expected this week to announce a partnership that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to start learning Chinese?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/29/time-to-start-learning-chinese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese Navy soldiers attend a ceremony to see off the missile destroyer Shenzhen on a dock of Zhanjiang, southeast China, in 2007. // AP Photo via Xinhua&#8217;s Zha Chunming The inevitable march towards doomsday continues for U.S. dominance of the high seas, according to a growing chorus of critics who say China&#8217;s aggressive stance on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women allowed to join Bulgaria&#8217;s vanishing sub force</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/29/women-allowed-in-bulgarias-vanishing-sub-force/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/29/women-allowed-in-bulgarias-vanishing-sub-force/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. isn&#8217;t the only country integrating women into its submarine force.  But the Bulgarian Navy&#8217;s new policy comes with a knotty Catch-22: Female sailors are suddenly welcome in the submarine service right as lawmakers decided to scrap the country’s only submarine.  The sole submarine is all-but-extinct Soviet Romeo class diesel named the &#8220;Slava,&#8221; Bulgarian for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A rough week for Her Majesty’s navy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/22/a-rough-week-for-her-majestys-navy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/22/a-rough-week-for-her-majestys-navy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By any measure, the Royal Navy has had a rough week. In the span of three days, the Brits cut their flagship carrier, the Ark Royal, reduced their fleet to its smallest size in centuries and, now, has run its nearly $5.5 billion nuclear submarine Astute into the mud near Scotland&#8217;s Isle of Skye. Reports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh yeah, he just went there</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/20/oh-yeah-he-just-went-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In contemporary rhetoric, one popular way to demonize political adversaries is to compare them to Hitler. That&#8217;s just what conservative former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did at a speech at the Hudson Institute think tank on Capitol Hill last Friday. Relations between China and Japan have been rather tense of late, and the war [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never trust Brit sailors with your pets</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/19/never-trust-brit-sailors-with-your-pets/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/19/never-trust-brit-sailors-with-your-pets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently pet birds and warships don&#8217;t mix. Sailors on the British frigate Westminster discovered a parakeet (also called a budgie) fluttering around the ship while underway for an exercise near Plymouth. They named the bird Bostie and fed their new friend a meal of nuts, bread and water. Then things took a dark turn, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of British seapower, taken off the deep end</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/19/the-end-of-british-seapower-taken-off-the-deep-end/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/19/the-end-of-british-seapower-taken-off-the-deep-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our departed colleague Phil Ewing recently linked to a sobering Telegraph report on the enormous budget pressures facing the British fleet. Today&#8217;s Wall St. Journal takes a much cheekier view of the problem &#8212; specifically, as it relates to Britain&#8217;s apparent desire to continue funding two new STOVL-capable carriers, one already under construction, that won&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Once thing is certain: We can&#8217;t ignore them&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/08/once-thing-is-certain-we-cant-ignore-them/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/08/once-thing-is-certain-we-cant-ignore-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget about all this modern-day Navy news &#8212; let&#8217;s take a trip back to the bad good old days, when American ships were tangling with Soviet ships all over the world, and you, as a naval person, needed a brief on just what we were up against. This is &#8220;Soviet Sea Power Today,&#8221; another classic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the Navy close the flying boat gap?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/can-the-navy-close-the-flying-boat-gap/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/can-the-navy-close-the-flying-boat-gap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zounds! That dastardly Chief Commander of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Mohammad Ali Jafari &#8212; he&#8217;s done it again! First he built a navy with 100 vessels for every one U.S. warship, then he built an indefatigable 60-knot attack craft and now, worst of all, he&#8217;s fielding entire squadrons of flying boats! That&#8217;s right: If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASW has never been so adorable</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/asw-has-never-been-so-adorable/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/asw-has-never-been-so-adorable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We kill people, but we have to be nice about it&#8221; &#8212; so goes a U.S. military saying I&#8217;ve heard from Norfolk, Va. to Kabul. But our American troops are amateurs compared to the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, which has topped even its own impish cartoon mascot, Prince Pickles, with the heartwarming family day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian hospitality</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/17/russian-hospitality/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/17/russian-hospitality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re still trying to get more information about the frigate Taylor&#8217;s reported close encounters with Russian navy aircraft last weekend, but there&#8217;s one thing that&#8217;s already quite clear: these Russians have some funny ideas about hospitality. You invite an American warship to help you commemorate the end of the bloodiest war in human history, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn back the clock: An LCS for Saudi Arabia?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/14/turn-back-the-clock-an-lcs-for-saudi-arabia/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/14/turn-back-the-clock-an-lcs-for-saudi-arabia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Very little seems new about the reports this week on the Pentagon seeking congressional approval for $60 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia &#8212; the deal has been in the works for awhile and, even way back in 2007, its naval implications caused a lot of blog chatter. In those days, the naval bloggers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The age of the Euro-carrier</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/01/the-age-of-the-euro-carrier/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/01/the-age-of-the-euro-carrier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Defence types have been talking about this notion for a long time, and, amazingly, it could be upon us &#8212; France and the U.K. are said to be in discussions on a deal to &#8220;share&#8221; their three total aircraft carriers, in what could be the first-ever arrangement of its kind. Right now it&#8217;s a military [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signed, sealed, delivered</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/01/signed-sealed-delivered/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/01/signed-sealed-delivered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as scheduled, the United States of America transferred the frigate McInerney to the government of Pakistan on Tuesday in a ceremony that even included a &#8220;certificate of delivery,&#8221; suitable for framing in the new captain&#8217;s cabin. But even though old number 8 is now the frigate Alamgir (F 260) it isn&#8217;t going anywhere just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This isn&#8217;t what it looks like</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/20/this-isnt-what-it-looks-like/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/20/this-isnt-what-it-looks-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6034</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How many blog posts and forum comments over the years have compared the U.S. Navy&#8217;s littoral combat ships with the famous Swedish Visby-class corvettes? It may be the second or third most-discussed topic after &#8220;Should we bring back the battleships?&#8221; and &#8220;Has the Navy gone soft?&#8221; The &#8220;LCS v Visby&#8221; debate just got a dose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seaplane rescue</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/16/seaplane-rescue/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/16/seaplane-rescue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All right, so the photo&#8217;s not great &#8212; no disrespect, Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force &#8212; but it&#8217;s still pretty cool: Japanese commanders sortied a US-1A seaplane last week to rescue a sick crew member from the South Korean destroyer Sejong the Great. The staff of 7th Fleet &#8220;helped coordinate&#8221; the rescue, according to an announcement, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten years later</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/12/ten-years-later/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/12/ten-years-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks a decade since the Russian guided missile submarine Kursk sank with all hands during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea. What has the Russian submarine force learned since then? Unfortunately, according to this interview, not very much. Goes without saying, but just for the record: Sailing under the ocean can be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russians vow to restore faded naval glory. Again.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/30/russians-vow-to-restore-faded-naval-glory-again/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/30/russians-vow-to-restore-faded-naval-glory-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Information Dissemination has an interesting post this week linking to a story that quotes &#8220;a high-ranking Russian naval official&#8221; who promises that the Russian navy will &#8220;upgrade and reactivate&#8221; its fleet of Kirov-class battle cruisers, and that all four of the massive death-wagons will be back at sea by 2020. Sound familiar? It should &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The universal language</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/20/the-universal-language/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/20/the-universal-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can you tell that today&#8217;s Blue-Green Team is as super-joint and super-multinational as its leaders always claim? It has exported its PowerPoint practices to all our international partners: Here we see a Peruvian marine giving a brief aboard the amphibious transport dock New Orleans and&#8230; yes &#8230; he is going over an organizational wire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The figs from the land down under</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/19/the-figs-from-the-land-down-under/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/19/the-figs-from-the-land-down-under/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can you tell the difference between a U.S. Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate and the Australian version, known as the Adelaide class? Two quick things: 1: There&#8217;s a neat kangaroo graphic on the superstructure beneath the forward radar mast. 2: The Aussie figs still shoot missiles. The frigate Newcastle fired at least two surface-to-air missiles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gasp! Is RIMPAC a &#8216;snoozer?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/08/gasp-is-rimpac-a-snoozer/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/08/gasp-is-rimpac-a-snoozer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That ominous thudding noise you hear isn&#8217;t thunder &#8212; it&#8217;s the sound of heavy guns, shelling a target the Navy probably didn&#8217;t think it needed to defend: The annual, international Rim of the Pacific exercise, at which take-no-prisoners blogger Gina DiNicolo has leveled this broadside: Despite the size, locale and agenda, these games seem anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the Navy do small-sub, shallow-water ASW?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/26/can-the-navy-do-small-sub-shallow-water-asw/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/26/can-the-navy-do-small-sub-shallow-water-asw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 14:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Near-shore anti-submarine warfare is, amazingly, what&#8217;s hot online today: The New York Times is linking to a Popular Mechanics story warning that the navies of the world &#8212; including the U.S. Navy &#8212; need to brush up on their sub-hunting skills in the wake of the infamous Cheonan attack. In particular, writes Joe Pappalardo, today&#8217;s [...]]]></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>The fate of the Cheonan</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/20/the-fate-of-the-cheonan/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/20/the-fate-of-the-cheonan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The signs were all there: Sudden, unexpected explosion; the ship breaking in half; the rapid sinking; the heavy loss of life. They&#8217;re all the hallmarks of a torpedo attack, but in peacetime &#8212; or what passes for peacetime between North and South Korea &#8212; who wanted to believe it? But the evidence, South Korean investigators [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Sorry, chief, I&#8217;m not qualified in metric line-handling&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/19/sorry-chief-im-not-qualified-in-metric-line-handling/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/19/sorry-chief-im-not-qualified-in-metric-line-handling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 18:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5086</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or maybe it&#8217;s not that different after all &#8212; when the Royal Navy carrier Ark Royal docked for a port visit in Norfolk on Friday, these American sailors discovered you don&#8217;t seem to need any special skills to handle lines for a foreign warship. Ark Royal is in the U.S.  as part of Operation [...]]]></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>Fleet cuts under the maple leaf</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/14/fleet-cuts-under-the-maple-leaf/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/14/fleet-cuts-under-the-maple-leaf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 14:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times are hard for navies everywhere, even for our friends to the north &#8212; Canada&#8217;s press this week is full of reports about how the Canadian Navy will mothball patrol ships, sail frigates without running key systems and take other austerity measures. The stories don&#8217;t agree about whether the cuts will actually take place or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It certainly looks fearsome</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/07/it-certainly-looks-fearsome/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/07/it-certainly-looks-fearsome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 20:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this neat shot of the amphibious command ship Blue Ridge docking during a visit to Vladivostok, the Russian navy&#8217;s headquarters for interesting photo opportunities. Next door is the Slava-class cruiser Varyag &#8212; although who knows, the way their names change all the time &#8212; bristling with those ominous surface-to-surface missile tubes. That Russian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/07/seven-in-seven-5/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/07/seven-in-seven-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 15:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Defense Secretary Robert Gates dropped the bomb of the week. In his first invitation to the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space symposium, Gates suggested a need for cutting carriers, sinking SSBN(X) and eliminating Expeditionary Fighting Vehicles. You can read Gates&#8217; speech here,  and find out how this affects you in Monday’s edition of Navy Times. Speaking of amphibious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranians filming the Eisenhower?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/04/iranians-filming-the-eisenhower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Tilghman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what was that Iranian aircraft doing buzzing over the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower last week? Filming it, according to the Iran&#8217;s naval chief. TEHRAN &#8211; An Iranian navy plane that came close to a US aircraft carrier in the Gulf was filming the vessel, the Fars news agency quoted Iran’s naval chief as saying [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4879</guid>
		<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>And you thought the fight over Mayport was bad &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/27/and-you-thought-the-fight-over-mayport-was-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ukrainian opposition and pro-presidential lawmakers fight against each other during ratification of the Black Sea Fleet deal with Russia, in parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Ukraine&#8217;s parliament has voted to extend Russia&#8217;s lease of a Crimean naval port for the Black Sea Fleet in a chaotic session during which eggs and smoke bombs were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea’s meritorious promotion program?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/26/north-korea%e2%80%99s-meritorious-promotion-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January, former North Korean four-star Kim Myong Guk was seen wearing only three stars on his collar. Most analysts believed he had been held accountable for North Korea&#8217;s loss to South Korea in a naval skirmish off the west coast in November. But North Korean television footage and photographs released over the weekend find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEALs tighten ties with India</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/26/seals-tighten-ties-with-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this  month, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead visited the naval forces of India to strengthen the maritime partnership. Now, the SEALs are getting in on that action. The Indian newspaper The Telegraph reported today that the cruiser Shiloh, destroyers Chaffee and Lassen, frigate Curts, attack submarine Annapolis, two P3C Orions and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New theory in sinking of South Korean ship</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/new-theory-in-sinking-of-s-korean-ship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that many in the South Korean military and government have cast a suspicious, if not accusatory eye at their neighbor to the north regarding last month&#8217;s sinking of a corvette that left 46 dead. Moments ago, the South Korean newspaper Choson Ilbo reported that some military officials are now focusing their attention on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/seven-in-seven-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4764</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Navy nabbed a lot of headlines again this week. Leading the way is news that the Green Hornet on Thursday took to flight – the fighter jet, not the super hero. The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet was powered by a 50/50 blend of biofuel and JP-5. That same day, a U.S. military jury cleared a Navy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See for yourself: Iran&#8217;s naval war games</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/see-for-yourself-irans-naval-war-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this fresh video of Iran&#8217;s latest naval exercises in the Persian Gulf, in which  a swarm of small boats takes on what appears to be a large, helpless gray warship. An Mi-8 Hip helicopter makes an appearance at 0:50, but otherwise it&#8217;s a lot of shaky, blurry surface action stuff. Iran&#8217;s state-sponsored English-language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunting subs in shallow water is difficult</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/21/hunting-subs-in-shallow-water-is-difficult/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In these strange times of ours, when everybody&#8217;s talking about &#8220;irregular warfare&#8221;; and teaching small navies how to launch boats; and sailors getting duty in land-locked Afghanistan &#8212; isn&#8217;t it pleasant to know that a destroyer somewhere is still training to hunt submarines? It&#8217;s Navy-mission comfort food, but that doesn&#8217;t make it easy. As part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/16/seven-in-seven-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:45:35 +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 the Navy’s 10th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock will be named for Rep. John Murtha – a story first reported by Scoop Deck’s own Phillip Ewing. An unfortunate T-39 crash killed four in Georgia also made headlines, as did [...]]]></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>
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		<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 coolest business card ever</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/13/the-coolest-business-card-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck has seen many titles on business cards &#8212; commander, director, secretary, chairman &#8230; but never one as good as the one we received today: Scoop Deck spent an awesome morning with retired Capt. (Dr.) Don Walsh, pilot of the bathyscaphe Trieste, which recorded (by far) the deepest dive any man has made. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delays must be contagious</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/09/delays-must-be-contagious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems ours is not the only Navy that must contend with shipbuilding delays. New Zealand today took possession of its offshore patrol vessel Otago – two years late. A range of issues delayed delivery, most notably the failure of both engines as the ship was about to leave on its maiden voyage. The ship [...]]]></description>
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