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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; individual augmentees</title>
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		<title>Recognition for &#8220;above and beyond&#8221; IAs</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/09/recognition-for-above-and-beyond-ias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 90,000 sailors have served in individual augmentee assignments &#8212; largely in Iraq, Afghanistan and environs &#8212; and Tuesday, Fleet Forces Command launched a web site honoring those who&#8217;ve &#8220;performed above and beyond the call of duty.&#8221; The site pays tribute to the 1,416 IAs awarded the Bronze Star, the 10 given the Bronze [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You tracking?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/11/you-tracking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our regular commenters here on the Deck, salty blogger Sparky of The Modern Sailor, brought several important issues to light in a post this morning &#8212; responding to last year&#8217;s &#8220;ooh-rah&#8221; interrogative: “Hoorah:” I get a lot of booters saying this crap so I guess they teach it to them up in Great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye, shipmate</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/04/goodbye-shipmate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MC1 Brien Aho captured this image of a memorial service last week at sea aboard the amphibious transport dock New Orleans, where the ship&#8217;s culinary specialists &#8212; that&#8217;s them in their galley gear, complete with pens and meat thermometers &#8212; mourned a comrade who was killed in Afghanistan. Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNO wraps up Middle East tour</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/02/cno-wraps-up-middle-east-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/02/cno-wraps-up-middle-east-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead recently visited Africa and the Middle East to strengthen maritime partnerships and spend time with sailors in the region. During his visit to the destroyer Cole, Roughead described the ship as symbol of strength. “Remember the special heritage that this ship has,&#8221; he said. “It represents the resiliency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISAF: Enough of all this nice stuff</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/26/isaf-enough-of-all-this-nice-stuff/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/26/isaf-enough-of-all-this-nice-stuff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re headed for Afghanistan, or you&#8217;re already there, get ready to say goodbye to Orange Julius. The Jules, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen and other Morale, Welfare and Recreation spots across the &#8216;Stan are going away, so U.S. and international forces there can focus on fightin&#8217;. That was the word this week from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling with the CNO &#8212; Fort Jackson</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-the-cno-fort-jackson/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-the-cno-fort-jackson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon took a day trip with Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead this week. This is the play-by-play report. 1440 We’ve left Georgia and arrived in South Carolina. The scenery is much the same. The humidity is much the same. The bugs look a little bigger. But the biggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vinson sailor goes to Africa, comes back with novel</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/21/vinson-sailor-goes-to-africa-comes-back-with-novel/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/21/vinson-sailor-goes-to-africa-comes-back-with-novel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If serving ashore as an individual augmentee is going to stay a reality of sailor life for a long time to come &#8212; which is what service officials keep saying &#8212; here&#8217;s a good example of how to make the best of it: IT2 Angela Bryant, of the carrier Carl Vinson, was sent to Djibouti [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A sailor surge in Afghanistan?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/02/a-sailor-surge-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/02/a-sailor-surge-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first blush, it might not seem like the Navy would be much affected by President Obama&#8217;s announcement last night that he is sending 30,000 more troops to land-locked Afghanistan by next year. But there are thousands of mountain sailors across Afghanistan, and it seems likely that more could begin deploying there as part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just don&#8217;t call &#8216;em desert squids</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/03/just-dont-call-em-desert-squids/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/03/just-dont-call-em-desert-squids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At one point in the Navy&#8217;s recent history, sailors serving ashore in Iraq and Afghanistan, often as individual augmentees in Army units, took to calling themselves &#8220;dirt sailors.&#8221; The brass didn&#8217;t like that, we learned. Maybe it was due to the implied value of &#8220;dirt.&#8221; Sailors, accustomed to being at sea and surrounded by water were merely being observant, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A horse sailor</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/a-horse-sailor/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/a-horse-sailor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one that might throw you off. From a distance you&#8217;d think &#8220;soldier,&#8221; but in fact Scoop Deck found this sailor in Kuwait turning in gear after an individual augmentee assignment with the Army&#8217;s 1st Cavalry Division. According to the latest information from 5th Fleet, there are 4,950 IAs throughout the Central Command area.]]></description>
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