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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; leadership</title>
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		<title>Three new ships named after Marines — but did the Navy get it right?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/06/three-new-ships-named-after-marines-but-did-the-navy-get-it-right/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/06/three-new-ships-named-after-marines-but-did-the-navy-get-it-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Lamothe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amphibious operations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Lamothe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Above, you see the destroyer Jason Dunham. It&#8217;s named after Cpl. Jason Dunham, who covered a grenade with his helmet on April 14, 2004, in an attempt to shield the blast from fellow Marines. He died eight days later, and received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroism on Jan. 11, 2007. No human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;America&#8217;s Worst Bosses&#8221; list includes former CO, XO</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/20/americas-worst-bosses-list-includes-two-fired-cos/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/20/americas-worst-bosses-list-includes-two-fired-cos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abusive leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9843</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of those end-of-year best-of/worst-of lists that multiply like flies this time of year. But this one caught the eye for two reasons: It purports to list America&#8217;s Worst Bosses &#8212; and who hasn&#8217;t got a story to tell about an awful supervisor? &#8212; and it lists a former Navy commanding officer and a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>End of an era</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/06/end-of-an-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[6th Fleet]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 7, 1970, the Beatles released their last single: &#8220;The Long and Winding Road.&#8221; Last week, the amphibious transport dock Ponce, launched 13 days after the song and commissioned in July 1971, completed its own long journey, coming home for the last time after four decades of service. Those years were filled with significant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crowston comes out</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/21/crowston-comes-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-gay slurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commanding officers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Proposing call signs like “Fagmeister” and “Gay Boy” &#8212; and the winner, &#8220;Romo&#8217;s bitch&#8221; &#8212; one can only assume that at least a few of Lt. Steve Crowston&#8217;s fellow officers in Strike Fighter Squadron 136 felt pretty sure the unit&#8217;s administrative/legal officer and avid Dallas Cowboys fan was a homosexual. But Crowston, who filed multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McFaul&#8217;s new chiefs beat the crowd</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/15/mcfauls-new-chiefs-beat-the-crowd/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/15/mcfauls-new-chiefs-beat-the-crowd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chiefs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pinning]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Norfolk-based destroyer McFaul broke ranks Thursday and pinned its five new chief petty officers day earlier than the rest of the Navy. There was a good reason for that. McFaul did so to accommodate a scheduled deployment. So even when a short-notice delay changed that deployment date, the ship held the ceremony so as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A success story, and a lesson learned</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/30/a-success-story-and-a-lesson-learned/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/30/a-success-story-and-a-lesson-learned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Board of Inspection and Survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fleet Forces Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gator Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, the dock landing ship Oak Hill was in poor shape &#8212; and that&#8217;s by the Fleet Forces Command chief&#8217;s reckoning. Beginning in 2005, five deployments in five years, no time for maintenance and inadequate manning had left the relatively young ship with a degraded power plant, endemic corrosion and a whole lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Spiced&#8217;: A Very Special episode</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/06/spiced-a-very-special-episode/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/06/spiced-a-very-special-episode/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8079</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember in the &#8217;80s when sitcoms did Very Special episodes? Who will ever forget Jessie&#8217;s freak out when she took caffeine pills? Or the time Urkel got drunk and almost died? And don&#8217;t get Scoop Deck started on the time Brad got high, or on Uncle Ned&#8217;s drinking problem. The sailors up at the Naval Submarine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It really is a coalition, folks!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/21/meeting-of-the-minds/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/21/meeting-of-the-minds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admirals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8029</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration is working hard to play down the U.S. role in the airstrikes and no-fly zone operations on and over Libya, with senior officials stressing that the U.S. involvement is &#8220;limited&#8221; and that the operation is a broad-based coalition effort with international participation and Arab League backing &#8212; not a U.S.-led foray into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, we can</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/18/yes-we-can/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/18/yes-we-can/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7994</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hospitalman Briana Bartholomew belts out a &#8220;hooyah!&#8221; after completing several pushups with Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (SS/SW) Rick West in San Diego March 16 at the Sea Service Leadership Association annual women&#8217;s symposium.//Photo by MC1 Elena Pence In a crowd of more than 1,300, Hospitalman Briana Bartholomew answered a challenge from Master [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;XO Movie Night&#8217; videos are out &#8230; all of them</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/04/xo-movie-night-videos-are-out/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/04/xo-movie-night-videos-are-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admirals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you probably know by now, Adm. John Harvey of Fleet Forces Command on Thursday unveiled the results of his investigation into the controversial “XO Movie Night” video skits aired on the carrier Enterprise from 2005 to 2007, recommending that secretarial letters of censure be issued to two admirals and two of the carrier’s former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firing Honors, pro and con, Week 2</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/10/firing-honors-pro-and-con-week-2/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/10/firing-honors-pro-and-con-week-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Adm. John Harvey learned about the controversial, four-year-old shipboard videos co-produced by Capt. Owen Honors on Dec. 31 &#8212; the day before they were published for the first time outside the skin of the carrier Enterprise &#8212; and &#8220;immediately ordered an investigation,&#8221; he says in a Jan. 7 post on his command blog. Harvey also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support for Capt. Honors</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/03/support-for-capt-honors/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/03/support-for-capt-honors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7541</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Navy didn&#8217;t mince words in its official reaction to Capt. Owen Honors&#8217; role in the creation of what are viewed by many as overly suggestive or inappropriate videos &#8212; meant to be humorous &#8212; that were broadcast aboard the carrier Enterprise during his run as XO back in 2006-2007. &#8220;Those in command &#8230; are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ho ho hooyah!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/12/15/happy-holidays-love-the-management/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/12/15/happy-holidays-love-the-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7475</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again, and the top brass are issuing their holiday greetings. Top marks, as usual, go to MCPON Rick West with yet another creative video put out on his Facebook page. You can view it here. He seems to enjoy putting out goofy videos to get his message across. CNO Adm. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fate of LCS, cont&#8217;d.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/14/the-fate-of-lcs-contd/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/14/the-fate-of-lcs-contd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Galrahn has been reading a lot of news stories and think-tank studies and such lately, and he has come to this conclusion: The strategic winds are blowing such that the Navy&#8217;s littoral combat ship won&#8217;t survive the next infamous Pentagon budgetary rock-drill known as POM 12. That rock-drill will be keyed off a CNA study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking the talk, or, The dessert that nobody wants</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/13/the-dessert-that-nobody-wants/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/13/the-dessert-that-nobody-wants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, not long after Navy Secretary Ray Mabus began his job, he invited a group of journalists to the Pentagon for an introductory chat. He was still trying to get his bearings in the nonstop party called the Puzzle Palace, and described a steep learning curve with all the unfamiliar acronyms and technical terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve come a long way, female service members</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/07/youve-come-a-long-way-female-service-members/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/07/youve-come-a-long-way-female-service-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. Ann Dunwoody, commanding general of Army Materiel Command; and National Defense University president Vice Adm. Ann Rondeau all appeared with CNN anchor Kyra Phillips this week in Washington to talk about the advances that women have made in the military services. For example, Dunwoody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The flag officer billet even SecNav couldn&#8217;t create</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/06/the-flag-officer-billet-even-secnav/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/06/the-flag-officer-billet-even-secnav/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wherever he goes, whether making speeches on beautiful Treasure Island, or meeting with high-powered Belgian defense officials, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus doesn&#8217;t mind letting people know that he comes from a place called Mississippi. In fact, one of the colleges he&#8217;s attended also is located there, a school called &#8220;Old Mississippi,&#8221; which he also is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did a SEAL submarine McChrystal?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/23/did-a-seal-submarine-mcchrystal/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/23/did-a-seal-submarine-mcchrystal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Pentagon probe has cleared retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his former senior aides of having uttered the ungentlemanly remarks that brought down his career, reports say. So who did make them, or at least some of them? A Navy SEAL officer, according to the New York Times: The Army review has been turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help the Navy be more efficient!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/26/help-the-navy-be-more-efficient/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/26/help-the-navy-be-more-efficient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Listen up, shipmates! Defense Secretary Robert Gates needs YOU to come up with suggestions for how to make this party we call the Defense Department run more efficiently. We need to show all those graybeards over on Capitol Hill there&#8217;s no reason for any debilitating budget cuts! But there&#8217;s money in it for you &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Burning down the PowerPoint palace</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/26/burning-down-the-powerpoint-palace/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/26/burning-down-the-powerpoint-palace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever prepared or viewed a PowerPoint presentation &#8212; which is to say, everyone connected in any way with the defense of the United States &#8212; needs to read Army Col. Lawrence Sellin&#8217;s devastating indictment of the military&#8217;s slide-deck culture. If you subbed in &#8220;admiral&#8221; for &#8220;general,&#8221; and &#8220;Navy&#8221; for &#8220;Army,&#8221; would this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The LCS name strategy at work</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/25/the-lcs-name-strategy-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/25/the-lcs-name-strategy-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6080</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday we posited that the latest delay in the littoral combat ship program could have some upsides for the Navy, one of which was freeing up time in which to think of some awesome names for the next batch of 15 ships. We got some great suggestions &#8212; sarcastic and otherwise &#8212; but today [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>What sank the Cheonan? Daddy issues, SecDef says</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/13/what-sank-the-cheonan-daddy-issues-secdef-says/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/13/what-sank-the-cheonan-daddy-issues-secdef-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We know who, what, where, when and how &#8212; and many thinkers have weighed in with theories on why North Korea sank the South Korean patrol ship Cheonan in March. But this latest one is a little different, because it&#8217;s from Defense Secretary Robert Gates. His analysis isn&#8217;t new in itself, but his imprimatur carries [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>SecDef to DDG: You get the money, shipmates</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/13/secdef-to-ddg-you-get-the-money/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/13/secdef-to-ddg-you-get-the-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Robert Gates paid a visit to the destroyer Higgins on Thursday and gave the crew a big bravo zulu for its last deployment, which included a BMD cruise in the Mediterranean and being the first U.S. warship to respond to January&#8217;s earthquake in Haiti. Higgins and its BMD siblings are in incredibly high [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gates swings the sword again, but the Navy could benefit</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/09/gates-swings-the-sword-again-but-the-navy-could-benefit/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/09/gates-swings-the-sword-again-but-the-navy-could-benefit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every flag officer has a target on her or his back, Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned Monday, announcing an explosive new round of cuts that he hopes will result in at least 50 fewer admirals and generals. Gates wants to show the world (but mostly Congress) that he can cut the legendary bureaucracy emanating from [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>In their own words: Harvey&#8217;s caution on LCS</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/29/in-their-own-words-harveys-caution-on-lcs/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/29/in-their-own-words-harveys-caution-on-lcs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your correspondents went up to see Fleet Forces boss Adm. John Harvey appear before a House Armed Services Committee panel on Wednesday, a session that included so much interesting stuff that we&#8217;ll be writing about it for some time. In addition to Harvey&#8217;s we-can-fix-the-fleet-in-two-years pledge, and revelations about yet another set of new problems aboard [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>If you&#8217;re gonna bet, bet on the Navy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/27/if-youre-gonna-bet-bet-on-the-navy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/27/if-youre-gonna-bet-bet-on-the-navy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5758</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Defense analyst Bryan McGrath has an interesting column in our grown-up sibling Defense News this week, making the case that the U.S. should try to be smart about the pending budget cuts that everyone in Washington sees lurking down each dark alley. Look, McGrath writes, we&#8217;re not going to get into another major land war [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>LPD 17: If everyone&#8217;s responsible, is no one to blame?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/02/lpd-17-if-everyones-responsible-is-no-one-to-blame/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/02/lpd-17-if-everyones-responsible-is-no-one-to-blame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For sailors and Navy-watchers, this week&#8217;s release of yet another Navy document that, yet again, castigates the many internal failures that, once more, caused expensive problems and delays aboard the fleet&#8217;s San Antonio-class small-deck gators was&#8230;  sorry, lost my train of thought there. Where was I? Oh, right &#8212; the San Antonio class still isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The long flight back to Washington</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/22/the-long-flight-back-to-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/22/the-long-flight-back-to-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5464</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even the most grizzled military reporters here at the Center of Excellence are in shock this morning over the up-and-ready scandal to which everyone in Washington blinked awake this morning: President Obama has recalled the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, over what sounds like one corker of a profile in the forthcoming issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lily, Rosemary, the Jack of Hearts and MCPON</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/21/mcpon-dont-follow-leaders-watch-the-parking-meters/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/21/mcpon-dont-follow-leaders-watch-the-parking-meters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re lost in the rain, in Juarez, and it&#8217;s Easter time too, you still need to remember to use operational risk management. And you may have many contacts among the lumberjacks to get you facts when someone attacks your imagination &#8212; but if you want the real gouge, go to Master Chief Petty Officer [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>SecNav becomes Gulf Czar. Or is it &#8220;Captain Marvel?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/18/secnave-becomes-gulf-czar/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/18/secnave-becomes-gulf-czar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5414</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Navy world is still figuring out what it means that President Obama has asked Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to be the Gulf Coast recovery honcho. Reportedly, Mabus will keep his day job as the top civilian leader of the Navy and Marine Corps, which likely means he&#8217;ll log a lot of time in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>As hard core as they come</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/17/as-hard-core-as-they-come/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/17/as-hard-core-as-they-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  Meet Lt. John Pucillo. This EOD leader lost his left leg above the knee when an IED exploded outside his vehicle in May 2006, in Baghdad. But he didn’t let that hold him back. Pucillo endured nine grueling months of rehab at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, then returned to active EOD service. He [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Merlin helicopter links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/16/merlin-helicopter-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/16/merlin-helicopter-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sonar dippin&#8217;, torpedo droppin&#8217;,  medium-lift mission flyin&#8217;, links, with plenty of legroom and no unpleasant hydraulic fluid leaking from the overheads: Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has been called up to the show: The White House wants him to knock off all this silly Navy stuff and start preparing a high-profile, long term Gulf Coast &#8220;recovery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An interesting item in the NOC</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/27/an-interesting-item-in-the-noc/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/27/an-interesting-item-in-the-noc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 12:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a delicate item: An Amphibian Associate of ours and his eagle-eyed readers have spotted something hilarious in the new Naval Operations Concept, but it&#8217;s borderline scatological. It involves the glossy pictures that take up much of the document and the salty language common among average sailors out in the fleet. That&#8217;s probably all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy, Scoop Deck release operations concepts</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/25/navy-scoop-deck-release-operations-concepts/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/25/navy-scoop-deck-release-operations-concepts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 14:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck on Tuesday released its 2010 Blog Operations Concept, which seeks to operationalize the notational conceptual framework that underpins key Web 2.0 content-delivery matrices through the use of italics, Emphatic Capitalization and Terms Made Into Arbitrary Acronyms (TMIAA). Blog Operations Concept You are reading words on a site on a computer network, known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the Pentagon need a review review?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/21/does-the-pentagon-need-a-review-review/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/21/does-the-pentagon-need-a-review-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 14:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The House Armed Services Committee this week ordered the Pentagon to study how many BMD-capable ships the U.S.  needs, giving it a deadline of March 1 next year &#8212; three months after American warships have been obligated to take on their standing patrols in the Mediterranean. But wait &#8212; the Pentagon just finished a Ballistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gates claims sanity</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/20/gates-claims-sanity/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/20/gates-claims-sanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second time in as many weeks, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has publicly proclaimed his own sanity. Or at least that he is &#8220;not crazy.&#8221; The first happened May 7 when he told reporters: I may want to change things, but I&#8217;m not crazy. I&#8217;m not going to cut a carrier, OK?&#8221; The comment [...]]]></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>
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		<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>In their own words: The supe on the Herndon climb</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/12/in-their-own-words-the-supe-on-the-herndon-climb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 19:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANNAPOLIS, Md. &#8212; Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler convened a year-in-review meeting with reporters here Wednesday in a conference room high in Nimitz Library. As sailboats and pleasure craft cruised the tranquil Severn River outside, he described why he is no fan of the academy&#8217;s annual Herndon Monument climb and why he thinks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SecDef&#8217;s blast effects</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/11/secdefs-blast-effects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 15:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you make of Defense Secretary Robert Gates&#8217; recent fusillade against the sea services? Was it, in fact, a fusillade, or is it the &#8220;swan song&#8221; for a SecDef on his way out the door? Should the Navy and Marine Corps be worried about big cuts, or can they just wait Gates out as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/07/seven-in-seven-5/</link>
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		<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>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>The Admiral to the end</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/the-admiral-to-the-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the April 26 edition of Time Magazine, ABC World News anchor Diane Sawyer answers 10 questions from readers regarding her decades as a journalist. Rome Ibera, of Dumont, N.J., asked “What has been your most difficult interview so far?” Sawyer answered: Admiral Hyman Rickover. He was in his 80s at the time. He&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geek Squad takes on whole new meaning</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/20/geek-squad-takes-on-whole-new-meaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As further evidence that the Geek Squad provides the best pickings for tomorrow’s Navy, we turn to the latest news out of the Naval Academy. For the Class of 2015, cyberwarfare and cybersecurity will be right up there with the traditional instruction of all things nautical. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to the latest [...]]]></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>CNO wraps up Middle East tour</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/02/cno-wraps-up-middle-east-tour/</link>
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		<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>A day aboard Truman &#8212; the Skipper</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/30/a-day-aboard-truman-the-skipper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon just completed a 24-hour embark aboard the carrier Harry S Truman. This is the play-by-play.  0600 Reveille, reveille! All hands heave out and trice up. Reveille!  Truman’s 65-ton rudders are cutting through some choppier waters. It makes for a gentle rocking motion that invites one to remain in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day aboard Truman &#8212; the XO</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/30/a-day-aboard-truman-the-xo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon just completed a 24-hour embark aboard the carrier Harry S Truman. This is the play-by-play. Truman&#8217;s XO knows it’s the sailors who make the difference, and he has some strong initiatives to take care of them, their families and their Navy. (Photo by Lance M. Bacon) 2030 Fresh out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day aboard Truman &#8212; Unsung Heroes</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/30/a-day-aboard-truman-unsung-heroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon just completed a 24-hour embark aboard the carrier Harry S Truman. This is the play-by-play.   1800 Scoop Deck has laid down the challenge. We have a couple of open hours, and we want to spend them with some deck plate leaders, some sailors who are never in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day aboard Truman &#8212; Cat 3 is down!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/30/a-day-aboard-truman-cat-3-is-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon just completed a 24-hour embark aboard the carrier Harry S Truman. This is the play-by-play.   HT2 Anthony Picillo and his team stands in front of the 10-foot hydraulic line that shut down Cat 3 &#8212; but for only two hours, thanks to the ship&#8217;s metal shop. (Photo by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day aboard Truman &#8212; the CAG</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/30/a-day-aboard-truman-the-cag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon just completed a 24-hour embark aboard the carrier Harry S Truman. This is the play-by-play. Capt. Jay “Spock” Bynum talks with Scoop Deck as closed circuit TV gives live feed of an F/A-18 trap over his shoulder. (Photos by Lance M. Bacon) 1630 Scoop Deck is in the office [...]]]></description>
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