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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Liberty</title>
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		<title>Back to the Philippines?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/04/13/back-to-the-philippines/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/04/13/back-to-the-philippines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[7th Fleet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joint operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=10492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s getting more jittery in the Pacific. North Korea&#8217;s failed launch of a missile April 12 gives them more drive to conduct their next nuclear underground test, if nothing but to show the world that its new leader, Kim Jong Un, is just as tough and threatening as his paternal predecessors, defense analysts say. All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love and the Navy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/09/love-and-the-navy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/09/love-and-the-navy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=10195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day will be particularly special for all the couples reunited in Norfolk this week after the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group&#8217;s return from that insanely long 10 1/2-month deployment. But since it falls on a Tuesday, those with duty, as well as many of us working stiffs, are more likely to take our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down Under, memories of another ‘Pearl Harbor’</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/25/down-under-memories-of-another-%e2%80%98pearl-harbor%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/25/down-under-memories-of-another-%e2%80%98pearl-harbor%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No doubt the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor stands out as a critical turning point in our nation’s history. Next month, we mark the 70th anniversary, and the nation will join countless veterans and service members in recalling the sacrifice from that day and the amazing generation that stepped up and answered the nation&#8217;s call. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving lives this summer</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/20/saving-lives-this-summer/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/20/saving-lives-this-summer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 13:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marine Corps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mishaps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naval Safety Center]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Announcements of annual safety campaigns may for many go in one ear and out the other, but the Naval Safety Center&#8217;s summer campaign, which officially begins Memorial Day weekend, is an opportunity for Navy leaders to hit the deckplates and hammer home the message that it&#8217;s possible to have fun without taking life-threatening risks. Last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting safer</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/29/getting-safer/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/29/getting-safer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class A mishaps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Officials have to be encouraged at the trend toward a safer on- and off-duty Navy, indicated by near-mid-year Naval Safety Center statistics. We type those words with a big &#8220;knock on wood,&#8221; of course. But with the fiscal year &#8212; which began Oct. 1 &#8212; nearly halfway gone, it&#8217;s looking like the Navy is shaping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Czar (aka SecNav): No easy answers</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/02/gulf-czar-aka-secnav-no-easy-answers/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/02/gulf-czar-aka-secnav-no-easy-answers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has been on a public tour of the Gulf Coast states all week in his new capacity as the Obama administration&#8217;s &#8220;Captain Marvel&#8221; charged with masterminding the region&#8217;s recovery. So far, he&#8217;s met with politicians, convened some town-hall meetings, and viewed skimming and oil-cleaning. Today he&#8217;s got a phone discussion scheduled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patriotic pic of the week</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/28/patriotic-pic-of-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/28/patriotic-pic-of-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 13:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima kicked off New York City’s 23rd Annual Fleet Week as it made its way down the Hudson River and past the Statue of Liberty on Wednesday. Fort Hamilton’s four-gun battery fired an 11-gun salute to honor the participating ships. Sailors and Marines manning the rails then saluted as they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy leadership&#8217;s official blog cleared to engage</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/navy-blog-cleared-to-engage/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/navy-blog-cleared-to-engage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes things happen that you never thought you&#8217;d see in your lifetime &#8212; Deep Throat&#8217;s identity revealed; Fidel Castro out of power (effectively) and now, an official, no-foolin&#8217;, Big Navy blog. Longtime Scoop Deck readers may remember that we told you about Navy Live, as it&#8217;s called, not long after the Deck itself was first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty in New Zealand? Strewth! Well, maybe.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/14/liberty-in-new-zealand/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/14/liberty-in-new-zealand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re serving out in the Pacific and you&#8217;ve always wanted to see Middle Earth New Zealand on a port visit, your chances could be improving &#8212; maybe. U.S. warships have been banned from The Land In The Long White Cloud since 1986, when lawmakers there decided no nuclear-powered ships, or ships carrying nuclear weapons, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low end v. high end and fleet of tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/04/low-end-v-high-end-and-fleet-of-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/04/low-end-v-high-end-and-fleet-of-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:33:58 +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=3703</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our high-end colleague Antonie Boessenkool has a must-read story about some of the remarks that Navy Undersecretary Bob Work has been making this week out in San Diego, on his views of the Navy&#8217;s future budget and strategy needs. Take this gem, for example: &#8220;The bottom line is, the [irregular warfare] stuff doesn&#8217;t cost a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the Great Green Fleet sail in time?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/15/can-the-great-green-fleet-sail-in-time/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/15/can-the-great-green-fleet-sail-in-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and technology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck was disappointed Wednesday to learn that, although Navy Secretary Ray Mabus wants the Navy to field an all-sustainably powered carrier strike group by 2016, plans do not call for the ships to be painted green. Perhaps it&#8217;s just as well, because the &#8220;Great Green Fleet&#8221; must overcome any number of other challenges before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brace for impact: Reagan arrives in Phuket (updated)</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/22/brace-for-impact-reagan-arrives-in-phuket/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/22/brace-for-impact-reagan-arrives-in-phuket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Phuket Wan newspaper, of Phuket, Thailand, is quickly becoming an indispensable source for WestPac naval coverage &#8212; and you can&#8217;t help but like a newspaper that runs this headline: US Warships Anchor! Phuket&#8217;s All Set to Rumble So the fleet&#8217;s in, so to speak, and Phuket boosters are expecting a $1 million-per-day boost to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All hands, be advised: Look out for &#8216;ladyboys&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/21/all-hands-be-advised-look-out-for-ladyboys/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/21/all-hands-be-advised-look-out-for-ladyboys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sailors know it&#8217;s a dangerous world out there: Let your guard down for less than a second and you can be vacuumed into a jet intake, or blown off the flight deck and never seen again. Here&#8217;s something else to add to all the occupational hazards of Navy life: &#8216;Ladyboy&#8217; attacks. The Ronald Reagan carrier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filipino rep: U.S. Navy keep out</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/19/filipino-rep-u-s-navy-keep-out/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/19/filipino-rep-u-s-navy-keep-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1841</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not everybody loves visits from the carrier George Washington as much as the Australians. When the ship pulled into Manila Bay last week, a representative in the Philippine Congress called in no uncertain terms for GW to turn right around and leave. U.S. aircraft carriers, as &#8220;floating bases&#8221; for strike aircraft, are as bad as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back in SecNav&#8217;s day</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/04/back-in-secnavs-day/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/04/back-in-secnavs-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chiefs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MANAMA, BAHRAIN &#8212; Navy Secretary Ray Mabus was about halfway through an all-hands call here in an auditorium packed with sailors and Marines when a new questioner approached the microphone. In Mabus&#8217; opening remarks, the officer said, Mabus had mentioned the Navy over which he now presides was very different from the one in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scuttlebutt from down under</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/17/scuttlebutt-from-down-under/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/17/scuttlebutt-from-down-under/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[//Australian Government While you&#8217;re waiting for the night flight to Vegas or you&#8217;re just waiting for a bag of frozen steaks to thaw, check out this video from the Aussie fleet. The relevance is both Scoop Deck&#8217;s unrelenting curiosity about other naval forces as well as the looming arrival of Australian frigates Ballarat and Sydney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MCPON&#8217;s July 4 message: Hiiii-YAH!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/30/mcpons-july-4-message-hiiii-yah/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/30/mcpons-july-4-message-hiiii-yah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strike that &#8212; it&#8217;s actually &#8220;Hooyah.&#8221; In his message to the fleet for the Independence Day holiday, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (SS/SW) Rick West encouraged sailors to &#8220;take every possible precaution (including watching out for others) whether you&#8217;re driving, riding a motorcycle, on the water or staying at home with fireworks and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No more fun of any kind</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/15/no-more-fun-of-any-kind/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/15/no-more-fun-of-any-kind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
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