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		<title>A public apology for barfing on the COD</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/30/a-public-apology-for-barfing-on-the-cod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear VRC-40 “The Rawhides,” I’m just writing to apologize for getting airsick in your C-2A Greyhound. It was certainly unintentional. You handled the plane with steady hands as we flew from Naval Air Station Mayport, Fla., to the carrier Enterprise last week. We even had weather on our side, allowing for a particularly calm flight. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not-so-fair winds at farewell</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/17/not-so-fair-winds-at-farewell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The temperature would rise to near 60 in Hampton Roads Tuesday, but winds gusting to 37 mph made it feel 45ish &#8212; and it always feels colder down at the Naval Station Norfolk waterfront, where the frigate Nicholas left around 10 a.m. How windy was it? The line handlers had to go hatless: The chop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CO vs. sailor&#8217;s mother</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/17/co-vs-sailors-mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fight is between blogger and Navy Mom Mary Brotherton and Capt. Brian &#8220;Lex&#8221; Luther, commanding officer of the carrier George H.W. Bush, a ship with ongoing commode problems. Brotherton has a blow-by-blow account of the head troubles on the carrier, complete with accounts from her son, a sailor onboard. It&#8217;s pretty thorough and includes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dive for that loose ball!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/09/dive-for-that-loose-ball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the Navy agreed to hold an NCAA basketball game on the flight deck of the carrier Carl Vinson, one probably could have gotten decent odds against the prospect of rain in San Diego on Veterans Day. Now there&#8217;s an 80 percent chance, and it&#8217;s looking like the highly anticipated North Carolina-Michigan State game could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy days and nights aboard Ike</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/19/busy-days-and-nights-aboard-ike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Norfolk-based carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower is deep into the basic phase of pre-deployment training while underway in the Atlantic. Technically, it&#8217;s taking part in a Tailored Ship&#8217;s Training Availability and Final Evaluation Problem, or TSTA/FEP, and conducting carrier qualifications for Carrier Air Wing 7 fliers. Ike will be out for several weeks to come, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haze gray and underway</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/27/haze-gray-and-underway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This simple yet atmospheric photo should resonate with anyone who&#8217;s ever been at sea &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>No pain, no gain</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/23/no-pain-no-gain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So you want to be a Navy master-at-arms or join a ship&#8217;s security force? Know that this is a hurdle you&#8217;ll have to clear: Yep, that&#8217;s a faceful of Oleoresin Capsicum spray &#8212; a staple of master-at-arms &#8220;A&#8221; school training and part of a requirement for shipboard security force qualification. But you don&#8217;t just get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dripper or the Trickle Down Café?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/02/hellcat-cafe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7874</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ronald Reagan has its own cafe. // U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Trevor Welsh On Jan. 31 a new coffee shop opened up on the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan. Apparently Hellcat Café, as it&#8217;s called, is popular enough to draw lines several sailors deep.  Cafés on other carriers have also [...]]]></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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		<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>A tradition of the sea</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/04/a-tradition-of-the-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7561</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On a cloudy but humid tropical day, several dozen sailors, donning crisp uniforms, gathered on aircraft carrier Carl Vinson’s port side elevator No. 4 as the ship maneuvered in the waters of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. On a table covered with a blue cloth sat urns of different sizes and colors – 43 in [...]]]></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>Midnight poetry to ring in 2011</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/12/30/midnight-poetry-to-ring-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the clock turns midnight on Jan. 1, quartermasters on the bridges of Navy warships will scribble a new day entry in the deck log entry under a red-filtered desk lamp. It&#8217;s an old Navy tradition to write the New Years new day entry in verse and, while it may not always be Shakespeare, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Vinson heads to sea</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/12/01/images-from-the-deploying-uss-carl-vinson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The carrier Carl Vinson left Naval Air Station North Island, Calif., on Tuesday for three weeks of training followed by a scheduled deployment. Here are some photos the Navy took as sailors boarded the ship and got under way. (Click for high-resolution versions.)]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday cheer</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/26/holiday-cheer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The carrier George Washington had a special holiday surprise this year courtesy of North Korea. While the Navy says the carrier was scheduled to participate in exercises with Japan, the plan changed in the wake of North Korea&#8217;s bombardment of the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. (That situation has become even more tense today.) So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This will be your life, cont&#8217;d</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/05/this-will-be-your-life-contd/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/05/this-will-be-your-life-contd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To follow up on a discussion from earlier in the week about Navy recruiting commercials, it seemed necessary to illustrate the point with this week&#8217;s bored sailor video. Remember a few years ago when the Navy purchased the rights to Godsmack&#8216;s then-hit song Awake? Despite the jokes about the commercials, the heavy guitar riff soon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attention recruits: this will be your life</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/03/attention-recruits-this-will-be-your-life/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/03/attention-recruits-this-will-be-your-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Navy recruiting ads are something of a running joke in the fleet, especially among junior enlisted personnel. The commercials invariably show sailors performing the most exciting and extraordinary tasks they perform throughout the world every day. Often those commercials are backdropped by a soundtrack of either shredding guitar or Saving Private Ryan-esque rolling snare drums [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caramel macchiato pairs well with 0600-1200 watch</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/02/caramel-macchiato-pairs-well-with-0600-1200-watch/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/02/caramel-macchiato-pairs-well-with-0600-1200-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7003</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ace reporter and newest Center of Excellence fellow Sam Fellman last week blew the lid off of the burgeoning gourmet coffee dependence among thousands of carrier crew members. The story, posted on the Navy Times website, exposed that carriers throughout the fleet were training SHs to run espresso machines, opening gourmet coffee shops and offering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bored sailors, getting funky</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/29/bored-sailors-getting-funky/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/29/bored-sailors-getting-funky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who have never sat through the movie &#8220;Napoleon Dynamite,&#8221; a scene near the end depicts Napoleon, the high school social outcast, busting some serious moves in front of his peers at a rally for his friend Pedro who is running for class president. See dance scene here. For this week&#8217;s bored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fore!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/26/fore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big deck sailors have it pretty good, as far as underway living is concerned. They have coffee shops, spinning classes, swimming pools and now driving ranges.]]></description>
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		<title>Shipboard maintenance: it&#8217;s a rap</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/25/shipboard-maintenance-its-a-rap/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/25/shipboard-maintenance-its-a-rap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few things on earth that make sailors want to sing as much as preventive maintenance. It may be true that some may loathe the endless hours of cleaning air filters, replacing valves, wire-brushing fire stations and changing water-tight gaskets. But that doesn&#8217;t seem to hold true for carrier Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s hip-hop artist extraordinaire [...]]]></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>Ground control to Maj. Tom</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/19/ground-control-to-maj-tom/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/19/ground-control-to-maj-tom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fighting an aircraft fire on the flight deck is a worst-case scenario. But training for it can be fun because it offers sailors an opportunity to dress in snazzy, futuristic space suits that would feel right at home on stage with David Bowie circa 1973.]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Simpson barfed in Truman visit</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/06/report-simpson-barfed-in-truman-visit/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/06/report-simpson-barfed-in-truman-visit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weird story just got weirder: Acne treatment spokeswoman Jessica Simpson only performed one song during her visit to the carrier Harry S. Truman, celebrity magazine Us Weekly reports, because she had to stop and throw up after eating on the mess decks with sailors. Potential causes include questionable choices from before her visit, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A surreal day at sea</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/05/a-surreal-day-at-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/05/a-surreal-day-at-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All right: You&#8217;re a sailor aboard a mighty 95,000-ton nuclear-powered warship in the dangerous waters of the Middle East, launching and recovering jets flying combat missions over Afghanistan. Then &#8220;Private Valentine&#8221; star Jessica Simpson shows up, with her blinding Chiclet teeth and her is-she-really-all-dumb-or-is-that-an-act routine, and what does everyone start doing? Singing Christmas music, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bedbugs? Gross!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/29/bedbugs-gross/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/29/bedbugs-gross/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This whole bedbug thing&#8230; blargh&#8230; it&#8217;s disgusting. Everywhere you turn these days, it&#8217;s bedbugs this, bedbugs that, bedbugs here, bedbugs there &#8212; I thought I&#8217;d find refuge this morning here in the Cubicle of Excellence, but what did I discover instead? A bedbug awareness and mitigation campaign announced this week by Navy Region Southeast, launched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auto dog</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/20/auto-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navy Times writer Phil Ewing and I learned a nickname for a popular machine on board the carrier Enterprise recently &#8212; the &#8220;Auto Dog,&#8221; aka the soft-serve ice cream machine. The term has been in the fleet for years, but it was new to me, and it took me almost a full 24 hours to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batten down the hatches</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/27/batten-down-the-hatches/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/27/batten-down-the-hatches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:43:34 +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=6133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An aircraft carrier like the Enterprise may seem big from up close, but when you zoom out a little, it&#8217;s just a tiny dot on the face of the ocean. So when you&#8217;re aboard that dot and there&#8217;s a storm with winds at 145 miles per hour bearing down on you, you better take precautions: [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<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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		<title>You tracking?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/11/you-tracking/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/11/you-tracking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[individual augmentees]]></category>
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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>Marines storm MSC&#8217;s pirate oiler</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/19/marines-storm-mscs-pirate-oiler/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/19/marines-storm-mscs-pirate-oiler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5645</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s hope the crew of the Military Sealift Command oiler Leroy Grumman knew in advance that a team of Marines was planning to fast-rope onto their ship from this CH-53 Super Stallion &#8212; let&#8217;s hope it wasn&#8217;t a case in which these Marines were flying around, spotted a huge gray ship flying not one, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the court of King Neptune</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/29/at-the-court-of-king-neptune/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/29/at-the-court-of-king-neptune/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[His Royal Majesty King Neptune paid a visit to the amphibious transport dock New Orleans this week as it crossed the Equator, to personally oversee that the ship was purged of slimy wogs and that only trusted shellbacks entered his briny domain. Fortunately there are outstanding pictures by MCCS Robert Winkler, so you can have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shake a leg</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/25/gimme-a-p/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/25/gimme-a-p/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gator Navy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photograph – of amphibious assault ship Peleliu’s mascot showing off some of his (or her?) latest dance moves to the amazement of school children in Timor-Leste – arrived in Scoop Deck’s inbox this week. For the scores of high-res photos that jam our mail servers, this one provided a sunny break from all things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toddler-flage</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/18/toddler-flage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Schept</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who knew the Navy Working Uniform came in this size? The Blue Ridge&#8217;s service staff invited sailors and their families to the enlisted galley for a Father&#8217;s Day luncheon.  They served up a photo of the day.]]></description>
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		<title>Power projection points to pending problems</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/17/power-projection-points-to-pending-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/17/power-projection-points-to-pending-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time ever, all four guided missile subs are deployed to an AOR. We’re not talking about being underway at the same time, and sea trials don’t count. We’re talking about being on the tip of the spear. For you strategists out there, that equals a combined 616 Tomahawk cruise missiles on station, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flag matters</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/04/flag-matters-2/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/04/flag-matters-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a great excuse to trot out one of the neatest fun facts about today&#8217;s Navy: The destroyer Winston S. Churchill, as a rare American warship named for a foreign personage, is also the rare U.S. ship that can fly a foreign ensign &#8212; the Royal Navy&#8217;s iconic White Ensign, to be precise, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notice to mariners: Beware these New York women</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/27/notice-to-mariners-beware-these-new-york-women/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/27/notice-to-mariners-beware-these-new-york-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 22:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sailors and Marines participating in Fleet Week, take heed &#8212; you&#8217;re not in sleepy Norfolk anymore. You&#8217;re in New York now, where tiny dogs get better medical care than most of the people of West Virginia; where men roll up both pant legs to pedal their single-speed bicycles; and where the simple fact of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Navy denies central sea monster archive</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/17/royal-navy-denies-central-sea-monster-archive/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/17/royal-navy-denies-central-sea-monster-archive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 14:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do the archives of the Royal Navy include volume after gilt-edged volume detailing secret encounters between Her Majesty&#8217;s warships and horrifying sea creatures? Do archivists in catacombs deep below Whitehall maintain stacks of leather-bound books with reports about ships battling giant squid, or sea dragons, or the dreaded kraken? Are there pages upon pages of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make way!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/14/give-way/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/14/give-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 22:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[    Talk about concentrated power. The folks at San Diego-based 3rd Fleet this week posted this photograph of three Nimitz-class aircraft carriers (yes, that’s the “68” of Nimitz in the middle, nestled between Carl Vinson, at top, and Ronald Reagan, at bottom) nestled at the berths at North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. crew visits Russia, meets&#8230; Rollie Fingers?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/11/u-s-crew-visits-russia-meets-rollie-fingers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 13:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a play! Lt. j.g. Curtis Sanders of the frigate Kauffman showed some Russian friends how Americans play baseball on Sunday with an aggressive slide into first base to beat the throw. Kauffman is visiting St. Petersburg to help commemorate the Allied victory in Europe, and as part of the trip, crew members took on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ge-ronimoooooo!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/10/ge-ronimoooooo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 20:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MCSN Chris Williamson gets today&#8217;s highly selective Imposing Big Deck Gator Swim Call Jump Photo of the Day Prize for this dizzying shot of a sailor aboard the amphibious assault ship Nassau who wanted off the ship bad enough to attempt this leap.]]></description>
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		<title>Far from home, a meal in the lap of luxury</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/10/far-from-home-a-meal-in-the-lap-of-luxury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 16:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lucky few sailors from the mine countermeasures ship Patriot will bring home a great sea story: Not only did they get to do a port visit in exotic Hong Kong, they were invited for dinner by an American couple &#8212; aboard their yacht. Steve and Barbara Watson, who now make their home in the [...]]]></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>Catching the cool breezes, when you can</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/27/catching-the-cool-breezes-when-you-can/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look: The north end of the Persian Gulf is really hot. It is really humid. It is really, really unpleasant. A surreal yellow haze hangs over everything: One minute you can pick up the sleek, ominous silhouette of a U.S. destroyer on patrol, the next minute you can&#8217;t. Would you wear long pants in that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The chow&#8217;s already great, and it&#8217;s about to improve</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/21/the-chows-already-great-and-its-about-to-improve/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/21/the-chows-already-great-and-its-about-to-improve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The civil-service mariners of Military Sealift Command handle millions of pounds of food every year resupplying Navy warships at sea, so they know about chow. But three ships in particular stand out in terms of excellent food service, according to an announcement this week. The dry cargo and ammunition ship Sacagawea, the oiler Guadalupe and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why, admiral, so nice of you to drop by</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/16/why-admiral-so-nice-of-you-to-drop-by/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/16/why-admiral-so-nice-of-you-to-drop-by/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can you tell the crew of the destroyer Farragut is on a roll these days? Not only are they fightin&#8217; pirates left and right, the ship&#8217;s namesake, Adm. David G. Farragut, traveled forward in time from the 19th century to pose in this picture with its current skipper, Cmdr. Philip Sobeck, as he presented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zumwalt&#8217;s rich, Russian cousin</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/16/zumwalts-rich-russian-cousin/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/16/zumwalts-rich-russian-cousin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At Scoop Deck, we don&#8217;t need many luxuries underway: As long as CS3 sets out the chocolate cheesecake in the chow line, there&#8217;s a good diverting movie on like &#8220;Punisher: War Zone&#8221; or &#8220;Behind Enemy Lines,&#8221; and the ship doesn&#8217;t roll so much it throws you out of the rack, what else do you want? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snipe stuff</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/15/snipe-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On these new ships, you keep hearing about how easy it is to run a plant with today&#8217;s new-fangled computer controls: The captain can push a button in his stateroom, the engines start, the ship goes. (Well, kind of.) Not on the amphibious assault ship Nassau, and its oil-fired, steam-powered brethren. Here, a guy &#8212; [...]]]></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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		<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>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>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/14/just-one-text-and-you-could-be-next/#comments</comments>
		<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>In their own words: LCS 1 refueling at sea</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/12/in-their-own-words-lcs-1-refueling-at-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cmdr. Randy Garner, captain of the littoral combat ship Freedom, had a conference-call chat on Monday with a few defense hacks, and he touched on many interesting points of the ship&#8217;s &#8220;trial deployment&#8221; in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. In addition to discussing Freedom&#8217;s first airborne-use-of-force drug interdiction, Garner also described what it has been [...]]]></description>
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