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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Military Sealift Command</title>
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		<title>Mission of Mercy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/22/mission-of-mercy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The hospital ship Mercy is back in San Diego this week after a humanitarian cruise in the Pacific, according to an announcement from Military Sealift Command, which means a fresh shipment of fun facts about this aspect of global good-doing, courtesy of MSC spokeswoman Laura Seal: Patients treated: 103,242. Pairs of eyeglasses and sunglasses distributed: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life support</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/20/life-support/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/20/life-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The amphibious transport dock San Antonio sits idle in Norfolk, Va. because of problems that began years ago in the builder&#8217;s yard at Avondale, La. Its sibling, New Orleans, was delivered incomplete and ruled &#8220;degraded&#8221; by the Board of Inspection and Survey; members of its crew told Navy Times horror stories about weekends and holidays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems are just opportunities in which to excel</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/30/problems-are-just-opportunities-in-which-to-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/30/problems-are-just-opportunities-in-which-to-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You have to hand it to Rear Adm. Mark Buzby: Where another commander might have waited months to concede his fleet was dealing with apparently endemic equipment failures, Buzby came right out and announced it &#8212; and then used that announcement to brag about his team. Ships across Buzby&#8217;s Military Sealift Command have been having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSC trades up</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/26/msc-trades-up/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/26/msc-trades-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command&#8217;s oceanographic survey ships might not be as flashy as your high-speed, high-glamor T-AOEs, and they don&#8217;t carry the same air of romance and danger as the cable-repair ship  Zeus, but they nonetheless do a vital job: Charting the ocean floor to make sure American and allied ships have the best picture of [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>

		<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>The only one of its kind</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/30/the-only-one-of-its-kind/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/30/the-only-one-of-its-kind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The greenside]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5536</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s seabasing&#8217;s world, and we just live in it &#8212; or so some elements in the Pentagon and at Quantico might say. So, all right: Y&#8217;got a whole bunch of angry, face-painted Devil Dogs ashore on a hostile beach doing what they do best &#8212; chopping up bad guys and kicking up rooster-tails in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The T-AO with flags as black as the oil it carries</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/18/the-tao-with-flags-as-black-as-the-oil-it-carries/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/18/the-tao-with-flags-as-black-as-the-oil-it-carries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 19:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pirates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We take great pleasure in sharing the latest spoils from the Inbox of Excellence &#8212; live, no-foolin&#8217; photos of Military Sealift Command&#8217;s renegade oiler, the Leroy Grumman, flying not one &#8212; but two! &#8212; of its infamous Jolly Rogers. These shots might not win any of your fancy National Geographic photo-prizes, having come from rogue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The hospital ship of the future</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/04/the-hospital-ship-of-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/04/the-hospital-ship-of-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 18:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sea Air Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although Navy, Military Sealift Command and civilian officials have raved about the hospital ships Comfort and Mercy, they&#8217;re 25 years old and can be difficult to manage &#8212; their size (70,000 tons) and deep draft (about 30 feet) means they often must anchor in deep water and accept patients by air or boat. So we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/seven-in-seven-3/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/seven-in-seven-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NECC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ordnance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recruiting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The deckplates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The greenside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Middle East]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Navy nabbed a lot of headlines again this week. Leading the way is news that the Green Hornet on Thursday took to flight – the fighter jet, not the super hero. The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet was powered by a 50/50 blend of biofuel and JP-5. That same day, a U.S. military jury cleared a Navy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Chow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morale]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4744</guid>
		<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>March Madness &#8212; Navy style</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/08/march-madness-navy-style/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/08/march-madness-navy-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ordnance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Pacific]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[March was a busy month for the Global Force for Good. You&#8217;ve likely heard about the commissionings, the pummeling of pirates and all the other good tidbits. Here are a few highlights that may have slipped under your radar: The carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower launched nearly 620 combat sorties and flew more than 3,600 cumulative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When you care enough to send the very best</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/29/when-you-care-enough-to-send-the-very-best/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/29/when-you-care-enough-to-send-the-very-best/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it means absolutely nothing. Maybe it&#8217;s an unsubtle message: Of the vessels U.S. commanders sent in answer to South Korea&#8217;s request for help after their patrol ship Cheonan sank last week, three are Aegis warships and of those, two are ballistic missile defense-capable. Responding to the South Korean sinking are the BMD cruiser Shiloh; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unrep photo of the day</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/unrep-photo-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/unrep-photo-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s highly sought-after Ship Photography Prize goes to MC2 Daniel Barker, who turned in some clear, bright shots of the carrier Carl Vinson doing an underway replenishment March 18 with the fast combat support ship Rainier. Barker has captured what can be a dangerous, stressful evolution in a way that makes it look calm and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This week in seabasing, vol. 2</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/this-week-in-seabasing-vol-2/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/this-week-in-seabasing-vol-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The greenside]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a hot shot for all the crane fans out there: Check out this Large Vessel Interface, Lift-On/Lift-Off crane aboard the Military Sealift Command crane ship Flickertail State loading some ISO containers from the pier last week. To a small cadre of seabasing devotees in Washington and Quantico, this is just as sexy as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sea trials links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/sea-trials-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/sea-trials-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4242</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just-built, crash-back testin&#8217;, detect-to-engagin&#8217;, high-speed S-turnin&#8217;, missile-launchin&#8217; links, advising you to make sure your gear is stowed for sea and to prepare for a full power run toward the Web&#8217;s latest news: The hospital ship Comfort is back! Ex-Soviet Alfa-class attack subs could get their highest-profile job since the V.K. Konovalov hunted the Red October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy vice</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/17/navy-vice/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/17/navy-vice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead seemed very pleased this morning when he told Senate lawmakers that the littoral combat ship Freedom has made three drug busts in the four weeks it&#8217;s been at sea down in the 4th Fleet area of operations. All told, Freedom&#8217;s crew of sailors and Coast Guardsmen have seized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comfort comes home. Gators stay in place?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/09/comfort-comes-home-gators-stay-in-place/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/09/comfort-comes-home-gators-stay-in-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The hospital ship Comfort, which discharged its last patient Feb. 27, was released from the Haitian disaster assistance mission on Tuesday. Military Sealift Command officials think the big white ship will be back in Baltimore by March 14. That doesn&#8217;t mean the relief effort in Haiti is finished &#8212; not by a long shot &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This week in seabasing</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/04/this-week-in-seabasing/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/04/this-week-in-seabasing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[merchant ships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursdays get pretty hectic here at the Center of Excellence, what with looming deadlines for the print edition of Navy Times, but every week we rely on one thing to provide an oasis of calm: Naval Sea Systems Command&#8217;s regular email round-up of official press releases, known affectionately as the &#8220;NavSea News Wire,&#8221; which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aftermath</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/02/aftermath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE USNS COMFORT &#8212; This 70,000-ton, 894-foot floating hospital is out of hand sanitizer. The dispensers in the triage areas, the surgery and even along the bulkhead in the chow line wheeze when you press for a squirt of alcohol disinfectant, so crew members have taken to carrying their own pocket-sized bottles. The ship&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The old fashioned way, vol. 2</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/26/the-old-fashioned-way-vol-2/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/26/the-old-fashioned-way-vol-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3949</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re lucky enough to have the right connections in San Diego this weekend, here&#8217;s a great way to spend your Saturday: The Navy, Military Sealift Command and shipbuilder General Dynamics are planning to christen the latest dry cargo and ammunition ship, Charles Drew, and slide it down the ways &#8212; the way a ship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSC&#8217;s pirate oiler</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/23/mscs-pirate-oiler/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/23/mscs-pirate-oiler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3877</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tacked to the cubicle wall here at the Center of Excellence is one of Scoop Deck&#8217;s most prized mementos from a trip to sea: A simple paper pilot card from the Military Sealift Command oiler Leroy Grumman, describing what it calls the &#8220;ship&#8217;s particulars&#8221; a pilot needs to know to take the 677.5-foot oiler in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At last, a Shackleton at the South Pole</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/10/at-last-a-shackleton-at-the-south-pole/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/10/at-last-a-shackleton-at-the-south-pole/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton tried thrice to reach the South Pole and was thrice denied, but all his American descendant had to do to get there was step off a plane. Cmdr. Scott Shackleton, a U.S. Navy reservist, flew to Antarctica on Jan. 26 as part of a mission to resupply McMurdo Station [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seahawk sortie links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/25/seahawk-sortie-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/25/seahawk-sortie-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pirates]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sonar dippin&#8217;, Mk 54 torpedo droppin&#8217;, VERTREP cargo haulin&#8217;, Hellfire missile shootin&#8217;, humanitarian aid deliverin&#8217; links, standing by to fly you to the carrier for your lunch with the admiral, where you&#8217;ll probably get a lot of interesting updates like these: The hospital ship Comfort has about 1,000 beds, 80 intensive care wards, 12 operating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loading up</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/19/loading-up/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/19/loading-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3468</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Were you wondering exactly what &#8212; in terms of actual stuff &#8212; all these ships are taking to Haiti? In a case study, Military Sealift Command has given a thorough accounting for one of them. Here&#8217;s what the maritime prepositioning ship 1st Lt. Jack Lummus, now docked at Blount Island Command, Fla., is taking aboard, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Haitian port that still works</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/18/the-haitian-port-that-swill-works/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/18/the-haitian-port-that-swill-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At least three ships &#8212; the cruiser Bunker Hill and Military Sealift Command&#8217;s salvage ship Grasp and survey ship Henson &#8212; are on their way to Port-au-Prince to survey the earthquake damage to the port facilities there. The damage to piers and cranes from last week&#8217;s earthquake is complicating the delivery of U.S. and international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunset for San Jose and the T-AFS</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/18/sunset-for-san-jose-and-the-t-afs/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/18/sunset-for-san-jose-and-the-t-afs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The combat stores ship San Jose ended nearly four decades in the Navy and Military Sealift Command on Friday, in a ceremony that not only commemorated the end of its service, but the departure of all the fleet&#8217;s combat stores ships: San Jose will be deactivated from the Navy in January 2010 and is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work begins on new ship for&#8230; the Army? (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/18/work-begins-on-new-ship-for-the-army/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/18/work-begins-on-new-ship-for-the-army/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Naval Sea Systems Command announced Thursday that the Gulf Coast shipyard that built the littoral combat ship Independence had just started work on a new vessel &#8212; for the Army. Has the whole world, you ask, gone topsy-turvy? Dogs and cats living together&#8230; mass hysteria&#8230; NavSea issuing press releases about Army ships&#8230; Reclaim your grip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Royal Navy put its own auxiliaries out of business?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/09/will-the-royal-navy-put-its-own-auxiliaries-out-of-business/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/09/will-the-royal-navy-put-its-own-auxiliaries-out-of-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3006</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This could be nothing, or it could be huge &#8212; the Royal Navy used one of its aircraft carriers, the Ark Royal, to refuel and re-supply a frigate at sea last month. It could be just another training evolution, or it could be the first step to privatizing the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Britain&#8217;s equivalent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Ricks&#8217; ship name suggestions</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/12/tom-ricks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:15:36 +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=2461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Big-dog military analyst Tom Ricks, who blogs for Foreign Policy magazine, wrote Monday that he likes that Military Sealift Command&#8217;s next dry cargo and ammunition ship is to be named Medgar Evers. Inspired by the civil rights activist theme, he had some other suggestions for names for future Navy warships: Now, how about honoring a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Additions to the fleet</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/12/additions-to-the-fleet/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/12/additions-to-the-fleet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our senior Scoop Deckmate Christopher P. Cavas was in Philadelphia this weekend for the commissioning of the Navy&#8217;s latest Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the Wayne E. Meyer, which was looking fine all dressed up for the occasion. The Navy had hoped the ship&#8217;s namesake,  who led the team that developed the Aegis system back in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gas with cookies (updated)</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/11/gas-with-cookies/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/11/gas-with-cookies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The cruiser Anzio was clearly not the first replenishment at sea for the fleet oiler John Lenthall, seen here off the coast of Somalia. Quite a few ships have met up with Lenthall for a rendezvous before. The crew of the Anzio however, had the decency when it was over to tie a bag of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Their boat was lost, then a little Byrd brought it home</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/10/their-boat-was-lost-then-a-little-byrd-brought-it-home/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/10/their-boat-was-lost-then-a-little-byrd-brought-it-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, Scoop Deck wondered how a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo and ammunition ship &#8212; a big, deep-draft, fleet re-supply vessel &#8212; would do after taking over for a small-deck amphib on a U.S. humanitarian mission in the Pacific. Specifically it was Military Sealift Command&#8217;s Richard E. Byrd, which had to stand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The old-fashioned way</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/17/the-old-fashioned-way/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/17/the-old-fashioned-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something to be said for smashing a ship with a bottle of champagne, officially giving it a name, and sliding it backward down the ways into the water for the first time.]]></description>
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		<title>Underway replenishment links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/13/underway-replenishment-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/13/underway-replenishment-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SEALs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Palletized cargo carryin&#8217;, high-line riggin&#8217;, VERTREP stagin&#8217;, DFM pumpin&#8217;, fresh veggie deliverin&#8217; links, pulling along side and ready to match RPMs so you can take on news and information: The remains of Capt. Scott Speicher are to return Thursday to Florida, 18 years after he was shot down over Iraq in the first Gulf War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homecoming for a pirate brig</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/28/homecoming-for-a-pirate-brig/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/28/homecoming-for-a-pirate-brig/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a week of high-profile homecomings at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., with the hospital ship Comfort and the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower both scheduled to return this week from big-deal deployments to South America and the Persian Gulf, respectively. But another naval ship also was scheduled to come back to Norfolk on Tuesday &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dry cargo, ammunition, pirate brig, goodwill-bringing ships</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/22/dry-cargo-ammunition-pirate-brig-goodwill-bringing-ships/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/22/dry-cargo-ammunition-pirate-brig-goodwill-bringing-ships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=875</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command&#8217;s Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo and ammunition ships are already pretty versatile &#8212; they carry food, ammunition, fuel and other supplies for Navy strike groups &#8212; but these past few months have seen them take on even more missions. Back in Feburary, Lewis and Clark itself became the Navy&#8217;s floating brig and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The never-ending search</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/12/the-never-ending-search/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/12/the-never-ending-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As long as there are American fighting men and women who haven&#8217;t come home, even after decades, the military will continue to search for them.   There are almost 1,800 service members still unaccounted for in Vietnam, for example, where Military Sealift Command is lending a hand for the first time to help look for [...]]]></description>
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