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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Mine warfare</title>
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		<title>End of an era</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/06/end-of-an-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 7, 1970, the Beatles released their last single: &#8220;The Long and Winding Road.&#8221; Last week, the amphibious transport dock Ponce, launched 13 days after the song and commissioned in July 1971, completed its own long journey, coming home for the last time after four decades of service. Those years were filled with significant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4831</guid>
		<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 end of an era at Ingleside</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/27/the-end-of-an-era-at-ingleside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mine warfare]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a ceremony last week at the former Naval Station Ingleside, Texas, Navy officials returned the base to the Port of Corpus Christi, closing the book on one of the most unusual bases in the service. Ingleside was originally built &#8212; get this &#8212; as a homeport for the battleship Wisconsin, back in the 1980s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A towed array for LCS?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/25/a-towed-array-for-lcs/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/25/a-towed-array-for-lcs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mine warfare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The littoral combat ships weren&#8217;t designed with an onboard sonar because the Navy wanted LCS to use the sensors aboard its unmanned vehicles &#8212; including a remotely operated boat and submarine &#8212; but that, apparently, could be changing: Naval Sea Systems Command&#8217;s Underwater Warfare Center at Newport, R.I. has a request for proposal (pdf) out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When finite funds meet infinite needs</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/19/when-finite-funds-meet-infinite-needs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret the naval fleet has more gaps than O.J.&#8217;s alibi. The Navy is lacking surface vessels, especially amphibs. Submarine and aviation gaps are on the horizon. Even the carrier fleet will drop below requirements for at least three years beginning in 2012. Adding the crushing blow on this already sizable dog pile is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNA day 2: Proclamations and predictions</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/13/sna-day-2-proclamations-and-predictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After the second day of speeches, press avails and panel discussions, here are a few of the voices that attendees heard today at SNA, selected completely arbitrarily, with some statements and prognostications they made about the world as it is and the world to come: &#8220;Optimistically, we&#8217;re looking at a 275-ship Navy &#8212; which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNA: Not if, but when</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/13/sna-not-if-but-when/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retired Adm. Harry Ulrich, a former commander of Naval Forces Europe, gave a bleak prognostication during a panel discussion a few moments ago. A major maritime calamity is coming, he warned: &#8220;If you like the way people almost blow up airplanes &#8212; how are we doing with our seaports? Does anybody in this room know? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNA: Updates for the record</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/12/sna-updates-for-the-record/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last events are all done, the cocktails and finger-goods have been deployed in the exhibit areas, and Washington&#8217;s defense hacks have packed up their laptops and filed out of the building. At the conclusion of day one of the Surface Navy Association&#8217;s annual trade show, here are five of the latest dates, schedules and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White knuckles and buried treasure</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/17/white-knuckles-and-buried-treasure/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/17/white-knuckles-and-buried-treasure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  In what was sure to be a stomach-churning evolution, amphibious command ship Mount Whitney was refueled underway by the fleet oiler John Lenthall on June 12 in 12-foot seas and 40-mph wind in the Baltic Sea.  As one observer put it, Mount Whitney must have been pretty thirsty to pull that off. By way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yours, not mine</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/11/yours-not-mine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. 6th Fleet announced today that a service ship from Sweden&#8217;s navy discovered a &#8220;mine line&#8221; that might be &#8220;evidence of a minefield.&#8221; The find was made during Baltic Operations 2009 or BALTOPS. It&#8217;s not outside the realm, as 100,000 sea mines were laid between Sweden and Lithuania back in in WWI and WWII and of them, 60,000 [...]]]></description>
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