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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; ordnance</title>
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		<title>Farewell, Saturn</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/28/farewell-saturn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There may not have been many of you &#8212; the former supply ship Saturn&#8217;s crew of 160 never included many more than 40 sailors during its 25-year run with Military Sealift Command &#8212; but here&#8217;s a respectful nod to you and your old ride, which was sunk in the Atlantic Wednesday after the George H.W. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Television with stopping power</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/24/television-with-stopping-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our senior Marine Corps Times colleague Gina Cavallaro, author of the hot new book &#8220;Sniper: American Single-Shot Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan,&#8221; scored a highly coveted guest spot on Washington&#8217;s top weekly defense news TV show, &#8220;This Week in Defense News.&#8221; You&#8217;ll be able to see her Sunday morning at 11 a.m. here in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the sonobuoy drop no more?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/22/will-the-sonobuoy-drop-no-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as Big Navy is pushing for the fleet to re-master the lost art of submarine-hunting, one of its longstanding ASW tools could be going away, according to our friends in the big-time at Defense News: Commanders are considering pulling the sonobuoys from MH-60 Seahawk helicopters, or  scaling back the number they will carry. &#8220;Sonobuoys!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Gun System hits milestone</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/28/advanced-gun-system-hits-milestone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 14:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An artist&#8217;s rendition of the the AGS at work. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead in an interview with Navy Times last month voiced his commitment to providing Marines precision littoral fire support. We&#8217;re looking at rounds that give us extended range and are compatible with 5-inch guns. Precision is going to be key. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An interesting item in the NOC</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/27/an-interesting-item-in-the-noc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 12:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a delicate item: An Amphibian Associate of ours and his eagle-eyed readers have spotted something hilarious in the new Naval Operations Concept, but it&#8217;s borderline scatological. It involves the glossy pictures that take up much of the document and the salty language common among average sailors out in the fleet. That&#8217;s probably all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surface gun battle &#8212; the old fashioned way</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/19/surface-gun-battle-the-old-fashioned-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 15:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So how did the sailors of yesteryear figure out where to point their guns to make sure they reached out and touched the targets on the other end? This classic film, posted online earlier this year, gives you the full story, in the way only a 1950s U.S. Government educational presentation could. Double H/T: BoingBoing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The LCS missile may still fly</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/13/the-lcs-missile-may-still-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 14:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Non-Line Of Sight missile may live to fly after all, according to an exclusive report this week by our high-powered colleague Kate Brannen. NLOS, an Army missile also intended as a key weapon for the littoral combat ship, costs too much and doesn&#8217;t really work, according to the Army officials who have asked the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Army decision that could de-fang LCS</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/23/the-army-decision-that-could-defang-lcs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4784</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We warned you about it &#8212; now it could be happening for real. Our compatriot Kate Brannen of Defense News reports today that the Army has recommended canceling its own Non-Line Of Sight missile program because the weapon has proved too expensive and too unreliable in its early iterations.That doesn&#8217;t just affect the ground-poundoisie: NLOS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/seven-in-seven-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Navy nabbed a lot of headlines again this week. Leading the way is news that the 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>Dealing with the small boat threat</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/13/dealing-with-the-small-boat-threat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many loose threads across the Internet from the past couple of days about the infamous Small Boat Threat, which has been a part of fleet planning since the days of E-Boats and long before. On Monday, an article in Taiwan&#8217;s Straits Times described a new Taiwanese fast-attack craft designed as a &#8220;carrier killer,&#8221; [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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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>CIWS beefed up, looking littoral</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/07/ciws-beefed-up-looking-littoral/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/07/ciws-beefed-up-looking-littoral/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a radar-guided 20mm Gatling gun spitting out 4,500 armor-piercing tungsten rounds per minute, and a 100-percent kill distance in the realm of eight miles, what’s badder than a MK15 Phalanx Close-in Weapon System? An upgraded MK15 Phalanx Close-in Weapon System. Raytheon on March 31 was awarded a $204 million to beef up 32 CIWS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The belt-and-suspenders approach</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/the-belt-and-suspenders-approach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mk38 mod 2 chain gun is designed to be operated remotely, from the safety of the bridge, but if necessary a sailor can still grab the gun and open fire. A pair of photos this week showed both sides of the job: Above, STG1 Drew Collins prepared the port-side gun on the cruiser Bunker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling with CNO &#8212; Trident Training (pt 2)</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-cno-trident-training-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-cno-trident-training-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon took a day trip with Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead this week. This is the play-by-play report. 1015 We are treated to a quick review of A/C repair – a very important facet of sub life. Not only for reasons of comfort, but for the fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling with CNO &#8212; Trident Training</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-cno-trident-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon took a day trip with Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead this week. This is the play-by-play report. Sailors assigned to the guided-missile submarine Florida practice skills controlling the boat in the Ships Control Team Trainer at the Trident Training Facility in Kings Bay, Ga. (photo by MTCS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with the &#8216;Hurt&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/08/dealing-with-the-hurt/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/08/dealing-with-the-hurt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s unfortunate that &#8220;Hurt Locker&#8221; nabbed the Oscar for Best Picture. Not because the film, from a cinematic perspective, was unworthy. Indeed, its cast and crew certainly exceeded expectations in their respective professions. And Scoop Deck is thrilled that Kathryn Bigelow broke the barrier and nabbed the first top prize for a female director (beating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bravo Zulu to EOD</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/03/bravo-zulu-to-eod/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/03/bravo-zulu-to-eod/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporting from the fourth annual Naval Expeditionary Forces Symposium and Expo &#8230; Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Stebbins, executive officer of EOD Mobile Unit 6, is giving the EOD scoop. He is a mustang with a wealth of knowledge in gunnery, parachute ops and all things that go boom. And he brings a remarkable and commendable report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New chain gun to help frigate do its job</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/03/new-chain-gun-to-help-frigate-do-its-job/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/03/new-chain-gun-to-help-frigate-do-its-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of either politeness or cognitive dissonance, the Navy has continued to refer to its frigates as &#8220;FFGs,&#8221; even after all the ships in the class lost their Mk 13 missile launchers &#8212; the famous &#8220;one-armed bandit&#8221; &#8212; along with the SM-1 surface to air missiles that earned them the &#8220;G&#8221; for &#8220;guided missile.&#8221; That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See NLOS in action &#8230; kind of</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/24/see-nlos-in-action-kind-of/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/24/see-nlos-in-action-kind-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of the littoral combat ship&#8217;s Non Line Of Sight missile&#8230; have you ever wondered what it would look like if a U.S. warship used a surface-to-surface missile to kill two guys on a Jet-Ski? Thanks to this promotional computer-animated video from the Archive of Excellence, you need wonder no more.]]></description>
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		<title>Could LCS lose its missile?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/23/could-lcs-lose-its-missile/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/23/could-lcs-lose-its-missile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3869</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though the Navy is very proud that the littoral combat ship Freedom is underway right now in the Caribbean patrolling for smugglers, there are many parts of the LCS concept still in the works. The wham-o-dyne, helicopter-mounted, super-gun that will blow up mines, for example, is still under development, as are the Non Line [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/12/sna-updates-for-the-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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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>Pre-SNA: Warships&#8217; new menu of missiles</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/11/pre-sna-warships-new-menu-of-missiles/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/11/pre-sna-warships-new-menu-of-missiles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this very moment, deep within a certain hotel near Washington&#8217;s National Airport, a wonderland is under construction. Workers are setting up scale model destroyers, some of them with tiny SM-3 missiles depicted in mid-launch, complete with pretend flames. Glossy hand-outs &#8212; depicting ships, aircraft, and ground vehicles all operating simultaneously around peninsulas, linked together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small gadget, huge consequences</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/05/small-gadget-huge-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/05/small-gadget-huge-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazing what you can find on these social-networking pages these days &#8212; Naval History and Heritage Command reports on Facebook that 67 years ago Tuesday, the cruiser Helena fired the Navy&#8217;s first proximity-fuzed anti-air shell and downed a Japanese dive-bomber in World War II. So the shell had a different fuze, so what? According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lest we forget &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/31/lest-we-forget/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/31/lest-we-forget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Joel &#8220;Bubblehead&#8221; Kennedy, who reminds us of the 50th anniversary of the commissioning of USS George Washington (SSBN 598), the first ballistic missile submarine. What must it have been like to be there July 20 1960, when the skipper sent a burner 1,100 miles downrange, then sent President Eisenhower the message: POLARIS &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to shoot a battleship&#8217;s gun? Time&#8217;s running out!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/29/want-to-shoot-a-battleships-gun-times-running-out/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/29/want-to-shoot-a-battleships-gun-times-running-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get it right out of the way: No, it&#8217;s not one of the 16-inch guns. Yes, disappointing. But! If you&#8217;re willing to fork over the cash, you can buy the right to fire one of the 5-inch guns aboard the battleship New Jersey at midnight on New Year&#8217;s Eve, to ring in the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recognition for a Navy disaster</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/29/recognition-for-a-navy-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/29/recognition-for-a-navy-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From our colleagues up in The Show comes an interesting story about a piece of naval history finally recognized: This fall, the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial became a full-fledged member of the National Park System, meaning park rangers, more funding, and the whole treatment for the site of the Navy&#8217;s worst home-front disaster. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retire the nuke Tomahawk? It wouldn&#8217;t take much</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/14/retire-the-nuke-tomahawk-it-wouldnt-take-much/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/14/retire-the-nuke-tomahawk-it-wouldnt-take-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3034</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Galrahn at Information Dissemination comes a link to an intriguing post at ArmsControlWonk that advocates for the Navy to retire the nuclear Tomahawk land attack missile &#8212; known as the TLAM-N inside the Puzzle Palace &#8212; because it&#8217;s old and we don&#8217;t need &#8216;em anymore. Specifically, the nuclear variant of the missile doesn&#8217;t come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A U.S. commander &#8216;sinks&#8217; the George Washington</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/08/a-u-s-commander-sinks-the-george-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/08/a-u-s-commander-sinks-the-george-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2999</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Naval egg-heads inside the Beltway and anyplace else people know the term &#8220;pacing threat&#8221; have been noodling over an alternate-future-history piece in the recent edition of the Foreign Policy Research Institute&#8217;s magazine Orbis, in which a Navy scholar describes how the Chinese &#8220;sunk&#8221; the carrier George Washington. The piece, &#8220;How The United States Lost the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marine artillerymen name for effect</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/03/marine-artillerymen-name-for-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/03/marine-artillerymen-name-for-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE DOCK LANDING SHIP FORT MCHENRY – I never get tired of meeting and talking to sailors, but as we all know from the PowerPoint presentations in the Pentagon, the world is joint now. On the Horn of Africa we met airmen, soldiers, Marines and even a few rare-gem Coast Guardsmen, which meant that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missile hits missile. Again.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/31/missile-hits-missile-again/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/31/missile-hits-missile-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago we posted about an upcoming ballistic missile intercept test from the destroyer Hopper in the Pacific. According to the Missile Defense Agency it was a success, recorded on video. It was the 19th successful test of the seagoing Aegis-BMD system out of 23 attempts. Details. Hitting a ballistic missile with another missile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hopper in SM-3 test</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/29/hopper-in-sm-3-test/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/29/hopper-in-sm-3-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Scoop Deck has learned that the destroyer Hopper will take part in a ballistic missile intercept test on Thursday off Hawaii.  Unlike the land-based interceptor tests also conducted by the Ballistic Missile Defense program, the Standard Missile-3 is shot out of vertical launch missile tubes aboard AEGIS-equipped warships during the seaborne BMD tests. Like previous tests [...]]]></description>
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