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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Personnel</title>
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		<title>Navy spouses assail sailor cuts</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/20/navy-spouses-assail-sailor-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/20/navy-spouses-assail-sailor-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ERB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[layoffs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navy spouses upset with the latest round of sailor cuts are going on the offensive with a new video released Monday. The 5-minute-long video challenges the Navy’s rationale for sending home 2,947 sailors next year and urges viewers to sign a petition started a day before. The video quotes Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jon [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>NWUs: Good enough for POTUS</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/21/nwus-good-enough-for-potus/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/21/nwus-good-enough-for-potus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personnel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uniforms]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At a Nov. 4 ceremony in Cannes, France, honoring the U.S.-French alliance, President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy reviewed troops from both nations. Amid them, standing at attention, front and center, was a formation of sailors in blue-and-gray NWUs. The fleet has often complained that the off-base restrictions on NWUs are too tight: [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Did you survive the ERB?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/15/did-you-survive-the-erb/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/15/did-you-survive-the-erb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenn Rafael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personnel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Staff writer Mark D. Faram reported Monday that results of the first enlisted retention board have hit the streets, and petty officers third and second class in 31 overmanned ratings are finding out their fate. And this is only the first round: Those considered by the second ERB, sailors E-6 through E-8, won’t be notified of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shipping over in style</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/14/shipping-over-in-style/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/14/shipping-over-in-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenn Rafael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chiefs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a favorite re-enlistment ceremony? Maybe a family member or VIP swore you in. Maybe the location was historically significant. Or maybe you were being circled by sharks at the time. Although he wasn&#8217;t defying death while raising his hand, Senior Chief Aviation Electrician&#8217;s Mate (AW) Mukunda-Krishna Tyson of Patrol Squadron 1 likely [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Recognition for &#8220;above and beyond&#8221; IAs</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/09/recognition-for-above-and-beyond-ias/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/09/recognition-for-above-and-beyond-ias/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fleet Forces Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[individual augmentees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 90,000 sailors have served in individual augmentee assignments &#8212; largely in Iraq, Afghanistan and environs &#8212; and Tuesday, Fleet Forces Command launched a web site honoring those who&#8217;ve &#8220;performed above and beyond the call of duty.&#8221; The site pays tribute to the 1,416 IAs awarded the Bronze Star, the 10 given the Bronze [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Home for Dad&#8217;s day</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/18/home-for-dads-day/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/18/home-for-dads-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homecoming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Norfolk Naval Station]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The destroyer Stout came home to Norfolk Saturday following a Med cruise in support of theater security operations and ballistic missile deterrence &#8230; &#8230; and just in time for Father&#8217;s Day: Stout took part in the coalition strikes on Libyan forces that began in mid-March. Stout was the first ship on station and fired multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Saving lives this summer</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/20/saving-lives-this-summer/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/20/saving-lives-this-summer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 13:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marine Corps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mishaps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naval Safety Center]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Announcements of annual safety campaigns may for many go in one ear and out the other, but the Naval Safety Center&#8217;s summer campaign, which officially begins Memorial Day weekend, is an opportunity for Navy leaders to hit the deckplates and hammer home the message that it&#8217;s possible to have fun without taking life-threatening risks. Last [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A success story, and a lesson learned</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/30/a-success-story-and-a-lesson-learned/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/30/a-success-story-and-a-lesson-learned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Board of Inspection and Survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fleet Forces Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gator Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maintenance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, the dock landing ship Oak Hill was in poor shape &#8212; and that&#8217;s by the Fleet Forces Command chief&#8217;s reckoning. Beginning in 2005, five deployments in five years, no time for maintenance and inadequate manning had left the relatively young ship with a degraded power plant, endemic corrosion and a whole lot [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Getting safer</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/29/getting-safer/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/29/getting-safer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class A mishaps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naval aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naval Safety Center]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Privately owned vehicles]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Officials have to be encouraged at the trend toward a safer on- and off-duty Navy, indicated by near-mid-year Naval Safety Center statistics. We type those words with a big &#8220;knock on wood,&#8221; of course. But with the fiscal year &#8212; which began Oct. 1 &#8212; nearly halfway gone, it&#8217;s looking like the Navy is shaping [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;XO Movie Night&#8217; videos are out &#8230; all of them</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/04/xo-movie-night-videos-are-out/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/04/xo-movie-night-videos-are-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admirals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Enterprise]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Investigation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you probably know by now, Adm. John Harvey of Fleet Forces Command on Thursday unveiled the results of his investigation into the controversial “XO Movie Night” video skits aired on the carrier Enterprise from 2005 to 2007, recommending that secretarial letters of censure be issued to two admirals and two of the carrier’s former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honors: Should he stay, or go?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/02/02/honors-should-he-stay-or-go/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/02/02/honors-should-he-stay-or-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Board of Inquiry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Detachment for Cause]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We reported in our print edition this week (dated Feb. 7) that Fleet Forces Command chief Adm. John Harvey has recommended Capt. Owen Honors be detached for cause.  As those in the service know, that&#8217;s not separation from the Navy, but the formal completion of the administrative process of removing him from command of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>CHANGE TO U.S. NAVY EARLY RETIREMENT PROGRAM &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/18/change-to-u-s-navy-early-retirement-program/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/18/change-to-u-s-navy-early-retirement-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7670</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; but not really. Had to add the disclaimer &#8230; retirement benefits are a mighty touchy topic. But while it&#8217;s got some age on it now, this is a priceless spoof we found on Facebook: CHANGE TO U.S. NAVY EARLY RETIREMENT PROGRAM SUBJ: CHANGE TO U.S. NAVY EARLY RETIREMENT PROGRAM A. PERSONNEL MANUAL, COMNAVINST M1000.6(SERIES) [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fleet Forces Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7578</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gobsmacked</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/12/06/gobsmacked/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/12/06/gobsmacked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fleet Forces Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those with a particularly British cultural literacy know the meaning of this great slang term, but for the rest of us (including yours truly), &#8220;gobsmacked&#8221; means &#8220;utterly astounded.&#8221; It also describes the reaction of Yeoman 2nd Class (SW) Lucien Gauthier, whose post to a U.S. Naval Institute blog recounts his amazement that a four-star fleet [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The cyber-troops of tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/04/the-cyber-troops-of-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/04/the-cyber-troops-of-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personnel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6443</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a challenge for today&#8217;s high-tech, super-joint Navy: How do you attract a cadre of &#8212; let&#8217;s be honest here &#8212; nerdy, perhaps less-martial computer experts that will stick around to pay back the time and money required to train them in the arcane cyber-disciplines that none of us understand? A 1980s-style movie montage immediately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Navy suffers its latest cyber attack</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/19/the-navy-suffers-its-latest-cyber-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/19/the-navy-suffers-its-latest-cyber-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personnel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The threat-warning receivers at 10th Fleet have got to be wailing this morning after the Navy endured its latest computer-network attack: Information Week has included Navy Personnel Command&#8217;s website on a list of 12 government pages that it calls  &#8220;shocking examples of bad user experience.&#8221; (So, wait, does that also mean that Naval Administration Messages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilot wash-down links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/08/pilot-wash-down-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/08/pilot-wash-down-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personnel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a brutally hot week here in the National Capital Region. Cars are getting trapped in the asphalt as it liquefies; birds are bursting into flames in mid-air; and on Wednesday we had to turn off all the lights here at the Center of Excellence in order to forestall a blackout. Y&#8221;know what would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/21/seven-in-seven-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been another busy week for the Navy. Here are seven stories in seven minutes from the past seven days that are worthy of notice: 1. Defense Bill passes HASC. This bill has tons of important stuff – far too much to put in this blog. You can check Monday’s edition of Navy Times for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gates claims sanity</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/20/gates-claims-sanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second time in as many weeks, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has publicly proclaimed his own sanity. Or at least that he is &#8220;not crazy.&#8221; The first happened May 7 when he told reporters: I may want to change things, but I&#8217;m not crazy. I&#8217;m not going to cut a carrier, OK?&#8221; The comment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporter&#8217;s Notebook: CNO @ Heritage Foundation</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/14/reporters-notebook-cno-heritage-foundation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 15:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date: May 13, 2010 Location: Heritage Foundation, Washington D.C. Subj: CNO comments In a speech and response to questions offered at the Heritage Foundation Thursday, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead urged fiscal responsibility yet downplayed talk of further cuts to Navy ships and programs. He agreed with Defense Secretary Robert Gates&#8217; call for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/30/seven-in-seven-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:23:56 +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 subs are now officially open to women. In other career news, the active duty master chiefs list was released. The Coast Guard is holding its ground in the oil spill – and against critics. and the Army cancelled the Non-Line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/16/seven-in-seven-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:45:35 +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 Navy’s 10th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock will be named for Rep. John Murtha – a story first reported by Scoop Deck’s own Phillip Ewing. An unfortunate T-39 crash killed four in Georgia also made headlines, as did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day aboard Truman &#8212; departure</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/30/a-day-aboard-truman-departure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon just completed a 24-hour embark aboard the carrier Harry S Truman. This is the play-by-play.   Brown shirts and officers from the HS-7 Dusty Dogs prepare their Seahawks for service in anticipation of a busy day. (Photos by Lance M. Bacon) 0830 Scoop Deck is hanging out on Vulture’s Row, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day aboard Truman &#8212; Biggest Losers</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/30/a-day-aboard-truman-biggest-losers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon just completed a 24-hour embark aboard the carrier Harry S Truman. This is the play-by-play.   2130 Walking through Truman’s passageways, it’s not hard to see that today’s Navy is fit. The hanger bay’s dozen treadmills are in constant use. The “seaside gym” has a dozen other machines in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day aboard Truman &#8212; the XO</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/30/a-day-aboard-truman-the-xo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon just completed a 24-hour embark aboard the carrier Harry S Truman. This is the play-by-play. Truman&#8217;s XO knows it’s the sailors who make the difference, and he has some strong initiatives to take care of them, their families and their Navy. (Photo by Lance M. Bacon) 2030 Fresh out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling with the CNO &#8212; Fort Jackson</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-the-cno-fort-jackson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:25:52 +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. 1440 We’ve left Georgia and arrived in South Carolina. The scenery is much the same. The humidity is much the same. The bugs look a little bigger. But the biggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A solution for stolen valor</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/17/a-solution-for-stolen-valor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems fake SEALs, POWs and medal recipients are spreading like a virus. The latest is Steven Douglas Burton, who showed up at his 20-year high school reunion as a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel – and sporting a Navy Cross. You can read about it here. Navy Times certainly has covered its share of fakers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diversity council to meet in San Diego</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/11/diversity-council-to-meet-in-san-diego/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 11th semi-annual Fleet Diversity Council will be held April 7 in sunny San Diego. The event is part of the Navy&#8217;s diversity initiatives. It is open for all interested military government personnel, with a strong emphasis on regional naval bases such as Point Loma, San Diego, Coronado, NAS North Island and Balboa medical center. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California needs the blue-green team to tame its kids</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/03/california-needs-the-blue-green-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The skills learned by sailors and Marines &#8212; keeping cool under intense stress; learning to master impenetrable bureaucracies; enduring the daily threat of personal danger &#8212; make them great teachers, California state officials say. Well, they didn&#8217;t say that exactly, but California and the Defense Department are promoting the idea that sailors and Marines become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naval Expeditionary Forces Symposium underway</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/02/naval-expeditionary-forces-symposium-underway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[True to the nature of the sailors and officers who comprise the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, the fourth annual Naval Expeditionary Forces Symposium and Expo opened Tuesday morning in Virginia Beach with the announcement that two key speakers would be absent. They had been called away to meet emerging tasks – but two replacements were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;ve got mail!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/03/theyve-got-mail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck just spent an awesome week with the hard-working staff at Navy Personnel Command in Millington, Tenn. You’ll be seeing the fruit of this visit in coming editions of Navy Times. In the meantime, here are a few comments that really caught our attention: “We receive and process 7 million record updates annually.” – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The military is really expensive</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/26/the-military-is-really-expensive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some great factoids from a presentation this morning at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments given by Todd Harrison, their senior fellow for defense budget studies. They&#8217;re all interesting, but if you don&#8217;t have time, here&#8217;s what you need to know: Running the Navy, and the rest of the military services, costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;CAPT Titus ROCKS!!!!&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/18/capt-titus-rocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Tilghman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some friends of a fired CO are rallying support online. Check out this Facebook page named &#8220;Support Capt. John Titus,&#8221; in honor of the commanding officer of the Navy Supply Corps School who was relieved of command on Jan. 8. The page creators want people to send letters of endorsement to the chief of naval [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNA: The cost of doing business</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/15/sna-the-cost-of-doing-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some great &#8220;data points&#8221; &#8212; as they call them in the Pentagon &#8212; about the enormous amounts of money it takes to run the world&#8217;s most powerful Navy. They come from PowerPoint slides presented by Rear Adm. Philip Cullom, director of fleet readiness for the Navy Staff: If you&#8217;ve ever wondered where the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A sailor surge in Afghanistan?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/02/a-sailor-surge-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first blush, it might not seem like the Navy would be much affected by President Obama&#8217;s announcement last night that he is sending 30,000 more troops to land-locked Afghanistan by next year. But there are thousands of mountain sailors across Afghanistan, and it seems likely that more could begin deploying there as part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vectors. Found, and lost.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/27/vectors-found-and-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Some things are just motivating, like the last few words of the Star Spangled Banner, sacks of cash, hot steak sandwiches and of course, the Five Vector Model. The Scoop Deck staff is on an eternal search for reliable sightings of the Five Vector Model and yes, we found another one, pictured above. It was in Groton. Here is one example we keep in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN discovers skepticism of &#8220;Global Force for Good&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/20/global-force-skeptic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How influential are Navy Times readers like you? When CNN wanted to hear what no-kidding Navy people thought about the sea service&#8217;s new recruiting slogan, &#8220;America&#8217;s Navy, a Global Force For Good,&#8221; the network quoted posts on Navy Times&#8217; forums that showed, for the most part, today&#8217;s sailors aren&#8217;t quite captivated by it. CNN&#8217;s Lou [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to decelerate your life, become a force for good</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/30/time-to-decelerate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re thinking of joining the Navy, be advised: When you enlist, your life will proceed at the same speed at which it&#8217;s currently traveling. But on the other hand, you will go from being a neutral recruit to a global force for good. That&#8217;s right: The Navy is pulling back &#8220;Accelerate Your Life&#8221; as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk to the chairman. Just not from your work PC</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/21/talk-to-the-chairman-just-not-from-your-work-pc/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/21/talk-to-the-chairman-just-not-from-your-work-pc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen is all about making connections on the inter-tubes &#8212; he&#8217;s on Twitter, he&#8217;s on the new Defense.gov, he&#8217;s on Facebook &#8211; he&#8217;s the onlineiest chairman in the history of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His latest initiative is a kind of virtual all-hands call, for which he wants you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fleet Forces wants to hear from you on manning. So do we</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/18/fleet-forces-wants-to-hear-from-you-on-manning-so-do-we/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/18/fleet-forces-wants-to-hear-from-you-on-manning-so-do-we/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like Adm. John Harvey, head of Fleet Forces Command, wasn&#8217;t kidding when he blogged about wanting to hear from sailors about the Navy&#8217;s big issues: He&#8217;s asking how many people you think your command needs, as compared to the number it has now. Manning is one of the top questions in today&#8217;s fleet &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August is Snipe Month</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/14/august-is-snipe-month/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/14/august-is-snipe-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Faram</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a Navy snipe, then August is your month. That&#8217;s because on Aug. 31, 1842, the first enlisted engineering ratings &#8212; fireman and coal heaver &#8212; were created. Steam technology was in its early days at sea when the Navy built it&#8217;s second steam ship, the Fulton II, in 1837. And sailors would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Try not to breathe the air</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/02/1638/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAMP LEMONIER, DJIBOUTI &#8211; A putrid haze is settling over the base tonight, making an already uncomfortably humid evening all the worse. Djibouti City&#8217;s landfill is just over a wall adjacent to the camp, and Djiboutian sanitation officials have evidently deemed it their policy to burn the city&#8217;s garbage every night, apparently in open pits. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe the chief ate all five vectors</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/23/maybe-the-chief-ate-all-five-vectors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be that you couldn&#8217;t swing a dead cat and not hit a Five Vector Model. But it&#8217;s been a few years without a single dead cat/5vM mishap.  Once everywhere, now vapor. Once always in arm&#8217;s reach, now gone on a midnight train to Georgia. Above please find one of the last confirmed sightings of a 5vM, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A pregnant midshipman graduates: What do you think?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/21/a-pregnant-midshipman-graduates-what-do-you-think/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/21/a-pregnant-midshipman-graduates-what-do-you-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People on and off the web are talking about this Naval Academy story from last week: A midshipman was granted a waiver to graduate in May and be commissioned as an ensign, even though she was pregnant at the time. That&#8217;s normally against the rules: No midshipman is permitted to be married or be responsible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fireman 3rd Class John Dillinger</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/06/fireman-3rd-class-john-dillinger/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/06/fireman-3rd-class-john-dillinger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Dillinger, the cop-murdering, bank-robbing sociopath who stole America&#8217;s heart, is back in the public consciousness thanks to Johnny Depp&#8217;s mesmerizing performance as Dillinger in Michael Mann&#8217;s new movie &#8220;Public Enemies.&#8221; In addition to a hardscrabble upbringing and an early predilection for rebellion, one of the major factors that made Dillinger into the super-criminal he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MCPON&#8217;s July 4 message: Hiiii-YAH!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/30/mcpons-july-4-message-hiiii-yah/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/30/mcpons-july-4-message-hiiii-yah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strike that &#8212; it&#8217;s actually &#8220;Hooyah.&#8221; In his message to the fleet for the Independence Day holiday, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (SS/SW) Rick West encouraged sailors to &#8220;take every possible precaution (including watching out for others) whether you&#8217;re driving, riding a motorcycle, on the water or staying at home with fireworks and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squared away or sloppy. You decide.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/26/squared-away-or-sloppy-you-decide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, then-Surface Force Master Chief (SW/AW) Michael Schanche put out a message (second item) about a trip to the waterfront in San Diego that left him &#8220;professionally embarrassed&#8221; for the first time in his career. He expressed dismay at an overall lack of military bearing, courtesies and good appearance. A year has passed and Navy Times decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy counselors everywhere!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/15/the-straight-scoop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Faram</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from Chicago! Navy Times staff writer Mark Faram is at the 21st Annual Navy Career Counselor&#8217;s Symposium this week, getting the straight scoop on everything impacting your career. Check back for news and blog items from the conference. If there&#8217;s anything you would like to have us find out while we&#8217;re here, just send [...]]]></description>
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