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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Royal Navy</title>
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		<title>You think we&#8217;ve got budget woes?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/02/you-think-weve-got-budget-woes/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/02/you-think-weve-got-budget-woes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. budget battle threatens to put a serious crimp in Pentagon spending. But when the dust settles somewhat, here&#8217;s guessing the Navy will likely still be able to defend the nation&#8217;s coastlines and meet most of today&#8217;s overseas commitments. But budget cuts and the strain of the war in Libya have already left cash-strapped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2,000 Tomahawks and counting</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/05/2000-tomahawks-and-counting/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/05/2000-tomahawks-and-counting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Combat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norfolk Naval Station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8839</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Navy today commemorated its 2,000th Tomahawk cruise missile combat launch during a ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk aboard the destroyer Barry, which took part in the March air strikes on Libyan military facilities in support of U.N. Resolution 1973 and was credited with the 2,000th launch. Check this great pic of a launch from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a real FRUKUS</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/21/its-a-real-frukus/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/21/its-a-real-frukus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Counter-piracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime interdiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Officers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, we haven&#8217;t lost our sense of decorum here at Scoop Deck. FRUKUS 2011 is an invitational naval exercise now underway off the Virginia coast involving ships from Russia, France, the U.K. and the U.S. Navy. &#8220;FRUKUS&#8221; is an acronym for all four nations &#8212; we&#8217;re guessing it rhymes with RUCKUS, which means a commotion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell, Saturn</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/28/farewell-saturn/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/28/farewell-saturn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ordnance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6876</guid>
		<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>A rough week for Her Majesty’s navy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/22/a-rough-week-for-her-majestys-navy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/22/a-rough-week-for-her-majestys-navy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6780</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By any measure, the Royal Navy has had a rough week. In the span of three days, the Brits cut their flagship carrier, the Ark Royal, reduced their fleet to its smallest size in centuries and, now, has run its nearly $5.5 billion nuclear submarine Astute into the mud near Scotland&#8217;s Isle of Skye. Reports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of British seapower, cont&#8217;d.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/08/the-end-of-british-seapower-contd/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/08/the-end-of-british-seapower-contd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Could the entire Royal Navy shrink to a force smaller than the U.S. Navy&#8217;s ship-population of Norfolk, Va.? That&#8217;s the warning coming this week from New Austerity Britain, where the navy brass has offered to &#8220;mortgage everything&#8221; in order to save its beloved pair of Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers: The Royal Navy fleet could consist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Submarines continue to exist</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/30/report-submarines-continue-to-exist/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/30/report-submarines-continue-to-exist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So have you heard about how all these different countries out there have ships that can actually go under the water, not just drive, y&#8217;know, on top of it? &#8220;Submarines,&#8221; they&#8217;re called, and, apparently, the hot new thing right now is for one navy&#8217;s submarines to try to find and follow another navy&#8217;s subs. Crazy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8216;dangerously weak&#8217; Royal Navy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/23/a-dangerously-weak-royal-navy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/23/a-dangerously-weak-royal-navy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Royal Navy is spiraling down a whirlpool, according to an unsurprising new report making waves in the British press, and if the fleet looses any more ships and sailors (say, as the result of major, austerity-driven cuts) the United Kingdom will effectively stop being a sea power. Today&#8217;s Royal Navy is already &#8220;inadequate for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Royal Navy&#8217;s fighter jets</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/18/the-royal-navys-fighter-jets/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/18/the-royal-navys-fighter-jets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6001</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what Royal Navy fixed wing aviation looked like back in the good old days. Special note: The Fairey Gannet will blow you away when it spreads its wings at 2:25. Navies all over the world have it tough these days, and here&#8217;s how bad things have gotten for the Royal Navy: According to The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome home links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/05/welcome-home-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/05/welcome-home-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5850</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The destroyer Farragut pulled in to Naval Station Mayport, Fla. this week after a high-profile deployment that included fighting pirates, awesome high-speed runs, and even a time-traveling visit from its namesake. So today&#8217;s links are for DDG 99 baby, as Ice Cube might have said. Remember the mystery of what damaged the oil tanker M [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[The Pacific]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5585</guid>
		<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>The faceless men</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/18/the-faceless-men/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/18/the-faceless-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE HMS ARK ROYAL &#8212; My colleague Colin Kelly snapped this surreal image of a damage control drill on the ship&#8217;s elegant quarterdeck. Over the roar of the wake under the fantail &#8212; Ark Royal was almost at full power to get wind over the deck for flight ops &#8212; sailors trained for how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merlin helicopter links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/16/merlin-helicopter-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/16/merlin-helicopter-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sonar dippin&#8217;, torpedo droppin&#8217;,  medium-lift mission flyin&#8217;, links, with plenty of legroom and no unpleasant hydraulic fluid leaking from the overheads: Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has been called up to the show: The White House wants him to knock off all this silly Navy stuff and start preparing a high-profile, long term Gulf Coast &#8220;recovery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The civilized way to go to sea</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/15/the-civilized-way-to-go-to-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/15/the-civilized-way-to-go-to-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The deckplates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE HMS ARK ROYAL &#8212; In my many happy years as an alcohol enthusiast, I have never had a beer as refreshing as the pint of John Smith&#8217;s Extra Smooth I enjoyed in the wardroom after a day of inhaling Harrier exhaust and clambering over almost every inch of this ship, from keel to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steady on</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/15/steady-on/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/15/steady-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE HMS ARK ROYAL &#8212; Deep below the flight deck and its distinctive &#8220;ski jump,&#8221; a set of engineers has a full-time job keeping the runway of this floating airport as level possible. The problem is, it just doesn&#8217;t want to say that way. Ark Royal&#8217;s flight deck is well above the waterline, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A carrier with a British accent</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/15/a-carrier-with-a-british-accent/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/15/a-carrier-with-a-british-accent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE HMS ARK ROYAL &#8212; When we Americans think &#8220;carrier,&#8221; we get a mental picture of being in a small sailboat off Cape Henry, looking over and suddenly seeing the Enterprise bearing down like a steel mountain, blocking out the sun, going on for days like the Imperial Star Destroyer from the opening moments [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Flag matters</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/04/flag-matters-2/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/04/flag-matters-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a great excuse to trot out one of the neatest fun facts about today&#8217;s Navy: The destroyer Winston S. Churchill, as a rare American warship named for a foreign personage, is also the rare U.S. ship that can fly a foreign ensign &#8212; the Royal Navy&#8217;s iconic White Ensign, to be precise, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stopping the trans-Atlantic drug-sub trade</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/01/stopping-the-transatlantic-drug-sub-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/01/stopping-the-transatlantic-drug-sub-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5282</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all grown familiar with stories about self-propelled semi-submersibles, the homemade underwater or surface-skimming craft that cocaine smugglers use to try to get drugs out of Colombia. These fiberglass narco-subs are usually built by hand in the jungle, carry a few tons of dope, and sound like they provide a really hot, cramped, unpleasant ride [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Sorry, chief, I&#8217;m not qualified in metric line-handling&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/19/sorry-chief-im-not-qualified-in-metric-line-handling/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/19/sorry-chief-im-not-qualified-in-metric-line-handling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 18:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5086</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or maybe it&#8217;s not that different after all &#8212; when the Royal Navy carrier Ark Royal docked for a port visit in Norfolk on Friday, these American sailors discovered you don&#8217;t seem to need any special skills to handle lines for a foreign warship. Ark Royal is in the U.S.  as part of Operation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Navy denies central sea monster archive</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/17/royal-navy-denies-central-sea-monster-archive/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/17/royal-navy-denies-central-sea-monster-archive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 14:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5053</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do the archives of the Royal Navy include volume after gilt-edged volume detailing secret encounters between Her Majesty&#8217;s warships and horrifying sea creatures? Do archivists in catacombs deep below Whitehall maintain stacks of leather-bound books with reports about ships battling giant squid, or sea dragons, or the dreaded kraken? Are there pages upon pages of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/30/seven-in-seven-4/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/30/seven-in-seven-4/#comments</comments>
		<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>The softer side of seapower</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/21/the-softer-side-of-seapower/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/21/the-softer-side-of-seapower/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:16:00 +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=4732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Gordon Brown&#8217;s critics have called it a publicity stunt, Britain&#8217;s ferry operators have complained it cuts into their business, but it&#8217;s happening &#8212; Dunkirk 2 is on. The Royal Navy amphibious transport dock Albion picked up 300 Britons this week who had been stranded in Spain by the enormous no-fly zone created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frigate patrol links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/20/frigate-patrol-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/20/frigate-patrol-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smuggler chasin&#8217;, Coast Guard law enforcement detachment carryin&#8217;, unmanned aerial vehicle testin&#8217;, submarine huntin&#8217; links, which can survive anything you throw at them &#8212; from a mine to an Exocet missile &#8212; to bring you the latest info from the Web: The Navy is changing its body fat rules for sailors, and Navy Times wants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Navy to the rescue in Dunkirk 2: Electric Boogaloo</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/19/royal-navy-to-the-rescue-in-dunkirk-2-electric-boogaloo/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/19/royal-navy-to-the-rescue-in-dunkirk-2-electric-boogaloo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:42:45 +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=4687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has sortied the fleet &#8212; three Royal Navy ships are on their way to rescue the throngs of Britons trapped in Europe by Mount Doom Eyjafjallajokull, which, as you&#8217;ve been hearing, has created an air-travel nightmare on the continent. The aircraft carrier Ark Royal and the amphibious ships Ocean and [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Commonwealth navies links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/12/commonwealth-navies-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/12/commonwealth-navies-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tea-drinkin&#8217;, &#8220;cheers&#8221;-sayin&#8217;, Bovril-eatin&#8217;, short pants-wearin&#8217;, pirate-fightin&#8217;, boomerang throwin&#8217; links, helping you say &#8216;g&#8217;day&#8217; to naval developments around the world: The Royal Navy doesn&#8217;t need carriers after all, a former Defence Staff chief said this week, and instead it should build more small ships to grow its fleet. England&#8217;s Prince Philip, Duke of Edinborough &#8212; Queen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fade out</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/19/fade-out/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/19/fade-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3835</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The plight of the Royal Navy today has been building for a very long time, according to a recent book that recounts the story of the modern service from 1957 until now. From the very first pages of &#8220;Safeguarding the Nation&#8221; &#8212; an account of the Senior Service by the White Ensign Association, a U.K. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falklands War 2 on the horizon? Nah. Well&#8230; nah.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/19/falklands-war-2-on-the-horizon-nah-well-nah/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/19/falklands-war-2-on-the-horizon-nah-well-nah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Great Britain and Argentina are in another tiff these days, centering &#8212; again &#8212; on the U.K.&#8217;s tiny island possessions in the South Atlantic. The British (and everyone else) call them the Falklands; the Argentines call them las Malvinas. The last time these two nations got into a big tiff over the islands, 28 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three services in one? What color would the uniforms be?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/04/three-services-in-one-what-color-would-the-uniforms-be/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/04/three-services-in-one-what-color-would-the-uniforms-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In addition to Anglophilia and a frank admiration for the tremendous heritage of Nelson, Jellicoe, et al.,  Scoop Deck likes to write about the Royal Navy because a case could be made that it represents a possible future for the U.S. Navy. Cut, shrunk, starved, downsized and sometimes humiliated over the past 30 years, today&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nelson&#8217;s flagship endures</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/02/nelsons-flagship-endures/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/02/nelsons-flagship-endures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally, the Olympics would be of absolutely zero interest to Scoop Deck, but a story today out of Great Britain &#8212; site of the 2012 summer games &#8212; includes a neat item: Organizers want to use the games, and a bureaucratic reshuffling in the Ministry of Defence, to attract Olympics visitors in London down to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti rescue links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/20/haiti-rescue-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/20/haiti-rescue-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Heavy-lift helo flyin&#8217;, cargo pallets loadin&#8217;, well deck floodin&#8217;, LCU launchin&#8217;, force-for-good-bein&#8217; links, anchored offshore and ready to deliver the latest updates on the biggest Navy amphibious operation since Inchon. The U.S. is sending a second amphibious ready group to join the one already on station off Port-au-Prince and delivering shipments of food and medicine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A fleet decays, worse than &#8216;prison&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/04/a-fleet-decays-worse-than-prison/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/04/a-fleet-decays-worse-than-prison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Royal Navy&#8217;s carrier Ark Royal put to sea for its most recent set of exercises, the British admiralty probably had no idea how much news the ship would make: First people worried it would put the Royal Fleet Auxiliary out of business, then it became the first British warship on Twitter, and now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zeal does not rest, but it does Tweet</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/30/zeal-does-not-rest-but-it-does-tweet/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/30/zeal-does-not-rest-but-it-does-tweet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many great Twitter feeds from commands throughout the fleet &#8212; for example, just pulling a few random samples from the Twitter Feed of Excellence, you can follow the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard and the carriers Harry S. Truman and Nimitz. Tweeting, however, is apparently something new over in the Royal Navy, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under-ice operations links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/11/under-ice-operations-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/11/under-ice-operations-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Silent runnin&#8217;, enemy SSBN huntin&#8217;, upward-looking sonar pingin&#8217;, Ice Station Zebra findin&#8217;, &#8220;Nautilus 90-North&#8221; sendin&#8217; links, ordering you to surface the ship and for all hands to prepare to carry these headlines topside, onto the pack: PACOM commander Adm. Robert Willard says he thinks China will field its first aircraft carrier by 2015 &#8212; coincidentally, [...]]]></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>All that sweet, sweet beer!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/03/all-that-sweet-sweet-beer/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/03/all-that-sweet-sweet-beer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chow]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck doesn&#8217;t mind admitting a weakness for an ice-cold brewski every once in awhile during the off-duty hours, and as such, found this item shocking: The U.S. Army reportedly destroyed 7,000 cans of beer that were the former property of the Royal Navy in Iraq. After the Americans took over a British base in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polar icebreaker links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/30/polar-icebreaker-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/30/polar-icebreaker-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ice-crushin&#8217;, channel clearin&#8217;, back-and-forth rockin&#8217;, long voyage takin&#8217;, high visibility links, breaking a path to you for the latest stories and updates on the Web: Pirate attack: Somali hijackers have seized a Greek oil tanker, the Maran Centaurus, bound for New Orleans with a full cargo. Last word was that a Greek frigate is shadowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK to sell 1 carrier to India?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/16/uk-to-sell-1-carrier-to-india/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/16/uk-to-sell-1-carrier-to-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The shipbuilding future of the Royal Navy has grown so bleak that new stories about what could happen to it have almost lost their ability to dismay. After the Ministry of Defence raised the possibility that it could delete the ability to handle F-35B Lightning II fighters from one of its future aircraft carriers, now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Port visit links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/13/port-visit-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/13/port-visit-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Restricted maneuvering doctrine settin&#8217;, ATM cash-withdrawin&#8217;, rail mannin&#8217; links, eager to tie up, race down the brow and get into the bars town as quickly as possible: After a triumphant visit and commissioning in its namesake city, the amphibious transport dock New York, like so many other newcomers to the Big Apple, is taking refuge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scratch one Royal Navy carrier &#8212; sort of</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/26/scratch-one-royal-navy-carrier-sort-of/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/26/scratch-one-royal-navy-carrier-sort-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:33:26 +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=2600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it the first step toward the Royal Navy losing its new carriers? Or is it a compromise that will ensure they&#8217;ll both be built? Those seem to be the two options after the announcement Sunday that the Royal Navy is willing to delete the capability to handle F-35B Lightning IIs from one of its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy lift helo links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/21/heavy-lift-helo-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/21/heavy-lift-helo-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Big, loud, heavy, smelly, hydraulic fluid drippin&#8217;, cargo carryin&#8217;, mine sled dredgin&#8217; links, getting ready to touch down on the flight deck and unload these updates: The crew of the cruiser Anzio &#8212; which you met a few weeks ago here on the Deck &#8212; made life unpleasant for some drug smugglers in the Gulf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limeys light &#8216;em up 2: Limeys light &#8216;em up again</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/29/limeys-light-em-up-2-limeys-light-em-up-again/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/29/limeys-light-em-up-2-limeys-light-em-up-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2350</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone not enjoy seeing the Royal Navy interdict drug smugglers, seize their contraband, then shoot up their vessels and sink them? If you don&#8217;t like it, don&#8217;t watch this video of the British frigate Iron Duke&#8217;s latest coup &#8212; the biggest cocaine seizure in Royal Navy history &#8212; which includes some pretty motivational footage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Brown&#8217;s SSBN situation</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/25/gordon-browns-ssbn-situation/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/25/gordon-browns-ssbn-situation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2323</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown&#8217;s support for eliminating one of the Royal Navy&#8217;s four Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarines isn&#8217;t just a British issue anymore &#8212; there are reports about it from all around the world, including here in the States. The latest one to catch our attention was this editorial in the Wall Street Journal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airborne early warning links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/11/airborne-early-warning-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/11/airborne-early-warning-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chiefs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2123</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bow catapult launchin&#8217;, air-searchin&#8217;, combat air patrol-vectorin&#8217;, friend-or-foe identifyin&#8217; links, orbiting high above the strike group to alert you in advance about these items on the Web: The reef-ization of the destroyer Arthur W. Radford, which you learned about awhile ago here on the Deck, is reportedly going to be &#8220;a big deal&#8221; for Maryland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Hampshire home from Europe</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/22/new-hampshire-home-from-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/22/new-hampshire-home-from-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Virginia-class attack submarine New Hampshire returned today to  its homeport of New London, Conn., after its maiden voyage.  New Hampshire operated in the European Command area and took part in the UK&#8217;s Joint Warrior &#8212; formerly known as Neptune Warrior &#8212; exercise. Other Virginia-class boats have done short first deployments to the 4th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limeys light &#8216;em up</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/22/limeys-light-em-up/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/22/limeys-light-em-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The crew of the Royal Navy frigate Iron Duke ruined the afternoon of some suspected drug smugglers this week, when it interdicted their boat, arrested them, and then sank their vessel. The BBC has some great video of the Iron Duke&#8217;s sailors going to town on the suspects&#8217; vessel with their cannons and machine guns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. frigate: Rum&#8217;s on us, constable</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/20/u-s-frigate-rums-on-us-constable/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/20/u-s-frigate-rums-on-us-constable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ooo gaws thee-ahh? What tribute bring ye before the dread pow-ah of this Towah?&#8221; The British press reports didn&#8217;t include a transcript of this weekend&#8217;s Constable&#8217;s Dues ceremony at the Tower of London, but that&#8217;s how it would&#8217;ve begun if Scoop Deck were in charge. However the script reads, the crew of the frigate Halyburton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torpedo attack links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/20/torpedo-attack-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/20/torpedo-attack-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Royal Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Flood tubes one and three, spin up the weapons, match bearings and check out these links, ready to let a little water into that surface target: They&#8217;re pumped out in Hawaii that the state&#8221;s eponymous attack submarine will arrive this week, in time for statehood celebrations. The crew of the fast-attack submarine Toledo was, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failure to (re)launch</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/15/failure-to-relaunch/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/15/failure-to-relaunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1315</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a steady cascade of reports out of Great Britain about a lack of support for Royal Navy involvement in the next iteration of the Trident missile submarine. The argument is that with likely threats not coming from an actual country that can be punched back with a sea-launched ballistic missile, scarce dollars, if spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The problems pile on</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/30/the-problems-pile-on/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/30/the-problems-pile-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No need to keep dwelling on it, but the Royal Navy just cannot catch a break. Reports in the British press today say that the U.K.&#8217;s two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers will cost £1 billion more than planned, an additional expense that could force some unpleasant decisions on the Ministry of Defence. British defence officials [...]]]></description>
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