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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; SEALs</title>
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		<title>We should all live so long &#8212; and well</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/31/we-should-all-live-so-long-and-well/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/31/we-should-all-live-so-long-and-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amphibious operations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reaching 100 years of age is remarkable enough. But the Navy made it extra special for a former Navy Seabee Dec. 2. Retired Capt. James R. Mims, the nation&#8217;s oldest living Seabee, was made an honorary member of Amphibious Construction Battalion 2 by the unit&#8217;s top sailor, Command Master Chief (SCW) Johnny DeSarro, during Mims&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rudy&#8217;s one-liners</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/27/rudy-the-card/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retired Master Chief Rudy Boesch earned more than a few laughs Friday during his remarks at the East Coast SEALs&#8217; celebration of the SEALs&#8217; 50th anniversary (the West Coast SEALs marked it two weeks ago), both centered around his post-SEAL Team 2 days. The 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act helped spark the 1987 formation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New oldest Frogman – and that’s no bull</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/26/new-oldest-frogman-%e2%80%93-and-that%e2%80%99s-no-bull/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/26/new-oldest-frogman-%e2%80%93-and-that%e2%80%99s-no-bull/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admirals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Aug. 22 retirement of Adm. Eric T. Olson marked the end of the Navy SEAL officer’s 38-year naval career – and the passing of the title of longest-serving SEAL. Olson, a 1973 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, became a SEAL officer in 1974, an achievement that led to a storied career and command [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A unit by any other name &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/17/a-unit-by-any-other-name/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/17/a-unit-by-any-other-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 06:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The trouble with secret military units – the type the U.S. government refuses to acknowledge even exist,  like, say, Delta Force or Area 51 – is this: Just how is the public, including the news media, supposed to identify them accurately if there is no official logo or name? Without it, chances are good that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A good day for a swim?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/29/no-day-at-the-beach/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/29/no-day-at-the-beach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is just something about Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training that is, well, photogenic. The grueling, six-month training course at the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado, Calif., is no vacation at the beach. Mother Nature at times makes it much more interesting. With ocean temperatures in the mid-60s – that’s relatively mild for the Pacific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did a SEAL submarine McChrystal?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/23/did-a-seal-submarine-mcchrystal/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/23/did-a-seal-submarine-mcchrystal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Pentagon probe has cleared retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his former senior aides of having uttered the ungentlemanly remarks that brought down his career, reports say. So who did make them, or at least some of them? A Navy SEAL officer, according to the New York Times: The Army review has been turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cause and effect</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/22/cause-and-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cause: Effect: A SEAL sniper in Virginia Beach, Va., demonstrated last week what could happen to your head &#8212; as represented here by a watermelon mounted on a dummy &#8212; if the United States of America doesn&#8217;t like you.]]></description>
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		<title>Power projection points to pending problems</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/17/power-projection-points-to-pending-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/17/power-projection-points-to-pending-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time ever, all four guided missile subs are deployed to an AOR. We’re not talking about being underway at the same time, and sea trials don’t count. We’re talking about being on the tip of the spear. For you strategists out there, that equals a combined 616 Tomahawk cruise missiles on station, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/07/seven-in-seven-5/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/07/seven-in-seven-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 15:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Defense Secretary Robert Gates dropped the bomb of the week. In his first invitation to the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space symposium, Gates suggested a need for cutting carriers, sinking SSBN(X) and eliminating Expeditionary Fighting Vehicles. You can read Gates&#8217; speech here,  and find out how this affects you in Monday’s edition of Navy Times. Speaking of amphibious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEALs tighten ties with India</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/26/seals-tighten-ties-with-india/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/26/seals-tighten-ties-with-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this  month, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead visited the naval forces of India to strengthen the maritime partnership. Now, the SEALs are getting in on that action. The Indian newspaper The Telegraph reported today that the cruiser Shiloh, destroyers Chaffee and Lassen, frigate Curts, attack submarine Annapolis, two P3C Orions and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New theory in sinking of South Korean ship</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/new-theory-in-sinking-of-s-korean-ship/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/new-theory-in-sinking-of-s-korean-ship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that many in the South Korean military and government have cast a suspicious, if not accusatory eye at their neighbor to the north regarding last month&#8217;s sinking of a corvette that left 46 dead. Moments ago, the South Korean newspaper Choson Ilbo reported that some military officials are now focusing their attention on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/seven-in-seven-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Navy nabbed a lot of headlines again this week. Leading the way is news that the Green Hornet on Thursday took to flight – the fighter jet, not the super hero. The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet was powered by a 50/50 blend of biofuel and JP-5. That same day, a U.S. military jury cleared a Navy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the admiral doesn&#8217;t care to elaborate</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/15/when-the-admiral-doesnt-care-to-elaborate/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/15/when-the-admiral-doesnt-care-to-elaborate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:25:15 +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=4650</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Instructions for torturing Pentagon reporters: 1. Bring in four-star admiral &#8212; say, Naval Forces Europe commander Adm. Mark Fitzgerald, for a very rare sit-down with the Puzzle Palace hackoisie. 2. Have someone ask him a question about uses for the Navy&#8217;s guided-missile submarines, or SSGNs (or &#8220;goomers,&#8221; as we tried, and failed, to get people [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/17/a-solution-for-stolen-valor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4207</guid>
		<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>Hoo-ya, U.S. water polo-playing community</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/16/hoo-ya-u-s-water-polo-playing-community/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/16/hoo-ya-u-s-water-polo-playing-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recruiting]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All right, let&#8217;s get right to the heart of this thing: Water polo. Does anyone have any idea what it is? Until an hour ago the answer would likely have been no. But today is your lucky day, water polo, because according to this story, you just became the stairway to Naval Special Warfare. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Claus loves the Navy, and vice versa</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/18/santa-claus-loves-the-navy-and-vice-versa/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/18/santa-claus-loves-the-navy-and-vice-versa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although this might rankle some people down in Millington, there are other global forces for good on this planet besides the Navy. There is, for one, Santa Claus, the one-man international, integrated present-transport and joy-delivery enterprise, whose operational tempo usually peaks around this time of year. Being separate global forces for good, however, doesn&#8217;t mean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEALs, subs, carriers, DDGs save day. No dolphins, though</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/01/seals-subs-carriers-ddgs-save-day-no-dolphins-though/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/01/seals-subs-carriers-ddgs-save-day-no-dolphins-though/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t seen it, the Navy has released the second commercial in its new &#8220;Global Force For Good&#8221; campaign &#8212; sort of. The video is for display online only, according to Navy Recruiting Command, and it covers the &#8220;kinetic&#8221; side (as they say in the Pentagon) of global good-doing. In the spot, SEAL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber-citizens back SEALs</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/27/cyber-citizens-back-seals/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/27/cyber-citizens-back-seals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEALs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the social media world, there&#8217;s growing disbelief over the detainee abuse allegations against three Navy SEALs, which came to light this week. The three were charged in connection with the alleged abuse of the purported mastermind of the 2004 ambush in Fallujah, in which four contractors from Blackwater were hanged and burned. After the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy&#8217;s new missile blows something up</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/17/navys-new-missile-blows-something-up/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/17/navys-new-missile-blows-something-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:58:56 +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=2832</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, to have been crouching in the mud with the U.S. and British special operators earlier this month when they called in a &#8220;time-critical strike&#8221; from the cruiser Princeton. It was just an exercise, according to a Navy announcement, but it still must&#8217;ve been pretty cool to see them dial in the thunder with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underway replenishment links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/13/underway-replenishment-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/13/underway-replenishment-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palletized cargo carryin&#8217;, high-line riggin&#8217;, VERTREP stagin&#8217;, DFM pumpin&#8217;, fresh veggie deliverin&#8217; links, pulling along side and ready to match RPMs so you can take on news and information: The remains of Capt. Scott Speicher are to return Thursday to Florida, 18 years after he was shot down over Iraq in the first Gulf War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s take 3 for space shot</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/10/its-take-3-for-space-shot/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/10/its-take-3-for-space-shot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  It&#8217;s probably a good thing that NASA&#8217;s pool of astronauts include quite a few military officers. Who better to understand the &#8220;hurry up and wait&#8221; lifestyle that is the military? We told you last month about preparations for the planned June 13 launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, whose seven-member crew of space sailors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military space geeks, take note</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/05/military-space-geeks-take-note/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/05/military-space-geeks-take-note/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the final week counting down to the scheduled launch of space shuttle Endeavour, whose seven-member crew of space sailors is yet another &#8220;purple&#8221; multi-service representation, including a Navy SEAL. Endeavour is scheduled for a 7:17 a.m. EDT liftoff on Saturday, June 13, from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The 16-day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be careful with that thing!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/04/be-careful-with-that-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/04/be-careful-with-that-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Navy&#8217;s photo site: &#8220;Special Warfare Operator 1st Class (SEAL) Robert Darakjy, assigned to the U.S. Navy Parachute Team the Leap Frogs, shows a display M4 assault rifle to a Washington Wild Things baseball fan.&#8221; Cinephiles seeing this image will immediately think of the Hollywood masterpiece &#8220;Starship Troopers,&#8221; one of the greatest terrible movies [...]]]></description>
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