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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Ships</title>
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		<title>Rescue swimmers &#8230; are awesome</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/19/rescue-swimmers-are-awesome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amphibious operations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter what the service, military rescue swimmers are a pretty remarkable bunch. In addition to being skilled at their normal rating duties, they&#8217;re able &#8212; and willing &#8212; to be lowered into some pretty hair-raising situations that most normal folks would regard as out of the realm of possibility. The Atlantic waters looked to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of an era</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/06/end-of-an-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[6th Fleet]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 7, 1970, the Beatles released their last single: &#8220;The Long and Winding Road.&#8221; Last week, the amphibious transport dock Ponce, launched 13 days after the song and commissioned in July 1971, completed its own long journey, coming home for the last time after four decades of service. Those years were filled with significant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lasers on deck</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/29/lasers-on-deck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stop hostile skiffs with a zap. Down enemy drones, too. These are some of the selling points of a new shipboard solid-state laser. Boeing and BAE Systems received a $2.8 million contract to test the 10-kilowatt commercial laser installed onto the 25mm gun mount, which is used aboard ship, in 2012. After decades of development, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haze gray in Charm City</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/16/haze-gray-in-charm-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community relations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next year marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, and the Navy is helping the state of Maryland kick off its multi-year commemoration with a two-ship visit to Baltimore&#8217;s beautiful Inner Harbor. The war with Great Britain that gave us the Star-Spangled Banner and &#8220;Don&#8217;t give up the ship!&#8221; was declared on June [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy days and nights aboard Ike</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/19/busy-days-and-nights-aboard-ike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carrier qualifications]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Norfolk-based carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower is deep into the basic phase of pre-deployment training while underway in the Atlantic. Technically, it&#8217;s taking part in a Tailored Ship&#8217;s Training Availability and Final Evaluation Problem, or TSTA/FEP, and conducting carrier qualifications for Carrier Air Wing 7 fliers. Ike will be out for several weeks to come, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Army secretary jabs Navy ship program</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/11/army-secretary-jabs-navy-ship-program/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/11/army-secretary-jabs-navy-ship-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Army Secretary John McHugh gave the Navy &#8212; and in particular, its ship acquisition strategy &#8212; a poke in the ribs Monday at the annual Association of the U.S. Army meeting in Washington. According to CNN reporter Lisa Sylvester, McHugh took his shot in the context of the Columbus Day holiday: &#8220;But I’m a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I wonder what this button does?!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/06/i-wonder-what-this-button-does/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[7th Fleet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We couldn’t help but smile at the faces of these Russian boys, who got the chance to play sailor aboard the destroyer Fitzgerald during an outing from Parus Nadezhdy Children’s Rehabilitation Center in Vladivostok.  If we only knew what they were saying&#8230; The Yokosuka, Japan-based Fitzgerald wrapped up a four-day visit to Russia’s Pacific Fleet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haze gray and underway</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/27/haze-gray-and-underway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This simple yet atmospheric photo should resonate with anyone who&#8217;s ever been at sea &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Down and dirty</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/19/down-and-dirty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carrier On-Board Delivery plane]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower is underway in the Atlantic conducting carrier qualifications for naval aviators, but it&#8217;s the unglamorous and often tedious work below decks that keeps the fliers going. A zillion things can go wrong with an aircraft &#8212; especially aircraft that operate in a maritime environment and bounce onto aircraft carriers. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Littoral, not figurative</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/15/littoral-not-figurative/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/15/littoral-not-figurative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Littoral Combat Ship]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, folks. Scoop Deck doesn&#8217;t want to get into a whole thing here, but there&#8217;s something we have to say. Now that littoral combat ships are getting named, launching, deploying and being celebrated at baseball games, it&#8217;s time to get used to the word &#8220;littoral.&#8221; It&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;literal,&#8221; not &#8220;lit-TOR-al.&#8221; So the next time you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mabus makes good on winning pitch</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/14/mabus-makes-good-on-winning-pitch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9081</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Navy&#8217;s top official visited the National League Central Division&#8217;s top team Tuesday as Navy Secretary Ray Mabus threw out a ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game at Miller Park, part of a day-long celebration of Littoral Combat Ship 5 being given the name Milwaukee. The original announcement was made March 18. The Navy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home after the storm</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/31/home-after-the-storm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2nd Fleet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 27 ships that sortied out of Hampton Roads in advance of Hurricane Irene&#8217;s arrival last weekend began returning to Naval Station Norfolk and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek Tuesday and are continuing to come back throughout the week. Also returning to their berths are some of the 28 ships in various stages of maintenance [...]]]></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>
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		<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>That flag</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/08/02/that-flag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8793</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember a 1990-ish visit to a Japanese submarine base and being dumbfounded to see the subs flying the rising sun flag off their stern masts. Dumbfounded, because being, ahem, of a certain age, I associated the flag &#8212; a red disc with red and white &#8220;beams&#8221; extending outward &#8212; with the aggressive World War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good works in Jax</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/07/29/good-works-in-jax/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/07/29/good-works-in-jax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8768</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 40 sailors from the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower spent the morning of July 26 sprucing up a resource center for the homeless in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., during a three-day port call in Mayport that began July 25. The center, called Mission House, offers food and counseling services to the homeless in the Jacksonville [...]]]></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>
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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>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>
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		<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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		<title>Sea spray and sea trials</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/15/sea-spray-and-sea-trials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SURFLANT and the San Antonio wanted to tout what officials are calling a successful second phase of sea trials for the much-troubled ship, so they invited me and five other reporters and photogs to ride out from Rudee&#8217;s Inlet in Virginia Beach aboard an 11-meter RHIB Wednesday morning and conduct interviews on board as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ship that buried bin Laden</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/14/the-ship-that-buried-bin-laden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It&#8217;s gotta be at least a little frustrating. You&#8217;re just wrapping up a highly successful deployment and you&#8217;ve finally got a whole mess of reporters who want to talk to you about it. But they don&#8217;t. They want to talk about that. You know. That guy you buried at sea and now utterly defines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost back in the fleet</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/14/almost-back-in-the-fleet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower is underway for sea trials following a nine-month maintenance availability at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va. Ike&#8217;s planned incremental availability began last summer and was supposed to be done in March. It was extended into June due to major pump overhaul and unexpected winter storms, according to the Navy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom fades from gray to black</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/13/freedom-fades-from-gray-to-black/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s wrong with this picture? Freedom, the first littoral combat ship, has been in service for only two and a half years. But it’s lost that new ship shine.  Exhaust blackens the superstructure and the hull in this photo, taken June 7 while Freedom landed a helicopter as part of a joint maritime exercise. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One for the history books</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/10/one-for-the-history-books/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/10/one-for-the-history-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, it&#8217;s not a doctored photo. That&#8217;s two &#8212; TWO &#8212; San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships operating simultaneously. To be fair, two of the other three commissioned ships in the class are also at sea. Mesa Verde and Green Bay are deployed. New Orleans just completed sea trials following a scheduled maintenance period. New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; that&#8217;s Lincoln</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/31/im-thinkin-thats-lincoln/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/31/im-thinkin-thats-lincoln/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 14:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An eagle-eyed reader named &#8220;Mike&#8221; wrote us over the weekend to make an interesting point about the Navy&#8217;s photo illustration released the day the Navy announced that the second Gerald R. Ford-class carrier will be named in honor of John F. Kennedy. His point? That ain&#8217;t no Ford. &#8220;There’s plenty of renderings of the Ford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some good news, for a change</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/26/some-good-news-for-a-change/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/26/some-good-news-for-a-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 02:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The much-maligned amphibious transport dock ship San Antonio returned to Norfolk Thursday afternoon after 10 days of sea trials, and commanding officer Cmdr. Thomas Kait seemed like a very happy man during a press availability in his onboard cabin. &#8220;I would characterize it as an A-plus,&#8221; Kait told reporters. “I don’t know how many times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It still floats</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/23/it-still-floats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 16:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll let the picture tell the story: The carrier Theodore Roosevelt got underway Saturday for the first time in nearly two years when it left its dry dock at Newport News Shipbuilding and entered James River in southeast Virginia. The move comes in the midst of the carrier&#8217;s ongoing 39-month refueling complex overhaul, which began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back where it belongs &#8230; in the water</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/20/back-where-it-belongs-in-the-water/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/20/back-where-it-belongs-in-the-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 20:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty months in dry dock will end Saturday, May 21, when the carrier Theodore Roosevelt checks out of Dry Dock 11 at Newport News Shipbuilding (so nice to be able to use the simple name again, though we should note that the yard is a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries &#8230;) to a pierside location [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush to make first-ever overseas deployment</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/05/bush-to-make-first-ever-overseas-deployment/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/05/bush-to-make-first-ever-overseas-deployment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 18:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The vision that began with a January 2001 contract award will be fully realized on Wednesday, May 11, when the carrier George H.W. Bush leaves Norfolk to begin its first-ever combat deployment. The 1,092-foot Bush is the 10th and final carrier of the Nimitz class. Commissioned in January 2009, the carrier, as well as its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top ship-driver chosen</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/02/top-jo-ship-driver-chosen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 19:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a San Diego, Calif. trainer, over rounds of virtual underway replenishments, man overboards, and pierside moorings, the Navy’s top junior officer shipdriver emerged from a field of 28 finalists, the Navy announced Friday. And the 2010 winner is… Lt. j.g. Nicole Lobecker, assistant combat systems officer on cruiser Port Royal. “It was surreal,” Lobecker, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daly: Amphibious forces are more relevant than ever</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/01/daly-amphibious-forces-are-more-relevant-than-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/01/daly-amphibious-forces-are-more-relevant-than-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deputy commander of Fleet Forces Command used his keynote speech at the decommissioning of the amphibious assault ship Nassau in Norfolk March 31 to stump for continued support for the &#8220;Gator Navy&#8221; and the capability to launch U.S. Marines onto contested shore, arguing that such a capability reduces the need for U.S. bases on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Antonio: still pierside &#8212; but getting there</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/23/san-antonio-still-pierside-but-getting-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The amphibious transport dock Mesa Verde left its Naval Station Norfolk pier at 9:05 Wednesday morning as the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group began deploying to the Med and the Libya crisis. As it pulled away, its wake gently lapped up against the starboard-side hull of San Antonio, moored at the next pier over, in what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Navy strikes</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/21/8022/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navy ships and subs launched a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles at Libyan air defenses Saturday, including this one, filmed by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Sunderman, leaping skyward out of the Norfolk-based destroyer Barry. The strikes, and subsequent bomb attacks by U.S., French and British aircraft, followed the March 17 passage of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gobsmacked</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/12/06/gobsmacked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<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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		<title>New gun for hire</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/08/new-gun-for-hire/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/08/new-gun-for-hire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a look at the Navy&#8217;s new Flight IIA destroyer the Jason Dunham, a product of Bath Iron Works, Maine. The service is set to commission the Dunham on Saturday. The ship is named after Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham, who was killed by insurgents in Iraq in April 2004. He posthumously received the Medal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the winner is &#8230; both</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/04/and-the-winner-is-both/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/04/and-the-winner-is-both/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, in-house heavy hitter Chris Cavas broke the news that both Lockheed Martin and Austal USA have been waiting for all year, and both companies can be happy with it. After a year-long wait, the Navy will ask congress for permission to award both companies 10 LCS hulls. The service&#8217;s leadership thinks competition between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell, Saturn</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/28/farewell-saturn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There may not have been many of you &#8212; the former supply ship Saturn&#8217;s crew of 160 never included many more than 40 sailors during its 25-year run with Military Sealift Command &#8212; but here&#8217;s a respectful nod to you and your old ride, which was sunk in the Atlantic Wednesday after the George H.W. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every cruiser in the palm of your hand</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/21/every-cruiser-in-the-palm-of-your-hand/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/21/every-cruiser-in-the-palm-of-your-hand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s fun to geek out on cruisers, especially the Ticonderoga class. They&#8217;re not very subtle: 122 vertical-launched missiles, eight harpoons, six torpedoes and two 5-inch guns surrounded by more than 100 nautical miles of AN/SPY-1 radar coverage. But the Tico is only one class in a long line of big-gun cruisers. There was the 6,000-ton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a great big gator to take tiny sips</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/15/getting-a-great-big-gator-to-take-tiny-sips/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/15/getting-a-great-big-gator-to-take-tiny-sips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Efficiency is what&#8217;s hot these days in the surface Navy, and, as such, Naval Sea Systems Command has announced its latest effort to squeeze every last drop out of the fuel brought aboard the fleet&#8217;s Wasp-class big-deck amphibious ships. NavSea is putting new combustion trim loop systems in the engines aboard all seven of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mesa Verde plays pinch hitter</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/15/mesa-verde-plays-pinch-hitter/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/15/mesa-verde-plays-pinch-hitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The amphibious transport dock Mesa Verde, which just returned from a deployment to the Middle East in August, will head back out to the 5th Fleet area again this summer, taking a spot that was supposed to be filled by its older sibling, the San Antonio. San Antonio&#8217;s latest repairs probably won&#8217;t be finished in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fate of LCS, cont&#8217;d.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/14/the-fate-of-lcs-contd/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/14/the-fate-of-lcs-contd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:43:29 +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=6542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Galrahn has been reading a lot of news stories and think-tank studies and such lately, and he has come to this conclusion: The strategic winds are blowing such that the Navy&#8217;s littoral combat ship won&#8217;t survive the next infamous Pentagon budgetary rock-drill known as POM 12. That rock-drill will be keyed off a CNA study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aftermath and legacy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/12/aftermath-and-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/12/aftermath-and-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years after the bombing of the destroyer Cole, could a U.S. warship today handle a similar attack? Crew members today are more alert for small boats, ships have new weapons specifically to keep potential threats at bay, and the Navy seems generally more mindful about sending ships into ports where unpleasantness might occur. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten years gone</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/12/ten-years-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chief Electronics Technician Richard Costelow, Morrisville, Penn. Signalman Seaman Recruit Cheron Luis Gunn, Rex, Ga. Seaman James Rodrick McDaniels, Norfolk, Va. Seaman Recruit Lakiba Nicole Palmer, San Diego, Calif. Operations Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Lamont Saunders, Ringgold, Va. Ensign Andrew Triplett, Macon, Miss. Seaman Apprentice Craig Bryan Wibberley, Williamsport, Md. Hull Maintenance Technician 3rd Class, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new queen of the Lego seas</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/11/a-new-queen-of-the-lego-seas/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/11/a-new-queen-of-the-lego-seas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Way, way back in the early days of Scoop Deck, we wondered whether any Lego model could ever rival this 1/40 scale version of the Imperial Japanese Navy&#8217;s super-battleship Yamato. Now, something has: An entire Lego battle group, and one appropriately centered around that which eclipsed the battleship as the big-dog of the seas: An [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look inside the secret ship</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/06/a-look-inside-the-secret-ship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who knows what mysteries lie inside the aluminum skin of the Navy&#8217;s one-of-a-kind, experimental catamaran, the Sea Fighter? Who can say what kind of advanced, high-speed equipment they&#8217;ve got on that thing, or what undocumented capabilities are built into the ship? Soon, you will. Our senior colleagues Mark D. Faram and Christopher P. Cavas &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The warbird flexes its claws</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/29/the-warbird-flexes-its-claws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want the straight dope these days on what&#8217;s going on with the Navy&#8217;s newest and most unusual ship, you need to bring up its Facebook page. The littoral combat ship Independence has done its first refueling at sea, fired its main gun for the first time, and who knows what else, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the Navy close the flying boat gap?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/can-the-navy-close-the-flying-boat-gap/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/can-the-navy-close-the-flying-boat-gap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Zounds! That dastardly Chief Commander of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Mohammad Ali Jafari &#8212; he&#8217;s done it again! First he built a navy with 100 vessels for every one U.S. warship, then he built an indefatigable 60-knot attack craft and now, worst of all, he&#8217;s fielding entire squadrons of flying boats! That&#8217;s right: If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LCS joins the sonar club</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/lcs-joins-the-sonar-club/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/lcs-joins-the-sonar-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you no doubt remember from your March 15 edition of Navy Times, the Navy has been on the hunt for a variable depth sonar to field aboard the littoral combat ship. As you&#8217;re about to learn when you click here, now it has found one. Just one, for now, according to Defense News; Euro-defense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turbine trouble, module madness and positive thinking</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/24/turbine-trouble-module-madness-and-positive-thinking/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/24/turbine-trouble-module-madness-and-positive-thinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6350</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The littoral combat ship Freedom broke one of its main engines this month, our senior colleague Christopher P. Cavas reports, but the Navy is turning its frown upside down and using this as an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to excellence. (Or as they say at Naval Sea Systems Command: &#8220;Enabling a more potent force [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incurable smallness</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/20/incurable-smallness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why does the Navy hate small ships? It says it needs them &#8212; in glossy report after glossy report, the top leaders of the fleet say the Navy needs to operate in shallow water, close to shore, yadda yadda yadda. But what does it do? Decommissions an entire class of coastal minehunters; marginalizes the surviving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auto dog</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/20/auto-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navy Times writer Phil Ewing and I learned a nickname for a popular machine on board the carrier Enterprise recently &#8212; the &#8220;Auto Dog,&#8221; aka the soft-serve ice cream machine. The term has been in the fleet for years, but it was new to me, and it took me almost a full 24 hours to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The mod squad</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/16/the-mod-squad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the crew of the destroyer John Paul Jones posing last week with their ship in dry dock, before it was floated back out into San Diego Bay. Although a couple of cruisers, including Bunker Hill, have undergone the mid-life modernization treatment, JPJ is one of the first destroyers to have it done. The ship [...]]]></description>
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