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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Shore duty</title>
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		<title>Getting safer</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/29/getting-safer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class A mishaps]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Naval Safety Center]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Officials have to be encouraged at the trend toward a safer on- and off-duty Navy, indicated by near-mid-year Naval Safety Center statistics. We type those words with a big &#8220;knock on wood,&#8221; of course. But with the fiscal year &#8212; which began Oct. 1 &#8212; nearly halfway gone, it&#8217;s looking like the Navy is shaping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The long flight back to Washington</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/22/the-long-flight-back-to-washington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:51:02 +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=5464</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even the most grizzled military reporters here at the Center of Excellence are in shock this morning over the up-and-ready scandal to which everyone in Washington blinked awake this morning: President Obama has recalled the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, over what sounds like one corker of a profile in the forthcoming issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An interesting item in the NOC</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/27/an-interesting-item-in-the-noc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 12:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a delicate item: An Amphibian Associate of ours and his eagle-eyed readers have spotted something hilarious in the new Naval Operations Concept, but it&#8217;s borderline scatological. It involves the glossy pictures that take up much of the document and the salty language common among average sailors out in the fleet. That&#8217;s probably all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soggy start for the big show</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/03/soggy-start-for-the-big-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 13:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sea Air Space]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Navy League&#8217;s annual Sea Air Space defense trade show is getting underway today in a gilded hotel south of Washington, and, just like last year, it&#8217;s a miserable, rainy morning outside. But it could be worse &#8212; take a look at the picture of Naval Support Activity Mid-South in Millington, Tenn., which was hammered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of an era at Ingleside</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/27/the-end-of-an-era-at-ingleside/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/27/the-end-of-an-era-at-ingleside/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mine warfare]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a ceremony last week at the former Naval Station Ingleside, Texas, Navy officials returned the base to the Port of Corpus Christi, closing the book on one of the most unusual bases in the service. Ingleside was originally built &#8212; get this &#8212; as a homeport for the battleship Wisconsin, back in the 1980s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The day they left open the door to the goat locker</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/20/the-day-they-left-open-the-door-to-the-goat-locker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:41:47 +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=4728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a reason the Naval Academy&#8217;s mascot is Bill the Goat, and the chief&#8217;s mess is called the Goat Locker &#8212; the goat is a fearsome animal that destroys everything in its path, and is a fine model for the stubbornness that Navy life requires. How perfect, then, that officials at Naval Base Kitsap have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day aboard Truman &#8212; Unsung Heroes</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/30/a-day-aboard-truman-unsung-heroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon just completed a 24-hour embark aboard the carrier Harry S Truman. This is the play-by-play.   1800 Scoop Deck has laid down the challenge. We have a couple of open hours, and we want to spend them with some deck plate leaders, some sailors who are never in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell us what you think: Atlantic v. Pacific</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/25/tell-us-what-you-think-atlantic-v-pacific/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At lunch in the crew&#8217;s mess last summer aboard the destroyer Decatur, which was guarding the oil platforms in the northern Persian Gulf, something was just&#8230; different. The sailors had the same uniforms as the rest of the Navy, their ship was basically identical to the scores of other destroyers in the fleet, but there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Operation New Dawn:&#8221; Thoughts?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/19/operation-new-dawn-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/19/operation-new-dawn-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re heading out to the sandbox as an individual augmentee, or your ship is going to be up in the Persian Gulf supporting operations in Iraq, you&#8217;ve got to get in as many references as you can to &#8220;Operation Iraqi Freedom,&#8221; because that&#8217;s going away. Oh-Eye-Eff, as we colloquially say, will become Oh-Enn-Dee &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recognition for a Navy disaster</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/29/recognition-for-a-navy-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/29/recognition-for-a-navy-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From our colleagues up in The Show comes an interesting story about a piece of naval history finally recognized: This fall, the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial became a full-fledged member of the National Park System, meaning park rangers, more funding, and the whole treatment for the site of the Navy&#8217;s worst home-front disaster. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vinson sailor goes to Africa, comes back with novel</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/21/vinson-sailor-goes-to-africa-comes-back-with-novel/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/21/vinson-sailor-goes-to-africa-comes-back-with-novel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If serving ashore as an individual augmentee is going to stay a reality of sailor life for a long time to come &#8212; which is what service officials keep saying &#8212; here&#8217;s a good example of how to make the best of it: IT2 Angela Bryant, of the carrier Carl Vinson, was sent to Djibouti [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The only way to travel</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/09/the-only-way-to-travel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diving]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician 2nd Class Edwin Sharpe has come up with an elegant solution to a problem that has plagued military rear ends since 1957, when the C-130 Hercules made its debut with the U.S. military. Sure, it&#8217;s a useful aircraft, but it can be less than&#8230; ah&#8230; comfortable to sit on a mesh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A sailor surge in Afghanistan?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/02/a-sailor-surge-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/02/a-sailor-surge-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[individual augmentees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first blush, it might not seem like the Navy would be much affected by President Obama&#8217;s announcement last night that he is sending 30,000 more troops to land-locked Afghanistan by next year. But there are thousands of mountain sailors across Afghanistan, and it seems likely that more could begin deploying there as part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Initiate puck-striking and ice-skating operations!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/initiate-puck-striking-and-ice-skating-operations/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/initiate-puck-striking-and-ice-skating-operations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2078</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever wondered whether the referee in an important hockey game was dropping the puck just a little on the other guys&#8217; side to give them an edge, here&#8217;s the solution. Rear Adm. Walter Carter, captain of the carrier Carl Vinson&#8217;s hockey team, and Navy explosive ordnance disposal technician Lt. Bob Pizzini waited for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We build, we fight, we visit museums</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/28/we-build-we-fight-we-visit-museums/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/28/we-build-we-fight-we-visit-museums/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2007</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Scoop Deck learned during a recent visit to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, you can&#8217;t swing a reporter&#8217;s notebook when you&#8217;re downrange without hitting Seabees at work on projects for the war effort. They were at Camp Eggers, in Kabul, Afghanistan; they were at Camp Leatherneck; and at Kandahar Air Field, putting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phil Stacey&#8217;s new album drops soon</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/14/phil-staceys-new-album-drops-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/14/phil-staceys-new-album-drops-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1766</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the day, long before there was a Scoop Deck or anybody knew what Twitter was, NavyTimes.com was the place to go for some of the Web&#8217;s hardest-hitting coverage of &#8220;American Idol.&#8221; Why? One of 2007&#8242;s final contestants was a sailor, MU3 Phil Stacey, and NavyTimes.com readers followed his implausible rise from Naval Air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The European flavour</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/10/the-european-flavour/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/10/the-european-flavour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1686</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, AFGHANISTAN &#8212; Before we arrived on Sunday, people kept telling us this place was like Mos Eisley Cantina in &#8220;Star Wars,&#8221; and it is, kind of &#8212; a Babylon in the scrubland, filled with people in strange uniforms, speaking exotic languages. There are service members here from the dozens of NATO nations that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The other green side</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/09/the-other-green-side/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/09/the-other-green-side/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD, IRAQ – Navy Secretary Ray Mabus met with senior Iraqi and U.S. officials here Thursday, and I learned what Army guys call a bathroom. Mabus’ visits to the Ministry of Defense and the new U.S. embassy were coordinated in part by the Army, which provided our latest exposure to the magic of jointness in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Try not to breathe the air</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/02/1638/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAMP LEMONIER, DJIBOUTI &#8211; A putrid haze is settling over the base tonight, making an already uncomfortably humid evening all the worse. Djibouti City&#8217;s landfill is just over a wall adjacent to the camp, and Djiboutian sanitation officials have evidently deemed it their policy to burn the city&#8217;s garbage every night, apparently in open pits. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down on Khat Korner</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/02/down-on-khat-korner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DJIBOUTI CITY, DJIBOUTI – Navy Secretary Ray Mabus is an enthusiastic world traveler (with 103 countries, by his count) and a dedicated amateur photographer (with a book of images to his credit) and so when he arrived in Djibouti late Sunday, he wanted to see the city and shoot a few frames. This request produced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just don&#8217;t drink the water</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/27/just-dont-drink-the-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck has been told by friends in the Navy that duty in Italy is widely popular. The food and lifestyle is often fondly recalled. But according to this report there are unseen hazards for those posted in Naples.]]></description>
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