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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Submarines</title>
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		<title>Happy 112th, undersea warriors!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/04/11/happy-112th-undersea-warriors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holland IV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hooyah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick West]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarine Force]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 11 marks the 112th anniversary of the date the Navy bought its first fully submersible vessel, Holland IV, and the web is lighting up with birthday greetings, official and unofficial. The official video above was released by Naval Submarine Forces and features sailors from across the force. Operation Homefront, a nonprofit that provides financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunting narco-subs remains a challenge, officials say</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/03/14/narco-subs-remain-a-challenge-officials-say/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/03/14/narco-subs-remain-a-challenge-officials-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug sub]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seneca]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=10339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Drug cartels rely on trucks, small planes, ships and speed boats to smuggle narcotics into the United States. And in recent years, they’re building increasingly sophisticated submarines, some of which can travel submerged.  These drug-running subs are proving to be an issue for the Navy and the Coast Guard, a top official acknowledged Tuesday. “It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Navy in Leap Year: WWII, Vietnam and the modern sub inventor&#8217;s birthday</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/29/the-navy-in-leap-year-not-much-to-note/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/29/the-navy-in-leap-year-not-much-to-note/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leap Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=10253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every four years, Leap Year adds one day to the calendar to keep our timekeeping in alignment with the Earth&#8217;s revolutions around the sun.  I thought it&#8217;d be neat to find an event in naval history to highlight and mark the unusual day. Unfortunately, there aren&#8217;t any of those major anniversaries that one would normally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas tale, submarine-version</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/21/a-christmas-tale-submarine-version/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/21/a-christmas-tale-submarine-version/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday message]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“ ‘Twas the night before Christmas and what no one could see / The men with dolphins were under the sea.” So begins the epic 8-minute Christmas video from the submarine force, with sailors from Kings Bay, Ga., to Yokosuka, Japan, reciting verses of “ ‘Twas the night before Christmas — Submarine Style.” In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You never marched like this</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/21/you-never-marched-like-this/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/21/you-never-marched-like-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marine Corps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No matter how much you loved your sub and how well you can march, or the weird ideas that fermented in your brain after weeks underway without sunlight, you never, not once, thought of doing anything like the formations the West Virginia University Marching Band pulled off. The whole clip is good and worth a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sub force&#8217;s first female trailblazers</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/22/the-sub-forces-first-female-trailblazers/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/22/the-sub-forces-first-female-trailblazers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women in the Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female nukes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female submariners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear power school]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9624</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With female officers reporting for duty this month to the submarine force, news stories have hailed these trailblazers as the first female submariners. While that may be true, they’re not without forebears, one reader told Navy Times. In the early 1980s, roughly 120 women were recruited into the nuclear Navy to join the submarine force, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The warm relationship with Chile</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/02/the-warm-relationship-with-chile/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/02/the-warm-relationship-with-chile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3rd Fleet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9029</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The quiet diesel-electric submarine Carrera slid through San Diego Bay on Sept. 1 for the start of a three-month deployment to the United States, where the Chilean boat will train with 3rd Fleet’s ships, subs and aircraft. Carrera’s presence in a U.S. port – it calls the submarine piers at Point Loma Naval Base its short-term [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomahawk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>

		<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>Mids win top honors at sub race</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/07/11/mids-win-top-honors-at-sub-race/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/07/11/mids-win-top-honors-at-sub-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Naval Academy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[11th International Submarine Races]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mighty Mid]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Naval Academy midshipmen captured top honors at the 11th International Submarine Race, held in late June, with their entry, S.S.H. 11 Mighty Mid. Mighty Mid, a two-man fiberglass sub built by the academy team, sported waving fins that can be powered by pedaling, which they adapted from use on some kayaks. Mighty Mid hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy hosts 11th build-it-yourself mini-sub race</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/22/navy-hosts-10th-built-it-yourself-mini-sub-race/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/06/22/navy-hosts-10th-built-it-yourself-mini-sub-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mini-subs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Think your underway life is tough? How about having to build you own sub and race it under your own power? From June 27 to July 1, teams of students, clubs and companies from around the world will be converging on a Navy testing pool in West Bethesda, Md. to race their home-made subs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheese sub surfaces</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/10/cheese-sub-surfaces/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/05/10/cheese-sub-surfaces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 19:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheese]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When submarine vets gathered last Thursday in Manitowoc, Wis., they found an accurate – and edible – tribute to their years of undersea service: a 22-inch-long sculpture of attack submarine Jallao made of pure cheese. It was the creation of Sarah Kaufmann, a.k.a. the Cheese Lady. You won’t be surprised to know that this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homers celebrated with a dive horn</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/27/homers-celebrated-with-a-dive-horn/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/27/homers-celebrated-with-a-dive-horn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The Washington Nationals celebrate home runs with a new submarine klaxon. // AP Photo When the Nationals hit a home run, submariners in the stands will hear a familiar sound &#8212; a dive klaxon. It blares three times to celebrate each homer, a signal – as any bubblehead will tell you – for emergency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silent service turns 111</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/21/silent-service-turns-111/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/21/silent-service-turns-111/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Happy (belated) birthday, bubbleheads! It was on April 11, 111 years ago, that the Navy purchased its first fully submersible vessel, Holland VI, from inventor John Holland. The 64-ton sub cost $150,000 and was christened the SS-1 Holland. Powered by a gasoline engine, it could make could make roughly 2 knots submerged, had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Navy strikes</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/21/8022/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/03/21/8022/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naval aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odyssey Dawn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8022</guid>
		<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>Colombia&#8217;s drug lords enter the silent service</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/02/15/colombias-drug-lords-enter-the-silent-service/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/02/15/colombias-drug-lords-enter-the-silent-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Pacific]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7778</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s Pablo Escobar meets John Holland: drug lords built a 99-foot-long submarine, believed to be the first Colombian narco-sub capable of traveling fully submerged, Colombian officials said Monday. It even sported a periscope. The fiberglass sub, crewed by four, had been designed to haul up to eight tons of narcotics and could travel 9 feet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ensign Seeks Release from Subs on Religious Grounds</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/05/ensign-seeks-release-from-subs-on-religious-grounds/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/05/ensign-seeks-release-from-subs-on-religious-grounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Naval Academy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Officers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An Ohio-class ballistic submarine on strategic patrol in the Atlantic Ocean. // U.S. Navy Would you push the button and launch a nuclear missile, if ordered to? By the time Ensign Michael Izbicki was asked this question in a routine psychological screening at nuclear power school, he had had a religious awakening. He had read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women allowed to join Bulgaria&#8217;s vanishing sub force</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/29/women-allowed-in-bulgarias-vanishing-sub-force/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/29/women-allowed-in-bulgarias-vanishing-sub-force/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. isn&#8217;t the only country integrating women into its submarine force.  But the Bulgarian Navy&#8217;s new policy comes with a knotty Catch-22: Female sailors are suddenly welcome in the submarine service right as lawmakers decided to scrap the country’s only submarine.  The sole submarine is all-but-extinct Soviet Romeo class diesel named the &#8220;Slava,&#8221; Bulgarian for [...]]]></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>
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		<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>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>
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		<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>Ten years later</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/12/ten-years-later/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/12/ten-years-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks a decade since the Russian guided missile submarine Kursk sank with all hands during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea. What has the Russian submarine force learned since then? Unfortunately, according to this interview, not very much. Goes without saying, but just for the record: Sailing under the ocean can be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What damaged the M Star? Here&#8217;s what it wasn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/29/what-damaged-the-m-star-heres-what-it-wasnt/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/29/what-damaged-the-m-star-heres-what-it-wasnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[merchant ships]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another high-seas mystery: The oil tanker M Star docked in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday after it had been damaged somehow during a transit through the Strait of Hormuz. That much we know. What we do not know is causing a buzz in maritime circles online. Maybe it hit some floating wreckage, or, [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Inside the drug sub</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/07/inside-the-drug-sub/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/07/inside-the-drug-sub/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Eagle1, check out this must-click photo gallery from the Drug Enforcement Agency showing more views of the now-infamous narco sub discovered in the Ecuadorian jungle. Eagle1 has great analysis on this thing, including the observation that it looks a lot like another submarine built halfway around the world by the Tamil Tigers. Could this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will new long-range narco-subs change the game?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/06/will-new-long-range-narco-subs-change-the-game/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/06/will-new-long-range-narco-subs-change-the-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:36:39 +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=5563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, U.S. counter-drug authorities knew there were self-propelled semi-submersibles out there, ferrying drugs out of South America just under the wavetops &#8212; but they&#8217;d never seen one. Then, in 2006, it happened: The sighting and seizure of just such a vessel, appropriately nicknamed &#8220;Bigfoot,&#8221; which became the first of several. Next, drug enforcement officials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power of the periscope</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/18/the-power-of-the-periscope/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/18/the-power-of-the-periscope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck turns a year old this month, and in addition to a little promotion we&#8217;ve got going on, we&#8217;ve been looking back at our hundreds of posts from the past 12 months. Some of my favorites are the &#8220;local yokels alarmed by possible submarine sighting&#8221; stories, of which we&#8217;ve had a few examples. In [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5405</guid>
		<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>Learning about life under the sea</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/09/learning-about-life-under-the-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/09/learning-about-life-under-the-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Naval Academy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This photograph of Naval Academy midshipmen learning about a simulator that lets sailors train to sail ballistic missile submarines &#8212; we call them &#8220;boomers,&#8221; pupils! &#8212; brought to mind a classic message-board subject: &#8220;How to simulate life aboard a submarine.&#8221; If you&#8217;re a young midshipman or a civilian who&#8217;s never gone to sea on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the Navy do small-sub, shallow-water ASW?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/26/can-the-navy-do-small-sub-shallow-water-asw/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/26/can-the-navy-do-small-sub-shallow-water-asw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 14:24:14 +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=5172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Near-shore anti-submarine warfare is, amazingly, what&#8217;s hot online today: The New York Times is linking to a Popular Mechanics story warning that the navies of the world &#8212; including the U.S. Navy &#8212; need to brush up on their sub-hunting skills in the wake of the infamous Cheonan attack. In particular, writes Joe Pappalardo, today&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/21/seven-in-seven-6/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/21/seven-in-seven-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been another busy week for the Navy. Here are seven stories in seven minutes from the past seven days that are worthy of notice: 1. Defense Bill passes HASC. This bill has tons of important stuff – far too much to put in this blog. You can check Monday’s edition of Navy Times for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fate of the Cheonan</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/20/the-fate-of-the-cheonan/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/20/the-fate-of-the-cheonan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5091</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The signs were all there: Sudden, unexpected explosion; the ship breaking in half; the rapid sinking; the heavy loss of life. They&#8217;re all the hallmarks of a torpedo attack, but in peacetime &#8212; or what passes for peacetime between North and South Korea &#8212; who wanted to believe it? But the evidence, South Korean investigators [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4929</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4879</guid>
		<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>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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		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></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>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/seven-in-seven-3/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/seven-in-seven-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4764</guid>
		<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>The intersection of past and future</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/20/the-intersection-of-past-and-future/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/20/the-intersection-of-past-and-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday was a day when hope and history shared the same waters at Naval Submarine Base New London, in Groton, Conn. The day opened as sailors assigned to the Pre-Commissioning Unit Missouri raised colors for the first time aboard Missouri, the seventh Virginia-class attack submarine. The crew moved aboard and began bringing the sub’s systems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/16/seven-in-seven-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Navy nabbed a lot of headlines again this week. Leading the way is news that the Navy’s 10th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock will be named for Rep. John Murtha – a story first reported by Scoop Deck’s own Phillip Ewing. An unfortunate T-39 crash killed four in Georgia also made headlines, as did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<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>Career advice from a Navy legend</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/13/career-advice-from-a-navy-legend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck spent an awesome morning with retired Capt. (Dr.) Don Walsh, pilot of the bathyscaphe Trieste, which recorded the deepest dive any man has made. He and Jacques Piccard on Jan. 23, 1960 dove 35,797 feet (6.8 miles) into the deepest known part of any ocean, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. (Navy Times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March Madness &#8212; Navy style</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/08/march-madness-navy-style/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/08/march-madness-navy-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March was a busy month for the Global Force for Good. You&#8217;ve likely heard about the commissionings, the pummeling of pirates and all the other good tidbits. Here are a few highlights that may have slipped under your radar: The carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower launched nearly 620 combat sorties and flew more than 3,600 cumulative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solution to the smoking ban?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/31/solution-to-the-smoking-ban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fewer than 24 hours after Navy Times broke the news that a smoking ban on submarines is in the works, folks in the smokeless tobacco industry have fired up the marketing machines. First out of the gate is Smokefree Innotec, Inc., which provides &#8220;smokefree alternatives.&#8221;  Its press release offers &#8220;the world&#8217;s first totally smokefree hi-tec [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attack sub New Mexico commissioned</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/27/attack-sub-new-mexico-commissioned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crew brings New Mexico to life March 27.  (Photos by Lance M. Bacon)     NORFOLK, Va. – The Navy commissioned the world’s most advanced submarine Saturday as the $2.3 billion attack sub New Mexico was brought to life four months ahead of schedule. Scoop Deck joined the sub’s crew of 134 officers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling with CNO &#8212; Trident Training (pt 2)</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-cno-trident-training-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon took a day trip with Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead this week. This is the play-by-play report. 1015 We are treated to a quick review of A/C repair – a very important facet of sub life. Not only for reasons of comfort, but for the fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling with CNO &#8212; Trident Training</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-cno-trident-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon took a day trip with Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead this week. This is the play-by-play report. Sailors assigned to the guided-missile submarine Florida practice skills controlling the boat in the Ships Control Team Trainer at the Trident Training Facility in Kings Bay, Ga. (photo by MTCS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling with CNO &#8212; Kings Bay</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-cno-kings-bay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon took a day trip with Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead this week. This is the play-by-play report. 0900 Scoop Deck is aboard Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga., where one-half of the nation&#8217;s guided-missile and ballistic-missile submarines are based. We have Lt. j.g. David McCabe at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuke deal implications for the Navy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/15/nuke-deal-implications-for-the-navy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our big-time colleagues at Defense News have a story that says the Kremlin and the White House could be getting close to a new strategic arms reduction deal, and that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could begin talks with her Russian counterparts as early as this week.  Here&#8217;s an interesting detail: The New York Times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MC-Pong</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/09/mc-pong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All right, shipmate, let me show you how we do in the submarine force &#8212; maybe I&#8217;ll come atcha up high &#8212; just like a Tomahawk we can launch through the vertical launch tubes, son &#8212; or maybe I&#8217;ll sneak &#8216;er over the net real low, just like we might use a torpedo, get me?&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: No more nuke Tomahawks after all</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/22/report-no-more-nuke-tomahawks-after-all/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/22/report-no-more-nuke-tomahawks-after-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s Kyodo News Service is reporting that the U.S. has &#8220;informally&#8221; notified the government of Japan that it&#8217;s going to retire the nuclear-capable variant of the Tomahawk cruise missile, &#8220;in line with President Barack Obama&#8217;s policy to pursue a world free of nuclear weapons, Japanese government sources said Monday.&#8221; As we discussed back in December, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Navy&#8217;s unmanned (war)ship</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/03/the-navys-unmanned-warship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In keeping with the long-term trends in the fleet, this was only a matter of time: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking to build a completely unmanned surface ship that will cruise the oceans looking for submarines. DARPA has a request for proposal out this week on an &#8220;Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A towed array for LCS?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/25/a-towed-array-for-lcs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mine warfare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The littoral combat ships weren&#8217;t designed with an onboard sonar because the Navy wanted LCS to use the sensors aboard its unmanned vehicles &#8212; including a remotely operated boat and submarine &#8212; but that, apparently, could be changing: Naval Sea Systems Command&#8217;s Underwater Warfare Center at Newport, R.I. has a request for proposal (pdf) out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When finite funds meet infinite needs</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/19/when-finite-funds-meet-infinite-needs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret the naval fleet has more gaps than O.J.&#8217;s alibi. The Navy is lacking surface vessels, especially amphibs. Submarine and aviation gaps are on the horizon. Even the carrier fleet will drop below requirements for at least three years beginning in 2012. Adding the crushing blow on this already sizable dog pile is [...]]]></description>
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