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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; The greenside</title>
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		<title>I need one of these at home</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/07/22/i-need-one-of-these-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Batteries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day, military personnel and civilians alike will enjoy much-simplified electronic lives. Until then, most of us are stuck with a plethora of batteries, connectors and chargers for the electronic devices so vital to our lives. Most, that is, except for Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians, who should soon lose about 41 pounds worth of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Va. Beach NECC unit nabs Sloan Award</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/02/04/va-beach-necc-unit-nabs-sloan-award/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/02/04/va-beach-necc-unit-nabs-sloan-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The top 20 percent. That&#8217;s where Explosive Ordnance Disposal Training and Evaluation Unit 2 now finds itself in terms of public AND private employers in terms of programs, policies and culture for creating an effective and flexible workplace. EODTEU 2, located in Virginia Beach, Va., received the 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underway (so to speak) on wave power</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/28/underway-so-to-speak-on-wave-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:42:16 +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=6396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So maybe this doesn&#8217;t carry the same kind of epochal importance as the Nautilus&#8217; famous message, but Navy officials are proud nonetheless: Engineers have hooked up a wave-power buoy to the electrical grid at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, meaning that a portion of the juice now running the barbershop clippers and soft drink machines out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s&#8230; unusual</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/14/thats-unusual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marine Cpl. Brice Millier helped a Guatemalan patient with her cranial last week before flying her out to the amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima for surgery. Notice anything else&#8230; interesting&#8230; about this photo? The answer is after the jump. Check out that bootleg Calvin decal &#8212; this guy apparently hates the MV-22 Osprey! I&#8217;ve seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;He sh** his pants&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/10/he-sh-his-pants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, even when you encounter certain phrases for the first time, you can already hear them echoing down the corridors of history: &#8220;Axis of Evil;&#8221; &#8220;shock and awe;&#8221; and &#8220;quadrennial defense review,&#8221; are three examples. So too with the words of Marine Capt. Alexander Martin, commander of 2nd Platoon, Force Reconnaissance Company, who told reporters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help for Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/12/help-for-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iron Nickel to the rescue: The amphibious assault ship Peleliu and its embarked Marines have been tasked with helping Pakistan recover from its devastating floods. According to this story, the ship&#8217;s 19 Marine helicopters will take over from six Army helos that commanders had &#8220;loaned&#8221; from combat in Afghanistan.]]></description>
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		<title>The doc on the beat</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/11/the-doc-on-the-beat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marine Corps photographer Cpl. Lindsay Sayres has a great set of photos this morning about HM2 Claire E. Ballante, a member of 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines&#8217; Female Engagement Team, which helps keep the peace in Helmand Province. Above, Ballante patrols with the Marines in her unit in Musa Qa&#8217;leh. Ballante and her FETmates are specifically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blue-Green Team of tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/05/the-blue-green-team-of-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our senior colleague Christopher P. Cavas has a great story this week about the early planning  for what the Marine Corps will look like after Afghanistan: Any way you slice it, the Marines are going to be operating closer than ever with the Navy, so top decision-makers like Navy Undersecretary Bob Work are nailing down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navies secure from &#8216;SNOOZEPAC&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/02/secure-from-snoozepac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The greenside]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The chips and dip are long gone; guys are waking up with marker on their faces; and the p-ways are echoing with the sound of empties rolling around &#8212; yes, the multinational naval kegger known as RIMPAC, aka SNOOZEPAC, is over. But unless you&#8217;re an expert insider, you shouldn&#8217;t try to discern any wider significance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The only one of its kind</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/30/the-only-one-of-its-kind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5536</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s seabasing&#8217;s world, and we just live in it &#8212; or so some elements in the Pentagon and at Quantico might say. So, all right: Y&#8217;got a whole bunch of angry, face-painted Devil Dogs ashore on a hostile beach doing what they do best &#8212; chopping up bad guys and kicking up rooster-tails in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The leatherneck league</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/25/the-leatherneck-league/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 18:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MC2 Ace Rheaume caught this commonplace, yet utterly surreal scene in Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, where Seabees and Marines played a game of pick-up softball on Saturday. These figures frozen against the dimensionless, dusty background, complete with that construction equipment on the horizon, all combine to make this image like something an early Renaissance artist would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SecDef&#8217;s blast effects</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/11/secdefs-blast-effects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 15:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you make of Defense Secretary Robert Gates&#8217; recent fusillade against the sea services? Was it, in fact, a fusillade, or is it the &#8220;swan song&#8221; for a SecDef on his way out the door? Should the Navy and Marine Corps be worried about big cuts, or can they just wait Gates out as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The green-green team</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/28/the-green-green-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:20:25 +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=4836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Absolutely no disrespect meant here, but isn&#8217;t it funny to think about the Navy and Marine Corps &#8212; an immense, mechanized bureaucracy built around the basic goals of killing and destruction &#8212; as a crunchy-granola, hippie-dippie, save-Mother Earth commune? That&#8217;s the picture the Navy tried to paint as Earth Day came and went last week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SecNav unveils Murtha&#8217;s amphib</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/23/secnav-unveils-murthas-amphib/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As readers of Navy Times and Scoop Deck already knew would happen, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus on Friday named the Navy&#8217;s 10th San Antonio-class amphib for Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha. (Does that shot look familiar? It should.) &#8220;Both in uniform and in the halls of Congress, chairman Murtha dedicated his life to serving his country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/seven-in-seven-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Navy nabbed a lot of headlines again this week. Leading the way is news that the Green Hornet on Thursday took to flight – the fighter jet, not the super hero. The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet was powered by a 50/50 blend of biofuel and JP-5. That same day, a U.S. military jury cleared a Navy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alien spacecraft photo of the day</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/19/alien-spacecraft-photo-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MC2 Coleman Thompson was in the right place at the right time to capture this amazing occurrence: Some kind of extraterrestrial transport, powered by a pair of nacelles crackling with pure energy, resting on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship Nassau. Fortunately the aliens&#8217; tail markings are decipherable for us humans, so you [...]]]></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>The gator named for Murtha</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/14/the-gator-named-for-murtha/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/14/the-gator-named-for-murtha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4612</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has chosen the name &#8220;John P. Murtha&#8221; for the tenth San Antonio-class gator, heretofore only known as LPD 26, and the decision has caused a splash online. Not only does the name break with the convention of naming ships in the class for cities, there&#8217;s the matter of the namesake himself. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/09/seven-in-seven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Navy kicked off the month by kicking pirate butt in three foiled attacks. The stories that nabbed most other headlines this week included the Nuclear Posture Review, which was all the talk in the beltway; F-35 training, which continues despite problems getting the jets; the Fire Scout, which scored its first drug bust;  the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motivational tank photograph of the day</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/08/motivational-tank-photograph-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/08/motivational-tank-photograph-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4559</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Marine Sgt. Alex Sauceda gets today&#8217;s highly coveted, very rare, Tank or Armored Vehicle Photography Prize for this &#8212; let&#8217;s be honest here &#8212; completely badass shot of an M1A1 Abrams main battle tank firing on a range in Djibouti. The elements Sauceda has chosen to include in the image are simple: A badass tank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Call it &#8216;Can-Do Kung Fu&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/31/just-call-it-can-do-kung-fu/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/31/just-call-it-can-do-kung-fu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Seabees of  Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 74 can really pack a punch. When they catch a break from ops in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, they focus on hand-to-hand and close-quarters combat techniques taught in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program. Two Seabees endured three months of gruelling, accelerated training to become instructors. One is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The gator that makes you want to lose weight</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/the-gator-that-makes-you-want-to-lose-weight/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/the-gator-that-makes-you-want-to-lose-weight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chow]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Few things create a culture of fitness better than fabulous prizes. Case study: The dock landing ship Harpers Ferry, where the winners of its &#8220;Biggest Loser&#8221; competition were announced this week and awarded &#8212; get this &#8212; round-trip tickets to Hawaii and five-star hotel accommodations when they got there. Scheduled to enjoy those plum prizes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This week in seabasing, vol. 2</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/this-week-in-seabasing-vol-2/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/22/this-week-in-seabasing-vol-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a hot shot for all the crane fans out there: Check out this Large Vessel Interface, Lift-On/Lift-Off crane aboard the Military Sealift Command crane ship Flickertail State loading some ISO containers from the pier last week. To a small cadre of seabasing devotees in Washington and Quantico, this is just as sexy as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flag matters</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/16/flag-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/16/flag-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morale]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re sitting by the window when the plane lands at the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, you can see ruined parts of the city, some old junked helicopters, and a big Canadian maple leaf flag flying in the breeze. That was the only flag Scoop Deck saw on a visit March 1, but according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with the &#8216;Hurt&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/08/dealing-with-the-hurt/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/08/dealing-with-the-hurt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4080</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s unfortunate that &#8220;Hurt Locker&#8221; nabbed the Oscar for Best Picture. Not because the film, from a cinematic perspective, was unworthy. Indeed, its cast and crew certainly exceeded expectations in their respective professions. And Scoop Deck is thrilled that Kathryn Bigelow broke the barrier and nabbed the first top prize for a female director (beating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Iwo Jima</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/05/remembering-iwo-jima/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/05/remembering-iwo-jima/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4049</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re right in the middle of the long anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, which raged for much of February and March, 1945, after the Marines went ashore Feb. 19 and fought legendarily tough Japanese resistance for weeks.  Veterans, Marines and sailors have been visiting Iwo Jima &#8212; now known as Iwo To &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California needs the blue-green team to tame its kids</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/03/california-needs-the-blue-green-team/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/03/california-needs-the-blue-green-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:58:40 +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=4004</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The skills learned by sailors and Marines &#8212; keeping cool under intense stress; learning to master impenetrable bureaucracies; enduring the daily threat of personal danger &#8212; make them great teachers, California state officials say. Well, they didn&#8217;t say that exactly, but California and the Defense Department are promoting the idea that sailors and Marines become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The blue-green team in Haiti: Work continues</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/04/the-blue-green-team-in-haiti-work-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/04/the-blue-green-team-in-haiti-work-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3686</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Haiti humanitarian relief mission no longer dominates the cable-news TV networks these days, and the Navy has already withdrawn some of the ships &#8212; notably the carrier Carl Vinson &#8212; that were first to respond. That doesn&#8217;t mean the work has stopped, though. The Bataan and Nassau Amphibious Ready Groups, and the 22nd and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Avatar&#8217; not anti-military, director tells military</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/29/avatar-not-anti-military-director-tells-military/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/29/avatar-not-anti-military-director-tells-military/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:50:45 +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=3595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Judging by the box office receipts, every human being on the planet has now seen &#8220;Avatar&#8221; at least once, so there&#8217;s no worry about spoilers: In the far-off sci-fi planet where the movie takes place, gruff men with high-and-tight haircuts and digital camouflage uniforms really do a number on the planet&#8217;s indigenous population of Native [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fleet photos: Haiti edition</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/25/fleet-photos-haiti-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/25/fleet-photos-haiti-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Katie Blankenship of the dock landing ship Fort McHenry carried a Haitian patient to a helicopter to be flown ashore for more medical help on Sunday. The sick bays aboard many of the Navy warships in the Haitian task force &#8212; including the hospital ship Comfort &#8212; were at or near [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More management lessons from a carrier</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/25/more-management-lessons-from-a-carrier/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/25/more-management-lessons-from-a-carrier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3530</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although it might not seem possible from the perspective of ABH3 Joe Deckplate &#8212; they make you do a FOD walkdown, button everything up, set flight quarters and then the Marine 53s never arrive because they broke down &#8212; outsiders are perpetually fascinated by the Navy as an exercise in good management. Scoop Deck saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LCACs airborne, land supplies in Haiti</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/22/lcacs-airborne-land-supplies-in-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/22/lcacs-airborne-land-supplies-in-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our man in Haiti, Mark D. Faram, was with the Marines and sailors aboard the first Landing Craft, Air Cushion hovercrafts that came ashore today, carrying supplies and armored vehicles. The Marines planned to use the four LAV-25s, from the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, to set up a perimeter around a new base camp, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti rescue links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/20/haiti-rescue-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/20/haiti-rescue-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Heavy-lift helo flyin&#8217;, cargo pallets loadin&#8217;, well deck floodin&#8217;, LCU launchin&#8217;, force-for-good-bein&#8217; links, anchored offshore and ready to deliver the latest updates on the biggest Navy amphibious operation since Inchon. The U.S. is sending a second amphibious ready group to join the one already on station off Port-au-Prince and delivering shipments of food and medicine. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti update: Gators on station. Marines ashore.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/19/haiti-update-gators-on-station/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/19/haiti-update-gators-on-station/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck&#8217;s senior shipmate Mark D. Faram reports (by text message) that the first Marine elements from the amphibious ship Bataan and its small-deck companions are on the ground near Port-au-Prince. They arrived yesterday and job one was to find places ashore where the ships&#8217; amphibious craft and Marine helicopters could land. Mark got to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gators, sailors, Marines to arrive soon in Haiti</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/18/gators-sailors-marines-to-arrive-soon-in-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/18/gators-sailors-marines-to-arrive-soon-in-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck&#8217;s shipmates Mark D. Faram and Colin Kelly, who are aboard the amphibious assault ship Bataan, report they and their small-deck gator escorts will start to arrive today off Haiti. Then things are going to get really interesting: The ships are carrying an array of supplies and equipment that their sailors and Marines don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aussie women too hot, &#8220;Marine&#8221; complains</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/06/aussie-women-too-hot-marine-complains/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/06/aussie-women-too-hot-marine-complains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A man identifying himself as a Marine officer &#8212; who could very well have been attached to a visiting Navy amphibious ship &#8212; has caused an international controversy: Young women in the the city of Darwin, in Australia&#8217;s Northern Territory, attire themselves too immodestly, declared &#8220;Capt. John Campbell&#8221; in a letter to the local newspaper. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work begins on new ship for&#8230; the Army? (Updated)</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/18/work-begins-on-new-ship-for-the-army/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/18/work-begins-on-new-ship-for-the-army/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naval Sea Systems Command announced Thursday that the Gulf Coast shipyard that built the littoral combat ship Independence had just started work on a new vessel &#8212; for the Army. Has the whole world, you ask, gone topsy-turvy? Dogs and cats living together&#8230; mass hysteria&#8230; NavSea issuing press releases about Army ships&#8230; Reclaim your grip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the wings of aviation boatswain&#8217;s mates</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/16/on-the-wings-of-aviation-boatswains-mates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of the amphibious assault ship Makin Island &#8212; and we were &#8212; here&#8217;s an update on a project you first read about here all the way back in July. When we last checked in with Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Aircraft Handling) 1st Class (AW/SW) William Tanner, the &#8220;ship&#8217;s artist,&#8221; he&#8217;d gotten a little side-tracked, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uuurr-auughh as the Marine Corps turns 234</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/10/uuurr-auughh-as-the-marine-corps-turns-234/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/10/uuurr-auughh-as-the-marine-corps-turns-234/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the birthday of the United States Marine Corps, marking 234 years since the Continental Congress met at the famous Tun Tavern and approved a resolution calling for two battalions of hard-chargin’ soldiers of the sea to fight from Navy ships against the British. Since then, the Marines have graciously permitted the U.S. government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bored in Manhattan? Check out the Navy and Marines</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/04/bored-in-manhattan/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/04/bored-in-manhattan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; Here&#8217;s an old story you&#8217;ve heard before: A hot new performer arrives in in this notoriously hard-to-please city and is rewarded with fame and adulation. Here&#8217;s the twist: This time the main character is a 25,000-ton Navy warship. The amphibious transport dock New York, which docked in Manhattan Monday in advance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of the JATO era</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/29/the-end-of-the-jato-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A seldom-discussed but important rite of passage for every American boy is the first time he hears the story of &#8220;the JATO car,&#8221; the infamous station wagon whose owner augmented it with Jet Assisted Take Off rocket bottles. The cops found the wreckage of his car crashed into the side of a mountain, the story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The maritime strategy enters the terrible twos</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/20/the-maritime-strategy-enters-the-terrible-twos/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/20/the-maritime-strategy-enters-the-terrible-twos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The famed brown-shoe blogger SteeljawScribe &#8212; or as they&#8217;d say in Pittsburgh, &#8220;Stuhljawr-Scrub&#8221; &#8212; has reminded the Internet this week that we&#8217;ve reached the second anniversary of the unveiling of the maritime strategy (pdf), the document that was supposed to pave a clear road forward for the U.S. naval services and Coast Guard. Asks Steeljaw: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No, you may not go play with the Americans</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/29/no-you-may-not-go-play-with-the-americans/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/29/no-you-may-not-go-play-with-the-americans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an odd item passed along by a Scoop Deck pal on the subcontinent: The Indian Navy was all set to participate in a U.S. amphibious exercise in Japan recently, but it backed out when it didn&#8217;t get permission from India&#8217;s Ministry of Defence. According to today&#8217;s Indian Express, a dozen Indian naval officers were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia looks to France for its gator needs</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/27/russia-looks-to-france-for-its-gator-needs/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/27/russia-looks-to-france-for-its-gator-needs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ship-o-sphere is spinning after Wednesday&#8216;s announcement that Russia will buy several Mistral-class amphibious ships from France, in one of the biggest foreign defense acquisitions modern Russia has ever made. Russia, and the Soviet Union before it, had a centuries-old shipbuilding tradition, but Moscow&#8217;s military leaders are apparently uncertain enough about their own yards that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three floating 9/11 memorials</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/21/three-floating-911-memorials/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/21/three-floating-911-memorials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ships]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The average American has had plenty of good reasons over the past few years to become familiar with the San Antonio class of amphibious transport docks, but that will probably all be eclipsed as the newest one, the New York, gets closer to commissioning this November. The ship&#8217;s bow stem contains 7.5 tons of steel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movin&#8217; out</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/09/movin-out/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/09/movin-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The greenside]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAMP AL TAQADDUM, IRAQ – “The Navy gets the gravy; the Marines get the beans” – one hears a lot of doggerel like that the longer one spends time around the military. What does it mean? Who knows? It kept cropping into my head, however, with each new stop during our tour of this isolated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ooh-rah. Urr-augh? Wheew-rawr?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/05/ooh-rah-urr-augh-wheew-rawr/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/05/ooh-rah-urr-augh-wheew-rawr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The deckplates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AL ASAD AIR BASE, IRAQ &#8212; Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said what could have been his first &#8220;ooh-rah&#8221; today, at the close of a brief all-hands call up at Camp Ubaydi, in the northern part of Anbar Province. Specifically, he said &#8220;whew-RAW,&#8221; and, immediately recognizing the spirited greeting of their beloved Corps, the Marines in [...]]]></description>
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