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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Uniforms</title>
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		<title>New crackerjacks approved!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/05/21/new-crackerjacks-approved/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/05/21/new-crackerjacks-approved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 16:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crackerjacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dixie cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dress blues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wait is over: New crackerjacks are coming. The Navy’s top officer has approved the long awaited overhaul of the iconic dress uniform, a modernization that officials say will make them more comfortable and functional. Both dress whites and dress blues, worn by E-6 and below, have been updated after a six year trial-and-error effort. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NWUs: Good enough for POTUS</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/21/nwus-good-enough-for-potus/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/21/nwus-good-enough-for-potus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personnel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At a Nov. 4 ceremony in Cannes, France, honoring the U.S.-French alliance, President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy reviewed troops from both nations. Amid them, standing at attention, front and center, was a formation of sailors in blue-and-gray NWUs. The fleet has often complained that the off-base restrictions on NWUs are too tight: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Navy and the budget: What&#8217;s getting cut?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/10/the-navy-and-the-budget-whats-getting-cut/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/10/the-navy-and-the-budget-whats-getting-cut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy Times]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Navy is about to start seeing significant reductions in spending for operations and maintenance, spare parts, new ships and aircraft, research and development, and personnel, all essentially the result of a flagging U.S. economy. In the new Navy Times, analysts and insiders assess the areas at risk, while readers offer suggestions on what they&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By region, Navy swaps whites for blues</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/03/9230/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/03/9230/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uniforms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gouge]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It may be time to break out your blues. The date of the semiannual uniform change over from whites to blues is set by each of the 12 Navy regions, but wide swaths of the U.S. are changing over now. Blues became the official dress uniform for sailors from Maine to Maryland on Monday, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Spiced&#8217;: A Very Special episode</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/06/spiced-a-very-special-episode/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/04/06/spiced-a-very-special-episode/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naval Safety Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=8079</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember in the &#8217;80s when sitcoms did Very Special episodes? Who will ever forget Jessie&#8217;s freak out when she took caffeine pills? Or the time Urkel got drunk and almost died? And don&#8217;t get Scoop Deck started on the time Brad got high, or on Uncle Ned&#8217;s drinking problem. The sailors up at the Naval Submarine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An interesting item in the NOC</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/27/an-interesting-item-in-the-noc/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/27/an-interesting-item-in-the-noc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 12:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ordnance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shore duty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uniforms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a delicate item: An Amphibian Associate of ours and his eagle-eyed readers have spotted something hilarious in the new Naval Operations Concept, but it&#8217;s borderline scatological. It involves the glossy pictures that take up much of the document and the salty language common among average sailors out in the fleet. That&#8217;s probably all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brothers and sisters of the blueberry</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/17/brothers-and-sisters-of-the-blueberry/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/17/brothers-and-sisters-of-the-blueberry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 14:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[merchant ships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uniforms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5058</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Capt. Joseph Kuzmick of the carrier John C. Stennis got ready to conduct a Navy Working Uniform inspection last week on the flight deck of his ship, but the U.S. Navy isn&#8217;t the only fan of this ensemble. The &#8220;tactical blueberry&#8221; or &#8220;aquaflage&#8221; uniform has fans in the maritime profession even outside the military &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven in Seven</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/16/seven-in-seven-2/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/16/seven-in-seven-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The greenside]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=4656</guid>
		<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>Seahawk sortie links</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/25/seahawk-sortie-links/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/25/seahawk-sortie-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maritime operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pirates]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sonar dippin&#8217;, Mk 54 torpedo droppin&#8217;, VERTREP cargo haulin&#8217;, Hellfire missile shootin&#8217;, humanitarian aid deliverin&#8217; links, standing by to fly you to the carrier for your lunch with the admiral, where you&#8217;ll probably get a lot of interesting updates like these: The hospital ship Comfort has about 1,000 beds, 80 intensive care wards, 12 operating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check the tag on that T-shirt!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/19/check-the-tag-on-that-t-shirt/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/19/check-the-tag-on-that-t-shirt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:53:49 +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=3456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems Navy Exchange Service Command uniform centers have been selling a blue T-shirt that is not authorized for wear with the blue-and-gray camouflage Navy Working Uniform. The T-shirt in question is the 50/50 cotton/polyester version identified by “Soffe” in red letters on the collar label. Only the cotton version is authorized. NEXCom has pulled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combination covers, combined</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/08/combination-covers-combined/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/08/combination-covers-combined/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Officers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2429</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When admirals from 100 different navies gather, they need a place to stack their covers. This was the pile-up outside a meeting of the International Seapower Symposium at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. on Oct. 7.  Scoop Deck usually has a sharp eye for detail but this one is a tough nut. Good luck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paint your own cammies</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/21/paint-your-own-cammies/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/21/paint-your-own-cammies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this photo taken aboard the cruiser Anzio in the Middle East. Good to know that if you can&#8217;t afford the new Navy Working Uniform (which was designed to hide grease and paint), a bucket of paint and a set of blue coveralls will do the trick. So wait &#8230; the Navy spent $226 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A horse sailor</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/a-horse-sailor/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/09/02/a-horse-sailor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[individual augmentees]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2049</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one that might throw you off. From a distance you&#8217;d think &#8220;soldier,&#8221; but in fact Scoop Deck found this sailor in Kuwait turning in gear after an individual augmentee assignment with the Army&#8217;s 1st Cavalry Division. According to the latest information from 5th Fleet, there are 4,950 IAs throughout the Central Command area.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Unchallenged at sea&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/16/unchallenged-at-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/16/unchallenged-at-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign navies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  With the destroyer Arleigh Burke recently in port in South Africa, Scoop Deck got to learning about that nation&#8217;s navy. Check out the website. Of particular interest to those sailors who think the U.S. Navy should allow beards again, look at uniform regulations, under the &#8220;about us&#8221; section.  Not quite ZZ Top, but not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squared away or sloppy. You decide.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/26/squared-away-or-sloppy-you-decide/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/26/squared-away-or-sloppy-you-decide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chiefs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The deckplates]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=983</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, then-Surface Force Master Chief (SW/AW) Michael Schanche put out a message (second item) about a trip to the waterfront in San Diego that left him &#8220;professionally embarrassed&#8221; for the first time in his career. He expressed dismay at an overall lack of military bearing, courtesies and good appearance. A year has passed and Navy Times decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SecNav answers the question on everyone&#8217;s mind</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/18/secnav-answers-the-question-on-everyones-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/18/secnav-answers-the-question-on-everyones-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Officers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The deckplates]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=839</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As he introduced Navy Secretary Ray Mabus on Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates wasted no time getting to the topic we&#8217;ve all been dying to learn more about. During Mabus&#8217; time in the Navy, as an officer aboard the cruiser Little Rock, then-Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Elmo Zumwalt relaxed some of the service&#8217;s attitudes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Dolphins Day?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/12/national-dolphins-day/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/12/national-dolphins-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Submarines]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By way of Bubblehead comes a campaign from a self-described &#8220;old boomer chief of the boat&#8221; to create a Wear Your Dolphins To Work Day, on which everyone who&#8217;d ever been submarine-qualified would sport their coveted &#8220;fish&#8220;, even in civilian attire, and represent the sub force. For current submariners, every day is Wear Your Dolphins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But will it fit under a cranial?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/05/but-will-it-fit-under-a-cranial/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/05/but-will-it-fit-under-a-cranial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a little known section of the uniform regs, wigs for women and men are OK in the Navy as long as they don&#8217;t clog a spinning turbine or get sucked into any rotor blades. No joke. &#8220;Wigs or hairpieces shall be of good quality and fit, present a natural appearance and conform to the grooming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sloppy or squared away?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/05/sloppy-or-squared-away/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/05/sloppy-or-squared-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Officers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The deckplates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uniforms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago we began asking for opinions and observations from throughout the Navy with an eye toward sailors, chiefs and officers who do not seem to care about fitness, their uniform or simple military courtesies.  The curiosity was inspired by a message sent a year ago by then-Force Master Chief (SW/AW) Mike Schanche of Naval Surface Forces, expressing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;speaking of uniforms</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/02/speaking-of-uniforms/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/02/speaking-of-uniforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uniforms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=44</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An assortment of war suits here. Send us your best guess of where on the earth a purple pattern was found to be effective.]]></description>
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		<title>Covered all but coveralls</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/02/covered-all-but-coveralls/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/06/02/covered-all-but-coveralls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uniforms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=37</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  A May 27 visit by the first President Bush to the new aircraft carrier bearing his name revealed, well, a lack of uniformity. There are four, count &#8216;em, four different Navy uniforms visible in one space on the ship, where you might expect to see at least one clean set of practical and popular coveralls. Oddly enough, the Iraqi [...]]]></description>
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