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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; Washington</title>
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		<title>Mitt Romney: Navy needs more ships</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/19/mitt-romney-navy-needs-more-ships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the size of the fleet took center stage in the presidential campaign. Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor widely regarded as the front-runner in the contest for the Republican nomination, raised the issue at Monday’s debate when he cited the fleet’s size as evidence that President Barack Obama is allowing the military [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boo! Haunted ship visits Washington, D.C.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/26/boo-haunted-ship-visits-washington-d-c/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/10/26/boo-haunted-ship-visits-washington-d-c/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A ship is making a Halloween port call in Washington, D.C., and not just any ship — ghost ship Barry. “Hundreds have served onboard, but some never left,” reads the invitation to the haunted ship, written by the Naval History and Heritage Command. “Come and find out who still haunts the decks of display ship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mullen v. Stewart, round three</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/15/mullen-v-stewart-round-three/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/15/mullen-v-stewart-round-three/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admirals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As he prepares to step down from the military’s top post in two weeks, Adm. Mike Mullen braved the bright lights and barbs of The Daily Show on Monday one last time. Mullen, while discussing his career, braced himself for the comedic trap, which host Jon Stewart laid about a  trip they had taken together [...]]]></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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		<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>Arizona shooting hits close to home</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/10/arizona-shooting-his-close-to-home/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/01/10/arizona-shooting-his-close-to-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=7593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The congresswoman seriously wounded in Saturday’s mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., is a Navy spouse. Rep. Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords, D-Ariz., is one of 13 survivors in the shooting that left six dead at a supermarket shopping center, including an aide. Giffords was shot in the head by the gunman as she met constituents at a “Congress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message not received</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/23/message-not-received/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/23/message-not-received/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember all those exercises South Korea held with the U.S. a few months ago to send a message to its pugnacious northern neighbor? You know, the ones that had the carrier George Washington steaming with the South Korean navy? The exercises that drove U.S.-Chinese relations to a low-point earlier this year? Well Kim Jong-Il didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Seeing is believing, just not on the Internet</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/04/seeing-is-believing-just-not-on-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/04/seeing-is-believing-just-not-on-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old saying in the journalism community: If your mother says she loves you, check it out. The lead story on Drudge Report today proclaimed that the U.S. Navy is sending 34 ships to Mumbai, India, to provide security for President Obama&#8217;s visit. The story links to an Indian news report you can read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the winner is &#8230; both</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/04/and-the-winner-is-both/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/04/and-the-winner-is-both/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Larter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, in-house heavy hitter Chris Cavas broke the news that both Lockheed Martin and Austal USA have been waiting for all year, and both companies can be happy with it. After a year-long wait, the Navy will ask congress for permission to award both companies 10 LCS hulls. The service&#8217;s leadership thinks competition between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking the talk, or, The dessert that nobody wants</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/13/the-dessert-that-nobody-wants/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/13/the-dessert-that-nobody-wants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, not long after Navy Secretary Ray Mabus began his job, he invited a group of journalists to the Pentagon for an introductory chat. He was still trying to get his bearings in the nonstop party called the Puzzle Palace, and described a steep learning curve with all the unfamiliar acronyms and technical terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve come a long way, female service members</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/07/youve-come-a-long-way-female-service-members/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/07/youve-come-a-long-way-female-service-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. Ann Dunwoody, commanding general of Army Materiel Command; and National Defense University president Vice Adm. Ann Rondeau all appeared with CNN anchor Kyra Phillips this week in Washington to talk about the advances that women have made in the military services. For example, Dunwoody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What price tunes?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/30/what-price-tunes/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/30/what-price-tunes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Morale]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a story that came on in legions of Priuses and Volvos yesterday as they inched through traffic back to tastefully decorated, environmentally conscious homes, and it bears revisiting: National Public Radio&#8217;s Robert Siegel pitted a grand old grouch of Washington, WaPo institution Walter Pincus, against Marine Col. Michael Colburn, director of the Marine Corps&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>There&#8217;s nothing else she can say</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/21/theres-nothing-else-she-can-say/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/21/theres-nothing-else-she-can-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No question that being an international art-pop phenom brings in a lot of money, but apparently not enough for Lady Gaga to order her own destroyer from Bath Iron Works. Despite Gaga&#8217;s rally in Portland this week, Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she&#8217;s leaning against permitting a repeal of the ban on open military service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life support</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/20/life-support/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/20/life-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military Sealift Command]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The amphibious transport dock San Antonio sits idle in Norfolk, Va. because of problems that began years ago in the builder&#8217;s yard at Avondale, La. Its sibling, New Orleans, was delivered incomplete and ruled &#8220;degraded&#8221; by the Board of Inspection and Survey; members of its crew told Navy Times horror stories about weekends and holidays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new normal seems awfully familiar</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/15/the-new-normal/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/09/15/the-new-normal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been running at a full sprint, metaphorically speaking, to try to keep ahead of the 535-headed monster known as America&#8217;s legislative branch. He has been tossing scraps of meat over his shoulder to try to slow it down: command closures, efficiency efforts and tough talk about the profligate spending in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help the Navy be more efficient!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/26/help-the-navy-be-more-efficient/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/26/help-the-navy-be-more-efficient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen up, shipmates! Defense Secretary Robert Gates needs YOU to come up with suggestions for how to make this party we call the Defense Department run more efficiently. We need to show all those graybeards over on Capitol Hill there&#8217;s no reason for any debilitating budget cuts! But there&#8217;s money in it for you &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The day the Fire Scout went rogue</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/25/the-day-the-fire-scout-went-rogue/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/25/the-day-the-fire-scout-went-rogue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:30:34 +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=6097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It must get really tiresome being a Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. Your human operators are always making you take off, fly your stupid old waypoints, look at boring objects through your Forward-Looking Infrared sensors, and then go back to base (or the ship). Sometimes you want to just&#8230; break free, y&#8217;know? Well, after more than [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The LCS name strategy at work</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/25/the-lcs-name-strategy-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/25/the-lcs-name-strategy-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=6080</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday we posited that the latest delay in the littoral combat ship program could have some upsides for the Navy, one of which was freeing up time in which to think of some awesome names for the next batch of 15 ships. We got some great suggestions &#8212; sarcastic and otherwise &#8212; but today [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Behind the cyber veil</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/17/behind-the-cyber-veil/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/17/behind-the-cyber-veil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science and technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though many details about nuclear weapons are secret, you don&#8217;t need a physics degree to understand them: Somewhere under water, somebody aboard the ballistic missile submarine Maryland pulls a trigger, a big thing shoots out and flies someplace, and whatever that place was, it ain&#8217;t no more. &#8220;Cyber warfare&#8221; isn&#8217;t like that: It&#8217;s both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT: Cut the Navy and Air Force</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/16/nyt-cut-the-navy-and-air-force/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/16/nyt-cut-the-navy-and-air-force/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times ran an editorial on Sunday praising Defense Secretary Robert Gates&#8217; attempt at a new round of cuts, and recommending two more places to snip: The Blue Side and the Light Blue Side. Mr. Gates, a savvy Washington insider, is trying to pre-empt even deeper cuts. He still wants to ensure an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gates swings the sword again, but the Navy could benefit</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/09/gates-swings-the-sword-again-but-the-navy-could-benefit/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/09/gates-swings-the-sword-again-but-the-navy-could-benefit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every flag officer has a target on her or his back, Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned Monday, announcing an explosive new round of cuts that he hopes will result in at least 50 fewer admirals and generals. Gates wants to show the world (but mostly Congress) that he can cut the legendary bureaucracy emanating from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review roulette comes up Navy. For now.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/02/review-roulette-comes-up-navy-for-now/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/08/02/review-roulette-comes-up-navy-for-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t get what you want from a top-level &#8220;soup-to-nuts&#8221; review in Washington, just wait five minutes &#8212; you&#8217;ll get another one that might be more to your liking. On Thursday, House lawmakers  heard testimony from the heads of an independent panel that was charged with reviewing the Pentagon&#8217;s mega-review, the Quadrennial Defense Review. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you&#8217;re gonna bet, bet on the Navy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/27/if-youre-gonna-bet-bet-on-the-navy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/27/if-youre-gonna-bet-bet-on-the-navy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense analyst Bryan McGrath has an interesting column in our grown-up sibling Defense News this week, making the case that the U.S. should try to be smart about the pending budget cuts that everyone in Washington sees lurking down each dark alley. Look, McGrath writes, we&#8217;re not going to get into another major land war [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s going to happen with Navy shipbuilding?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/19/whats-going-to-happen-to-navy-shipbuilding/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/19/whats-going-to-happen-to-navy-shipbuilding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as the Miami Heat now has its famous trio of superstars, so too did &#8220;This Week In Defense News&#8221; this Sunday &#8212; giants called Muradian, Thompson and Cavas &#8212; discussing what&#8217;s next in the wake of the news that Northrop Grumman is getting out of the shipbuilding game. After you&#8217;ve finished watching, if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing the ocean</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/14/sharing-the-ocean/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/14/sharing-the-ocean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CORONADO, Calif. &#8212; Even though I&#8217;m usually cooped up in a cubicle at the Center of Excellence, inside the Beltway on the other edge of the continent, it doesn&#8217;t take long to get a basic grasp of the local geography: The Pacific is a big ocean. So there&#8217;s plenty of room for the Navy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Czar (aka SecNav): No easy answers</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/02/gulf-czar-aka-secnav-no-easy-answers/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/07/02/gulf-czar-aka-secnav-no-easy-answers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has been on a public tour of the Gulf Coast states all week in his new capacity as the Obama administration&#8217;s &#8220;Captain Marvel&#8221; charged with masterminding the region&#8217;s recovery. So far, he&#8217;s met with politicians, convened some town-hall meetings, and viewed skimming and oil-cleaning. Today he&#8217;s got a phone discussion scheduled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The long flight back to Washington</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/22/the-long-flight-back-to-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/22/the-long-flight-back-to-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even the most grizzled military reporters here at the Center of Excellence are in shock this morning over the up-and-ready scandal to which everyone in Washington blinked awake this morning: President Obama has recalled the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, over what sounds like one corker of a profile in the forthcoming issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SecNav becomes Gulf Czar. Or is it &#8220;Captain Marvel?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/18/secnave-becomes-gulf-czar/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/18/secnave-becomes-gulf-czar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Navy world is still figuring out what it means that President Obama has asked Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to be the Gulf Coast recovery honcho. Reportedly, Mabus will keep his day job as the top civilian leader of the Navy and Marine Corps, which likely means he&#8217;ll log a lot of time in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could today&#8217;s ship names be future liabilities?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/08/could-todays-ship-names-be-future-liabilities/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/08/could-todays-ship-names-be-future-liabilities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Galrahn has an excellent, thoughtful post up today about the expected and unexpected consequences that can come from the names of ships. He begins with the cargo vessel that activists wanted to use to break Israel&#8217;s brigade of Gaza, the Rachel Corrie, named for a woman who was killed in 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DoD: Don&#8217;t rename Navy Department</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/08/dod-dont-rename-navy-department/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/06/08/dod-dont-rename-navy-department/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somebody switched on the giant mechanical octopus installed hundreds of feet below the Pentagon and asked it &#8212; as it has been asked tough questions many times before &#8212; what the Defense Department thinks about the Department of the Navy being renamed the &#8220;Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.&#8221; Just as the machine has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy, Scoop Deck release operations concepts</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/25/navy-scoop-deck-release-operations-concepts/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/25/navy-scoop-deck-release-operations-concepts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 14:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck on Tuesday released its 2010 Blog Operations Concept, which seeks to operationalize the notational conceptual framework that underpins key Web 2.0 content-delivery matrices through the use of italics, Emphatic Capitalization and Terms Made Into Arbitrary Acronyms (TMIAA). Blog Operations Concept You are reading words on a site on a computer network, known as [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Does the Pentagon need a review review?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/21/does-the-pentagon-need-a-review-review/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/21/does-the-pentagon-need-a-review-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 14:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The House Armed Services Committee this week ordered the Pentagon to study how many BMD-capable ships the U.S.  needs, giving it a deadline of March 1 next year &#8212; three months after American warships have been obligated to take on their standing patrols in the Mediterranean. But wait &#8212; the Pentagon just finished a Ballistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gates claims sanity</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/20/gates-claims-sanity/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/20/gates-claims-sanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second time in as many weeks, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has publicly proclaimed his own sanity. Or at least that he is &#8220;not crazy.&#8221; The first happened May 7 when he told reporters: I may want to change things, but I&#8217;m not crazy. I&#8217;m not going to cut a carrier, OK?&#8221; The comment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrier move to Mayport dead in the water?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/20/carrier-move-to-mayport-dead-in-the-water/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/20/carrier-move-to-mayport-dead-in-the-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 20:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Florida’s fight for a carrier was staggered by this Government Accountability Office report. Seeing the Sunshine State was standing on spaghetti legs, Rep. Glenn Nye, D-Va., on Wednesday night landed what Virginia lawmakers hope to be the knock-out punch. It happened as the House Armed Services Committee considered the 2011 defense bill. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hangin&#8217; with Dr. Hooper</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/17/hangin-with-dr-hooper/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/17/hangin-with-dr-hooper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 18:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=5062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After years of blogging anonymously at Defense Springboard, San Francisco national security strategist Craig Hooper broke cover last winter and launched a new site with his real name and smiling photo right at the top. Scoop Deck caught up with Hooper for a discussion about the mil-blogosphere, dropping cover, and why the left needs to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporter&#8217;s Notebook: CNO @ Heritage Foundation</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/14/reporters-notebook-cno-heritage-foundation/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/14/reporters-notebook-cno-heritage-foundation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 15:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date: May 13, 2010 Location: Heritage Foundation, Washington D.C. Subj: CNO comments In a speech and response to questions offered at the Heritage Foundation Thursday, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead urged fiscal responsibility yet downplayed talk of further cuts to Navy ships and programs. He agreed with Defense Secretary Robert Gates&#8217; call for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The LCS missile may still fly</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/13/the-lcs-missile-may-still-fly/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/13/the-lcs-missile-may-still-fly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 14:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Non-Line Of Sight missile may live to fly after all, according to an exclusive report this week by our high-powered colleague Kate Brannen. NLOS, an Army missile also intended as a key weapon for the littoral combat ship, costs too much and doesn&#8217;t really work, according to the Army officials who have asked the [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/05/11/secdefs-blast-effects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 15:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<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>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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:23:56 +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 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>Is LCS 2 getting a raw deal?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/29/is-lcs-2-getting-a-raw-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shipbuilding expert Tim Colton fired a broadside Thursday, spurred by this week&#8217;s congressional report on the life cycle and fuel costs of various Navy surface ships. (You can read our senior colleague Christopher P. Cavas&#8217; take on it here.) Even though the Congressional Budget Office was commissioned to make an impartial comparison between the littoral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrier builders don&#8217;t buy SecDef&#8217;s plan</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/29/carrier-builders-dont-buy-mabus-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition brought more than 130 members from its 400 constituent companies to Capitol Hill Thursday to urge continued support for the aircraft carrier program. The sixth annual breakfast, held at the Rayburn Building, was attended by Reps. Glenn Nye, D-Va., and Rob Wittman, R-Va. Both serve on the House Armed [...]]]></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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		<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>Navy leadership&#8217;s official blog cleared to engage</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/22/navy-blog-cleared-to-engage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes things happen that you never thought you&#8217;d see in your lifetime &#8212; Deep Throat&#8217;s identity revealed; Fidel Castro out of power (effectively) and now, an official, no-foolin&#8217;, Big Navy blog. Longtime Scoop Deck readers may remember that we told you about Navy Live, as it&#8217;s called, not long after the Deck itself was first [...]]]></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>Whew! Sailors regain access to Fox News site</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/16/whew-sailors-regain-access-to-fox-news-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps not since the Battle of the Java Sea have U.S. Navy personnel had to endure such a withering hardship as the one they struggled with earlier Friday, when &#8212; are you sitting down? &#8212; they couldn&#8217;t view Fox News online. Fox News, of course, was on the case, with a headline on its homepage [...]]]></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>Liberty in New Zealand? Strewth! Well, maybe.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/14/liberty-in-new-zealand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re serving out in the Pacific and you&#8217;ve always wanted to see Middle Earth New Zealand on a port visit, your chances could be improving &#8212; maybe. U.S. warships have been banned from The Land In The Long White Cloud since 1986, when lawmakers there decided no nuclear-powered ships, or ships carrying nuclear weapons, [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<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>Traveling with CNO &#8212; Departure</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-cno-departure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:00:08 +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. Roughead speaks with reporters en route to Kings Bay, Ga., Tuesday morning. (photo by MC2 Kyle Malloy) 0620 Flying with the CNO definitely has its advantages. Here are a few: [...]]]></description>
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