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		<title>Love and the Navy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/09/love-and-the-navy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day will be particularly special for all the couples reunited in Norfolk this week after the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group&#8217;s return from that insanely long 10 1/2-month deployment. But since it falls on a Tuesday, those with duty, as well as many of us working stiffs, are more likely to take our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brrrrrrrr&#8230;..it&#8217;s cold out there</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/06/brrrrrrrr-its-cold-out-there/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/06/brrrrrrrr-its-cold-out-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[7th Fleet]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=10166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When temperatures go below freezing, perhaps the last place you&#8217;d want to place your lips is anything made of metal. Anyone who&#8217;s ever played in a marching or military band for an outdoor performance knows that the show must go on, regardless of Mother Nature&#8217;s moods. That&#8217;s  just what some members of the U.S. 7th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rough day at Bold Alligator</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/06/rough-day-at-bold-alligator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amphibious operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bold Alligator]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between rolling blackouts and very limited connectivity, the press gaggle I was with out on Wasp and Kearsarge this weekend had a devil of a time getting on line long enough to transmit stories back to land. Timing is everything. I finally managed to get one sent Sunday night from Kearsarge that was posted Monday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Bold Alligator 2012 underway</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/05/operation-bold-alligator-2012-underway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Lamothe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admirals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amphibious operations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bold Alligator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABOARD THE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIP WASP — Greetings from the Atlantic Ocean, where we’re covering the largest amphibious exercise on the East Coast since the beginning of the Iraq war. Bold Alligator 2012 involves at least 14,000 personnel from the U.S., France, Great Britain and other countries, and at least 25 ships. The majority of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Battleship&#8217; preview set for Super Bowl</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/03/battleship-preview-set-for-super-bowl/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/03/battleship-preview-set-for-super-bowl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Lilley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Battleships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s shaping up to be a traditional Super Bowl Sunday: A six-hour pregame show followed by football, snacks, drinks, aliens, surface warships and Liam Neeson. The last part might need an explainer. &#8220;Battleship,&#8221; the action movie somehow based on the board game of the same name, will debut in theaters this May, but you&#8217;ll get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bold Alligator</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/02/bold-alligator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amphibious operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bold Alligator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m spending Friday AM cruising south to MCAS Cherry Point, N.C., where I&#8217;m to take a noon hop out to the Wasp to begin Navy Times&#8217; coverage of a certain gi-normous amphibious training exercise you may have heard of by now. Bold Alligator is the biggest Navy-Marine Corps at-sea training exercise in some 10 years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hand is an amazing, yet creepy, Navy development</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/02/02/hand-is-an-amazing-yet-creepy-navy-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Navy has developed one of the most realistic prosthetic limbs ever. Creepily realistic. The picture appeared on the Navy&#8217;s Facebook page but it didn&#8217;t include many details. What is clear is that it&#8217;s part of the Navy&#8217;s ongoing work to make wounded service members as whole as possible. Needless to say, this is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We should all live so long &#8212; and well</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/31/we-should-all-live-so-long-and-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amphibious operations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reaching 100 years of age is remarkable enough. But the Navy made it extra special for a former Navy Seabee Dec. 2. Retired Capt. James R. Mims, the nation&#8217;s oldest living Seabee, was made an honorary member of Amphibious Construction Battalion 2 by the unit&#8217;s top sailor, Command Master Chief (SCW) Johnny DeSarro, during Mims&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A public apology for barfing on the COD</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/30/a-public-apology-for-barfing-on-the-cod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear VRC-40 “The Rawhides,” I’m just writing to apologize for getting airsick in your C-2A Greyhound. It was certainly unintentional. You handled the plane with steady hands as we flew from Naval Air Station Mayport, Fla., to the carrier Enterprise last week. We even had weather on our side, allowing for a particularly calm flight. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top SEAL: Amid Hollywood hoopla, quiet preferred</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/27/top-seal-amid-hollywood-hoopla-quiet-preferred/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Navy’s “silent” warriors won’t exactly be off radar when “Act of Valor” hits the theaters in February. The movie, produced by the Bandito Brothers, is notable for the use of some real Navy SEALs, rather than more actors, to portray the commandos. Since the successful killing of Osama bin Laden last year, and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rudy&#8217;s one-liners</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/27/rudy-the-card/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retired Master Chief Rudy Boesch earned more than a few laughs Friday during his remarks at the East Coast SEALs&#8217; celebration of the SEALs&#8217; 50th anniversary (the West Coast SEALs marked it two weeks ago), both centered around his post-SEAL Team 2 days. The 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act helped spark the 1987 formation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naval Academy&#8217;s &#8216;South Pacific&#8217; is a secret</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/24/naval-academys-south-pacific-is-a-secret/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/24/naval-academys-south-pacific-is-a-secret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenn Rafael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Naval Academy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next month, Naval Academy midshipmen will perform possibly the most nautical musical ever to hit Broadway &#8212; but you wouldn&#8217;t know it by reading the school&#8217;s announcement of tickets for the winter musical. It&#8217;s South Pacific, but &#8220;licensing restrictions prohibit releasing the name of the production in this announcement.&#8221; The story is set on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McRaven, Navy spouse among first lady&#8217;s State of the Union guests</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/24/mcraven-navy-spouse-among-first-ladys-state-of-the-union-guests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adm. William McRaven, the nation&#8217;s top special operator, and Navy spouse Adrienne Howard will join first lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden for tonight&#8217;s State of the Union address, the White House announced today. The invitations honor veteran Navy SEAL McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, who as commander of Joint Special Operations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy cooks vie to be region&#8217;s `Top Chef&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/24/navy-cooks-vie-to-be-regions-top-chef/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/24/navy-cooks-vie-to-be-regions-top-chef/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least seven teams of Navy culinary specialists from Mid-Atlantic Region are sharpening their knives for Wednesday&#8217;s big 2012 &#8220;Top Chef&#8221; galley cook-off at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek &#8211; Fort Story. (Blog entry aside: Isn&#8217;t that the most ungainly possible name for a military base? Sure hard to fit on the front of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deployed sailor: It’s OK to be gay</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/23/deployed-sailor-its-ok-to-be-gay/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/23/deployed-sailor-its-ok-to-be-gay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the end of the ban on gays serving openly last year, sailors have been coming forward about their sexual identity in ways large and small to their shipmates. Now, deployed soldiers — and one sailor — at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan have filmed a message that it’s OK to be gay. “It’s hard being [...]]]></description>
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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>Pirate station DJ gives new meaning to &#8220;air traffic&#8221; rating</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/19/pirate-station-gives-new-meaning-to-air-traffic-rating/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/19/pirate-station-gives-new-meaning-to-air-traffic-rating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A retired Navy air traffic controller was arrested in December for operating a pirate radio station he ran out of his Fort Myers, Fla., home, AP reported Monday. According to the AP, community activist Albert Knighten now faces a felony charge of operating a radio station without a license &#8212; ahead of the government taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not-so-fair winds at farewell</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/17/not-so-fair-winds-at-farewell/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/17/not-so-fair-winds-at-farewell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deployment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The temperature would rise to near 60 in Hampton Roads Tuesday, but winds gusting to 37 mph made it feel 45ish &#8212; and it always feels colder down at the Naval Station Norfolk waterfront, where the frigate Nicholas left around 10 a.m. How windy was it? The line handlers had to go hatless: The chop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living la dolce vita on a former Soviet carrier</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/16/living-la-dolce-vita-on-a-soviet-carrier/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/16/living-la-dolce-vita-on-a-soviet-carrier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something utterly incongruous about the setup, but a Chinese company is opening a luxury hotel on board a retired Kiev-class Soviet aircraft carrier. That&#8217;s right. One of these: Has bedrooms like these: And lounges like these: Crazy, no? The country that starved or killed millions in the name of communist purity and military dominance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for new job &#8230; and country?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/12/looking-for-new-job-and-country/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/12/looking-for-new-job-and-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Navy is obviously downsizing and by many accounts losing some darn good sailors in the convoluted process &#8212; all due to the ongoing economic downturn and pressure on overall defense spending. Staunch ally Great Britain is facing the same sorts of pressures and trimming its forces. Meanwhile, the military of another strong ally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The word of the day is&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/12/the-word-of-the-day-is/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/12/the-word-of-the-day-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Zorching&#8221; As in hustling, or zooming, or cruising really, really fast. During a Jan. 11 press conference, Capt. John Kirby, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for media operations, expanded our vocabulary with this term. He was talking about aircraft carrier presence near Iran, particularly the recent arrival of the carrier Carl Vinson, and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mentoring Afghan lawyers &#8230; and future leaders</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/09/mentoring-afghan-lawyers-and-future-leaders/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/09/mentoring-afghan-lawyers-and-future-leaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Navy lawyer has been helping mentor five young Afghan law students from Balkh University while preparing to take part in the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition. Lt. Megan Romigh and Department of State Foreign Service Officer Jeff Arnold joined a USAID team that provided &#8220;support and mentoring&#8221; to the team in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep calm and carry on</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/06/keep-calm-and-carry-on/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/06/keep-calm-and-carry-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite trash-talk from Iran, the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group is keeping its cool. After practicing blockading the Strait of Hormuz, a highway for about 20 percent of the world&#8217;s oil supply, Iranian Army chief Ataollah Salehi pledged consequences if a U.S. aircraft carrier entered the Persian Golf. &#8220;I advise, recommend and warn them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mold inspections continue in Hampton Roads</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/06/mold-inspections-continue-in-hampton-roads/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/06/mold-inspections-continue-in-hampton-roads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Navy this week met with another six families who live in Lincoln Military Housing units in Hampton Roads to review mold inspection reports prepared by an independent licensed and state-certified contractor, Marine Chemist Service, Inc., according to Navy Region Mid-Atlantic. No results have yet been made public. The inspections stem from complaints by more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three new ships named after Marines — but did the Navy get it right?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/06/three-new-ships-named-after-marines-but-did-the-navy-get-it-right/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/06/three-new-ships-named-after-marines-but-did-the-navy-get-it-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Lamothe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Above, you see the destroyer Jason Dunham. It&#8217;s named after Cpl. Jason Dunham, who covered a grenade with his helmet on April 14, 2004, in an attempt to shield the blast from fellow Marines. He died eight days later, and received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroism on Jan. 11, 2007. No human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So much for retirement &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/04/so-much-for-retirement/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/04/so-much-for-retirement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admirals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Canadian security firm has added the former commander of Navy Region Mid-Atlantic to its board of directors. On Jan. 3, security and identity management company Route1 Inc. announced the appointment of Rear Adm. Mark S. Boensel, who retired Jan. 1 after more than 33 years of service. Boensel, who spent his last four years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The USS Gingerbready Roosevelt</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/04/the-uss-ginger-bready-roosevelt/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/01/04/the-uss-ginger-bready-roosevelt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When he&#8217;s not overseeing the next generation of naval aircraft, complex machines of composite materials, sophisticated software and engineering wizardry, Vice Adm. David Architzel, CO of Naval Air Systems Command, works with something much simpler &#8211;  namely flour, sugar and lots and lots of icing. Over the holidays Architzel, his wife, his son and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The need for speed is an addiction</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/30/the-need-for-speed-is-an-addiction/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/30/the-need-for-speed-is-an-addiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Cruise is going to put on a flight suit one more time. The Daily News, citing an interview with MTV, said that Cruise is up for a sequel to &#8220;Top Gun,&#8221; the 1986 movie that sparked a wave of interest and appreciation for Naval Aviation. It would put Cruise, as well as Top Gun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rhyme scheme of the ancient mariner</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/30/rhyme-scheme-of-the-ancient-mariner/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/30/rhyme-scheme-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no such thing as quals for poetry, but whoever stands the midwatch on New Year&#8217;s Day may want to brush up on their iambic pentameter. Traditionally, the first entry in the early morning hours of New Year&#8217;s Day includes a poem about the ship. Some are more inspired than others but they all typically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Kiss&#8221; seen around the world</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/23/the-kiss-seen-around-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/23/the-kiss-seen-around-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blair Tomlinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta, left, kisses her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach, Va., Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2011, after Gaeta&#8217;s ship, USS Oak Hill, returned from 80 days at sea. It&#8217;s a time-honored tradition at Navy homecomings &#8211; one lucky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas tale, submarine-version</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/21/a-christmas-tale-submarine-version/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“ ‘Twas the night before Christmas and what no one could see / The men with dolphins were under the sea.” So begins the epic 8-minute Christmas video from the submarine force, with sailors from Kings Bay, Ga., to Yokosuka, Japan, reciting verses of “ ‘Twas the night before Christmas — Submarine Style.” In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You never marched like this</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/21/you-never-marched-like-this/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/21/you-never-marched-like-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how much you loved your sub and how well you can march, or the weird ideas that fermented in your brain after weeks underway without sunlight, you never, not once, thought of doing anything like the formations the West Virginia University Marching Band pulled off. The whole clip is good and worth a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;America&#8217;s Worst Bosses&#8221; list includes former CO, XO</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/20/americas-worst-bosses-list-includes-two-fired-cos/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/20/americas-worst-bosses-list-includes-two-fired-cos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abusive leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of those end-of-year best-of/worst-of lists that multiply like flies this time of year. But this one caught the eye for two reasons: It purports to list America&#8217;s Worst Bosses &#8212; and who hasn&#8217;t got a story to tell about an awful supervisor? &#8212; and it lists a former Navy commanding officer and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy spouses assail sailor cuts</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/20/navy-spouses-assail-sailor-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/20/navy-spouses-assail-sailor-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navy spouses upset with the latest round of sailor cuts are going on the offensive with a new video released Monday. The 5-minute-long video challenges the Navy’s rationale for sending home 2,947 sailors next year and urges viewers to sign a petition started a day before. The video quotes Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special delivery</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/20/special-delivery/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/20/special-delivery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Northrop Grumman&#8217;s unmanned carrier aircraft drew some attention in Kansas, where people thought it was a UFO hitching a ride on a flatbed truck. If you watch until the end, you&#8217;ll hear the anchor say that the aircraft is headed to  Maryland.  This morning on its Facebook page Naval Air Systems Command announced that an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rescue swimmers &#8230; are awesome</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/19/rescue-swimmers-are-awesome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amphibious operations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter what the service, military rescue swimmers are a pretty remarkable bunch. In addition to being skilled at their normal rating duties, they&#8217;re able &#8212; and willing &#8212; to be lowered into some pretty hair-raising situations that most normal folks would regard as out of the realm of possibility. The Atlantic waters looked to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Battleship&#8221; redux</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/16/battleship-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/16/battleship-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you can&#8217;t wait six more months to see it in theaters, there&#8217;s a new trailer for &#8220;Battleship.&#8221; We&#8217;ve written about this flick before, but this new preview includes near non-stop shoot&#8217;em-up action against bug-like aliens and their cyborg technology. And one more thing, this movie is obviously pushing some sort of agenda&#8230; just look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new Old Salt</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/15/a-new-old-salt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chief of naval operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fleet Forces Command]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Norfolk Naval Station]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By custom, the surface warfare officer with the earliest Officer of the Deck qualification is recognized as the Navy&#8217;s &#8220;Old Salt&#8221; &#8212; an award initiated in 1988 by the Surface Navy Association. On Friday, that distinction will be bestowed on Adm. John Harvey, commander of Fleet Forces Command, in a ceremony aboard the amphibious transport [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CVN 70, the blog</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/15/cvn-70-the-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/15/cvn-70-the-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Besides Facebook and Twitter and the other social media outlets that have become routine ways to keep in touch with deployed ships, the carrier Carl Vinson is keeping a Tumblr blog. With posts from a gaggle of sailors across the ship, it&#8217;s geared to sailors and filled with advice about how to make life at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The singing CNO</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/14/the-singing-cno/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/14/the-singing-cno/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chief of naval operations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christmas carols]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CNO’s first holiday video has a soundtrack – and backup singers. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jon Greenert carols along with his wife Darleen, backed up by the 8-member a cappella group the Navy Sea Chanters in his holiday message, posted online Tuesday. “Happy holidays shipmates,” Greenert says above the cooing carolers. “We thank you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google wants to pay to upgrade and save Hangar One</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/12/google-wants-to-pay-to-upgrade-and-save-hangar-one/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/12/google-wants-to-pay-to-upgrade-and-save-hangar-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naval aviation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hangar One]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hangar One, built in 1933 at Moffett Field  in Mountain View, Calif., is currently in a state of undress. That&#8217;s because the corrugated siding covering the massive hangar, deemed toxic to the environment, is being replaced. Just to note, it&#8217;s a Navy hangar, but  NASA is footing the bill to take care of it. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating the Wrights, and naval aviation&#8217;s 100th</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/08/celebrating-the-wrights-and-naval-aviations-100th/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/08/celebrating-the-wrights-and-naval-aviations-100th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naval aviation centennial]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[East Coast aviation buffs should mark their calendars for Saturday, Dec. 17, when the 108th Celebration of Powered Flight will be held at the Wright Brothers National Monument in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. Well, it&#8217;s probably not exactly the 108th celebration &#8230; no one likely paid any attention to such things for a few decades. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of an era</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/06/end-of-an-era/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/12/06/end-of-an-era/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McMichael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[6th Fleet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Combat support]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commanding officers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Odyssey Dawn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 7, 1970, the Beatles released their last single: &#8220;The Long and Winding Road.&#8221; Last week, the amphibious transport dock Ponce, launched 13 days after the song and commissioned in July 1971, completed its own long journey, coming home for the last time after four decades of service. Those years were filled with significant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lights out</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/30/lights-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The holidays may be a little dimmer this year. In an effort to cut down energy use, Rear Adm. Phil Collum, the director of the Navy&#8217;s Energy and Environmental Readiness Division, is pushing sailors to use energy-efficient holiday lighting when they decorate their ships. But some energy-efficient lights, namely LEDs, don&#8217;t shine as brightly as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elves in orange vests</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/29/elves-in-orange-vests/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/29/elves-in-orange-vests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenn Rafael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The seagoing buoy tender Alder has a new mission: spreading holiday cheer. The cutter is carrying hundreds of trees to needy Chicago families as the city&#8217;s &#8220;Christmas ship.&#8221; On Monday, the cutter&#8217;s crew took on the holiday cargo in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The seagoing buoy tender/icebreaker Mackinaw normally does the honors. Its crew delivered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lasers on deck</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/29/lasers-on-deck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop hostile skiffs with a zap. Down enemy drones, too. These are some of the selling points of a new shipboard solid-state laser. Boeing and BAE Systems received a $2.8 million contract to test the 10-kilowatt commercial laser installed onto the 25mm gun mount, which is used aboard ship, in 2012. After decades of development, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The shirt&#8217;s a medium, but the the error is an XXL</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/29/bad-shirt/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/29/bad-shirt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=9669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting on the shelf at a Navy Exchange is a piece of commemorative naval aviation memorabilia that&#8217;s as authentic as a $20 Rolex. As blogger CDR Salamander posted, the garment depicted below is for sale at an unnamed exchange. The issue: The aircraft depicted on the shirt has zilch to do with the Navy &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Reality Check&#8221; &#8212; A New &#8220;Spiced&#8221; episode.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/29/reality-check-a-new-spiced-episode/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/29/reality-check-a-new-spiced-episode/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Faram</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When we last saw Josh and Greg in April, the Navy&#8217;s inseparable and loveable pot-smoking puppets had experienced a major hiccup in their friendship as outlined in Scoop Deck post here. That came, of course, after Josh turned his best friend in for smoking spice. After that, Greg was kicked out of the Navy. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And then there are two</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/28/and-then-there-are-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly three years ago, the Navy and defense giant Northrop Grumman Corp. unveiled the X-47B unmanned air system in Palmdale, Calif., showing off the bat-wing-like tailless and pilotless autonomous bomber that is designed to take off and land on aircraft carriers. In February, the first air vehicle made history when it completed its first real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down Under, memories of another ‘Pearl Harbor’</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/25/down-under-memories-of-another-%e2%80%98pearl-harbor%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/11/25/down-under-memories-of-another-%e2%80%98pearl-harbor%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gidget Fuentes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor stands out as a critical turning point in our nation’s history. Next month, we mark the 70th anniversary, and the nation will join countless veterans and service members in recalling the sacrifice from that day and the amazing generation that stepped up and answered the nation&#8217;s call. [...]]]></description>
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