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A good day for a swim?

There is just something about Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training that is, well, photogenic. The grueling, six-month training course at the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado, Calif., is no...

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Carl Vinson heads to sea

The carrier Carl Vinson left Naval Air Station North Island, Calif., on Tuesday for three weeks of training followed by a scheduled deployment. Here are some photos the Navy took as sailors boarded the...

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Cubs and BCGs

The recruits at Great Lakes had a visit last week from the Cubs. The picture above shows Cubs’ top-prospect reliever Andrew Cashner talking to future sailors on Jan. 13. Things change at Great Lakes...

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It’s a real FRUKUS

No, we haven’t lost our sense of decorum here at Scoop Deck. FRUKUS 2011 is an invitational naval exercise now underway off the Virginia coast involving ships from Russia, France, the U.K. and the U.S....

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2nd Fleet … fading from view

The path toward the Sept. 30 disestablishment of 2nd Fleet, the command that oversees all Atlantic-based naval operations and the training and certification of fleet battle groups, and its merger with...

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That flag

I remember a 1990-ish visit to a Japanese submarine base and being dumbfounded to see the subs flying the rising sun flag off their stern masts. Dumbfounded, because being, ahem, of a certain age, I...

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The warm relationship with Chile

The quiet diesel-electric submarine Carrera slid through San Diego Bay on Sept. 1 for the start of a three-month deployment to the United States, where the Chilean boat will train with 3rd Fleet’s...

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Down and dirty

The carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower is underway in the Atlantic conducting carrier qualifications for naval aviators, but it’s the unglamorous and often tedious work below decks that keeps the fliers...

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No pain, no gain

So you want to be a Navy master-at-arms or join a ship’s security force? Know that this is a hurdle you’ll have to clear: Yep, that’s a faceful of Oleoresin Capsicum spray — a staple of master-at-arms...

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Haze gray and underway

This simple yet atmospheric photo should resonate with anyone who’s ever been at sea …

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Busy days and nights aboard Ike

The Norfolk-based carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower is deep into the basic phase of pre-deployment training while underway in the Atlantic. Technically, it’s taking part in a Tailored Ship’s Training...

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Rescue swimmers … are awesome

No matter what the service, military rescue swimmers are a pretty remarkable bunch. In addition to being skilled at their normal rating duties, they’re able — and willing — to be lowered into some...

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Bold Alligator

I’m spending Friday AM cruising south to MCAS Cherry Point, N.C., where I’m to take a noon hop out to the Wasp to begin Navy Times’ coverage of a certain gi-normous amphibious training exercise you may...

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Rough day at Bold Alligator

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...

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Mullen honored at SWO School

He may have retired in September, but retired Adm. Mike Mullen’s legacy lives. An auditorium was dedicated in his name March 1 before a graduation ceremony at Surface Warfare Officers School in...

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It’s just a drill: USS Princeton target in mock attack

Buoyed by some Hollywood hype, the Navy’s weeklong large-scale training exercise “Solid Curtain/Citadel Shield” generated a bit more excitement today than the annual security drill tends to muster...

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Training video got Navy vet Bob Barker’s goat

For Navy veteran Bob Barker, the price is never right when it comes to using goats to train Navy and Coast Guard medical personnel. He’s written a letter to both Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and...

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