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		<title>New Navy Working Uniform a Hit With Fleet Sailors.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/10/14/new-navy-working-uniform-a-hit-with-fleet-sailors/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/10/14/new-navy-working-uniform-a-hit-with-fleet-sailors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got this in my e-mail last week. You have to admire Sailors and their ability to make a joke out of any situation.
The Navy Times apparently has overlooked this story but it appears that sailors at sea everywhere are applauding the new NWU for its versatility.  Based on empirical data collected it seems that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YokosukaBase.com</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/07/13/yokosukabasecom/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/07/13/yokosukabasecom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the people who read this site came from my previous site, fewl.net. I talked about many of the hot topics in the FDNF and Yokosuka area. Since transferring to Singapore, I&#8217;ve had a higher work load, and less things to actually talk about. Luckily, someone decided to make an unofficial Yokosuka Navy community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving Yokosuka&#8230;Again.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/06/06/leaving-yokosukaagain/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/06/06/leaving-yokosukaagain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthenavy.com/?p=686</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished my class yesterday, and today I&#8217;ll be flying back to Singapore. The George Washington and most of the small boys came home to Yokosuka yesterday, so I decided to head out to The Honch to see if anyone was there. Saying it was overcrowded is an understatement. There were tons of people, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m back in Yokosuka.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/05/25/im-back-in-yokosuka/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/05/25/im-back-in-yokosuka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m back in Yokosuka for a two-week school at ATG. I got all settled in to my BOQ room this evening and walked out of the gate to look around and take in all that is Yoko. I was excited to come back, and the whole flight and bus ride here had me getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The REAL Sailor&#8217;s Creed.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/05/17/the-real-sailors-creed/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/05/17/the-real-sailors-creed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 16:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthenavy.com/?p=431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I haven&#8217;t posted in forever, but my job is taking up my life at the moment. However, I was out at a local bar here in Singapore, and on the wall was a picture of a ship with this inscription. I dub it:
The REAL Sailor&#8217;s Creed.
Between the security of childhood and the insecurity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow me on Twitter.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/05/05/follow-me-on-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/05/05/follow-me-on-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 22:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthenavy.com/?p=159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My apologies for the lack of content. I&#8217;ve been so busy at work, as the LPO again, that I really haven&#8217;t had time to write about anything. I have, however, been pretty active on Twitter. If you don&#8217;t already have one, sign up for a Twitter account and be sure to follow me: http://www.twitter.com/lifeinthenavy
]]></description>
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		<title>Senior Sailor of the Quarter Board.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/04/23/senior-sailor-of-the-quarter-board/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/04/23/senior-sailor-of-the-quarter-board/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthenavy.com/?p=153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Well, I didn&#8217;t make it. I could say it&#8217;s because of this or that, but I did everything right. No worries, because there&#8217;s always next time.
I was nominated for Senior Sailor of the Quarter for the 1st Quarter of 2009. I&#8217;m a little proud, since I&#8217;ve only been here for the same amount of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today, I committed &#8220;douchery.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/04/16/today-i-committed-douchery/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/04/16/today-i-committed-douchery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthenavy.com/?p=147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today wasn&#8217;t a great day. From the get-go at morning PT, I just wasn&#8217;t motivated. I couldn&#8217;t concentrate. I wasn&#8217;t pushing myself. I was just thinking about my 12 hour watch and just feeling pretty indifferent about everything. It was weird. The day dragged on forever, as can be expected, and I didn&#8217;t accomplish much. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Dead Pirates Motivate Anyone Else?</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/04/15/do-dead-pirates-motivate-anyone-else/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/04/15/do-dead-pirates-motivate-anyone-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I begin, let me wish everyone a belated Happy Dead-Pirate Monday. I, for one, could not have been happier for the outcome of the pirate situation. I admit that I thought our &#8220;negotiations&#8221; were some sissy liberal tactic to reach and agreement with piratesterrorists at sea, but I was sooo wrong. In fact, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m LPO.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/30/im-lpo/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/30/im-lpo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthenavy.com/?p=137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize for the lack of posts on my part, but I&#8217;ve recently been promoted, temporarily, to LPO. The current one went on leave for a few weeks, so they decided to bestow it on me. I&#8217;m only been doing it for a few days, but I will say one thing&#8230;I really really don&#8217;t like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yokosuka Naval Hospital CO Bans Smoking.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/24/yokosuka-naval-hospital-co-bans-smoking/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/24/yokosuka-naval-hospital-co-bans-smoking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone from the Naval Hospital in Yokosuka sent me this e-mail:
I might have an interesting story for you that has been kept pretty hush hush by hospital higher ups&#8230;
The USNH Yokosuka&#8217;s commanding officer has implemented a no smoking policy for all hospital staff.  The directors here passed it down to the Chiefs and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the Navy even have Sailors anymore?</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/19/does-the-navy-even-have-sailors-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/19/does-the-navy-even-have-sailors-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthenavy.com/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended a facilitators course on Navy Pride &#038; Professionalism (NP&#038;P). NP&#038;P has replaced the Navy&#8217;s Rights &#038; Responsibilities (NR&#038;R) program, which anyone who has been on a ship will remember as a nearly week long waste of time spent going over PowerPoints about drinking responsibly, sexual harassment, etc. On the first day of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staff Duty is boring.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/17/staff-duty-is-boring/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/17/staff-duty-is-boring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthenavy.com/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I haven&#8217;t started the site off like I did my previous one, but there&#8217;s really nothing going on for me to talk about. It was easy to find blog-fodder in Yokosuka, because the place was run by a bunch of circus monkeys. It&#8217;s a little different here. As I walk around with no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China sending patrol boat to South China Sea.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/15/china-sending-patrol-boat-to-south-china-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/15/china-sending-patrol-boat-to-south-china-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China ups the ante in the tit-for-tat that&#8217;s going on in the South China Sea. Nearly a week after after we sent the Detroyer Chung-Hoon to escort the USNS Impeccable, China has decided to send a &#8220;large patrol boat&#8221; which belongs to the Chinese Fisheries Administration. From the article:
BEIJING: China has deployed a large fisheries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy Destroyer sent to protect ship in Chinese incident.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/13/navy-destroyer-sent-to-protect-ship-in-chinese-incident/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/13/navy-destroyer-sent-to-protect-ship-in-chinese-incident/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
On Wednesday, Navy officials sent the Guided-missile Destroyer Chung-Hoon to the South China Sea, in order to protect the USNS Impeccable from Chinese harassment. I fully expected us to back down and bring IMP back home, but I&#8217;m glad to see we&#8217;re reasserting our right to transit in international waters, and not giving in to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRC ships harass the USNS Impeccable.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/10/prc-ships-harass-the-usns-impeccable/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/10/prc-ships-harass-the-usns-impeccable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I read the OPREP-3 about this some days ago, I didn&#8217;t really think too much of it. Over the past few years, Chinese ships routinely shadow our ships, operating in international waters, in a manner that completely goes against all military courtesy and professionalism. In addition to that, they conduct aggressive fly-bys of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new Navy uniforms kinda suck.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/09/the-new-navy-uniforms-kinda-suck/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/09/the-new-navy-uniforms-kinda-suck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I know I&#8217;m a little late to the party regarding the Navy&#8217;s new uniforms, but I couldn&#8217;t help but to give my two cents. I remember filling out the survey on these uniforms when they were originally proposed, and while I&#8217;m happy we&#8217;re getting the digi-blue BDU style Navy Working Uniform (NWU), I absolutely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEWL.NET is now LifeInTheNavy.com</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/09/fewlnet-is-now-lifeinthenavycom/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthenavy.com/2009/03/09/fewlnet-is-now-lifeinthenavycom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I apologize for anyone who has been going to FEWL in hopes of new posts, but it's taken me forever to decide what to do with it. As you can probably tell, it's officially closed. I'd been trying to figure out just where I wanted to go with the site. I wasn't miserable in Japan anymore, and I just had no motivation to keep talking about the drama that was going on in the FDNF.]]></description>
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