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		<title>You’re a SEAL Stranded in Hostile Territory: What&#8217;s in Your Survival Kit?</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/02/21/youre-a-seal-stranded-in-hostile-territory-whats-in-your-survival-kit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEALs aren’t supposed to find themselves in trouble that they can’t get out of. That’s why the Navy is seeking to buy 300 new survival kits for the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, sometimes known as Navy SEAL Team 6. They’re the guys who raided Osama bin Laden&#8217;s compound in May 2011 and sent him on an all-expenses-paid trip to the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Save for the downed stealthy MH-60 Black Hawk chopper, the mission was a grand success. But, being military men, they have to prepare for worst-case scenarios. That’s where Wednesday’s solicitation for what they call Personnel Recovery and Survival Kits comes in. “The Naval Special Warfare Development Group (NSWDG) has a requirement to procure personnel recovery and survival kits (part number 0293-D) on a brand name or equal basis,” it says. “The brand name is SOLKOA [visit their website here]. If quoting an equal product, vendor shall provide all salient characteristics in order to be considered for award.” (PHOTOS: Navy SEALs in Action) While Navy folks didn’t rush to answer Battleland’s questions about how much the kits are expected to cost, and if they&#8217;ve changed recently, it’s neat to peek inside to see what&#8217;s there. But first of all, the SEALs have been known to wreck things. Like helicopters. So the survival kits – a complete kit includes both hard and soft cases &#8212; have to be able to endure SEAL abuse. The hard case is 4-by-2-by-1.2 inches, weighing six ounces or less, and available in both “Desert Tan” or “OD/Forest Green.” Beyond those particulars, the hard case shall be: &#8211; Capable of limited cooking without effecting the container finish (i.e. paint bubbling) &#8211; Capable of being used as a limited digging implement without affecting its ability to house contents (simultaneous function of digging and housing not required). &#8211; Shall have a weather resistant gasket able to keep out water during minor water immersion (i.e. river crossings, swimming) &#8211; Shall have a fastening system that is reuseable and secure to prevent accidental openings &#8211; Top<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=107849&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Special Operations</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/special-operations/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timemilitary.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/114335094.jpg?w=240</featured_image>
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		<title>‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Filmmakers Defend Their Story of Osama at the D.C. Premiere</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/09/zero-dark-thirty-filmmakers-defend-their-story-of-osama-at-the-d-c-premiere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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			<media:title type="html">&#34;Zero Dark Thirty&#34; - Los Angeles Premiere - After Party</media:title>
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		<title>PSS-SOF</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/09/28/pss-sof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bet you can&#8217;t guess how this shorthand for Precision Strike Suite for Special Operations Forces is pronounced&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=86914&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Cool Military Acronyms</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/cool-military-acronyms/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Iran Unplugged: Preview of Coming Attractions?</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/09/18/iran-unplugged-preview-of-coming-attractions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran’s nuclear-energy chief said Monday that his nation’s most heavily defended nuclear-enrichment plant had been unplugged with extreme prejudice last month. Actually, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani said the electrical lines powering the buried plant at Fordow from the nearby city of Qom had been blown up by unknown saboteurs. The same thing happened at Iran’s Natanz plant at an unspecified earlier date, he told the annual member-state session of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. The world fears Tehran – which says it wants to develop nuclear power solely for peaceful purposes – is seeking nuclear weapons. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Sunday that Iran was six to seven months away from being able to build an atomic bomb. &#8220;It should be recalled,” Abbasi-Davani told the IAEA, “that power cut-off is one of the ways to break down centrifuge machines.” No kidding. For years, U.S. war planners looking for ways to attack such sites have focused on their so-called “umbilicals” – the power, air and water links that any major industrial facility requires to operate. With those destroyed, any industrial site becomes very expensive pile of scrap. Hardening such systems against such ancillary attacks could prove daunting. “A functional defeat may be achieved by various means: closing ingress/egress portals, destroying umbilicals such as electrical power lines, phone line and radio antennas, or by denying life-support systems relating to air and water supplies,” a 2004 Air Force study noted. Emphasis added.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=85287&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Nuclear Weapons</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/nuclear-weapons-2/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timemilitary.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/iran.jpg?w=240</featured_image>
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		<title>11 Years Later: The Unquiet Hero</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/09/11/11-years-later-the-unquiet-hero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching ex-SEAL Matt Bissonnette on 60 Minutes was equal parts fascinating and disturbing.

Eleven years since the horror of 9/11, some of us watched, transfixed, as someone who gave his word never to write of what he had experienced without a U.S. government pre-pub scrub, circumspectly spilled his guts to Scott Pelley Sunday night.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=84289&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>National Security</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/national-security/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timemilitary.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/mwsp.png?w=240</featured_image>
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		<title>Trimming the Training Mission</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/09/04/trimming-the-training-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headline in Sunday's Washington Post was pretty stark:

    Afghan Recruit Training Halted

…it said.

A quick read of the article offered the reader no clue that the halt affects only about 3% of the entire U.S.-led Afghan training mission. It is designed to weed out poorly-vetted Afghan village police who might turn their guns on U.S. and allied troops.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=83487&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHAM* (*winning hearts and minds)</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/08/24/wham-winning-hearts-and-minds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Winning hearts and minds” has been a key to recent U.S. wars ranging from Vietnam, to Iraq, and now in Afghanistan.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=82198&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Navy Skippers: The Gift that Keeps on Giving</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/08/14/navy-skippers-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ernest Borgnine, God bless him, may have passed on, but real Navy skippers can fill the void left by Lieut. Commander Quinton McHale’s passing. Check out the latest from the New London Day: Navy Cmdr. Michael P. Ward II, who has been accused of having an affair with a 23-year-old Chesapeake, Va., woman and faking his death as a means of ending it, has been relieved of his duties as the commanding officer of the USS Pittsburgh, just one week after he was put in command. The newspaper, near the major Navy submarine base in Groton, Conn., reported that the unnamed woman alleges she met Ward, 43, on a dating website last October. Ward told her, she alleged, that he was separated from his wife when, in fact, he is married with three children. He also told her, she alleged that he worked in “special ops,” a flashing red light if there ever were one. She said he got her pregnant then, in an effort to end the relationship, faked his death in an email communication in July…&#8221;I don&#8217;t want revenge here,&#8221; the woman said in a telephone interview Sunday. &#8220;I want everyone to know the truth about Michael. He does not need to be commanding a submarine. He&#8217;s a deceitful man.&#8221; How and why Ward was permitted to take command of the Los Angeles-class attack sub Pittsburgh – a ceremony attended by his 93-year-old grandmother – only a week before he was booted remains unclear. The Navy investigation continues.  He is the 13th Navy commanding officer cashiered this year. “The U.S. Navy has an integrity problem in the ranks of its commanding officers,” Navy Captain Mark Light writes in the summer issue of the Naval War College Review. “Even more worrisome is the fact that a large and increasing percentage of those dismissals are due to personal misconduct, such as sexual harassment, drunkenness, and fraternization.” Thank God Tim Conway’s hapless Ensign Charles Parker, McHale’s sidekick, is still with us. He may be the only one who can explain what’s happening inside<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=80895&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Takes A Pass &#8212; For Now &#8212; On China Sea Disputes</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/06/11/u-s-takes-a-pass-for-now-on-china-sea-disputes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk Spitzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO – The territorial disputes in the South China Seas are over, China has won, and the U.S. couldn’t care less. But that’s not necessarily bad. While arguments over who owns which reefs, rocks and lagoons in the South China Sea will likely drag on awhile, the U.S. is saving its powder for a more important fight: keeping vital shipping lanes free from potential interference. A months-long standoff over a remote reef system claimed by both China and the Philippines all but ended this weekend when the Obama administration signaled it would not intervene.  That means Chinese patrol boats, which in April chased a Philippines’ warship from the Scarborough Shoal, will remain there as long they want. So, too, will Chinese fishing and commercial exploration ships. That’s bad news for the neighbors. China has claimed virtually all of the South China Sea as its own, along with potentially huge deposits of oil, gas and other natural resources. The region includes the Spratly Islands, Scarborough Shoal and other scattered islets and shallows variously claimed by Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia and Brunei.  If the U.S. won’t wade in on behalf of the Philippines, with which it shares a 60-year-old mutual defense treaty, then it sure won’t do so for anybody else. Without U.S. or other outside help, those countries will have little choice but to accept the Chinese claims, and cut whatever joint-development deals they can. Yes, that could embolden China to make additional new demands (more on that later), but the bigger worry is whether China will use its growing air and sea power to threaten movement through the region. More than half the world’s commercial shipping passes through the South China Sea, including nearly all Mideast oil bound for Japan, South Korea, China and Southeast Asia. Just the threat of interrupting that flow could give China serious leverage in any dispute. “The U.S. is not going to send the 7th Fleet to resolve problems with fish or coral in the South China Sea, because that is not the vital interest<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=76147&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Suspect Reports from Both Sides of the DMZ</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/06/05/more-suspect-reports-from-both-sides-of-the-dmz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve learned that U.S. Army Brigadier General Neil Tolley is being rotated from his post as head of U.S. Special Forces in South Korea days after he ignited a controversy by declaring that U.S. and South Korean special forces have been parachuting into North Korean on spy missions. Initially, the U.S. military said Tolley was the innocent victim of “made up” quotes by David Axe, who reported the news in the Asian journal The Diplomat. “Quotes have been made up and attributed to him,” its statement said. But Sean Naylor, long-time reporter for Army Times quickly spoke up, saying he’d heard Tolley say the same thing at a Tampa special-ops confab (which, come to think of it, seems like a contradiction). But by the time Naylor came to Axe’s aid, The Diplomat had scrubbed Axe’s original story from its website, suggesting his reporting had been suspect, if not wrong. But, after a couple of days, Tolley himself tweaked the story anew. “After further review of the reporting,” he said, “I feel I was accurately quoted.” He said he had been speaking hypothetically, and that such missions have never occurred. The U.S. military is saying Tolley’s move, after 18 months in the job, is part of a normal rotation. Meanwhile, from the North, the general staff of the North Korean People’s Army announced its troops have targeted the Seoul headquarters of the Chosun Ilbo, the Joongang Ilbo, and the Dong-A Ilbo newspapers as well as KBS, MBC and SBS television stations, and CBS radio: Officers and men of the army corps, divisions and regiments on the front and strategic rocket forces in the depth of the country are loudly calling for the issue of order to mete out punishment, declaring that they have already targeted Chosun Ilbo at coordinates of 37 degrees 56 minutes 83 seconds North Latitude and 126 degrees 97 minutes 65 seconds East Longitude in the Central District, Seoul, Choongang Ilbo at coordinates of 37 degrees 33 minutes 45 seconds North Latitude and 126 degrees 58 minutes 14 seconds<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=75665&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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