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 <title>New Opportunities At Sea</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Interest in the United Statesâ€™ seven Merchant Marine academies is growing as commercial shipping sustains its worldwide boom, and the demand for licensed mariners continues apace. While many of the academies maintain their own training ships, and offer opportunities for on-the-job training on U.S.-flagged and foreign commercial ships, openings still lag behind the number of interested cadets. [<a href="http://matthew-hilburn.com/media/mhilburn/march0804.pdf">Entire article</a>]]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:52:21 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>INTERVIEW: Sen. James H. Webb Jr. from Virginia</title>
 <link>http://matthew-hilburn.comindex.php?itemid=159</link>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. James H. Webb Jr. is the junior senator from Virginia. The first-term Democrat serves on the Foreign Relations, Armed<br />
Services, Veterans Affairs and Joint Economic committees. [<a href="http://matthew-hilburn.com/media/mhilburn/march0803.pdf">Entire article]</a>]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:50:37 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Cooldown on MRAP</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The fervor to get thousands of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles to troops in Iraq â€” a drive fueled by mounting casualties resulting from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) there and political rancor here â€” may be cooling. [<a href="http://matthew-hilburn.com/media/mhilburn/march0802.pdf">Entire article</a>]]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:48:51 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Expanding the Panama Canal</title>
 <link>http://matthew-hilburn.comindex.php?itemid=157</link>
<description><![CDATA[Expansion of the Panama Canal could be an economic boon to ports in the southeastern United States, but experts warn that most U.S. ports and their attending infrastructure are not ready to handle the larger ships and the surge in cargo they will bring. [<a href="http://matthew-hilburn.com/media/mhilburn/march0801.pdf">Entire article</a>]]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:46:58 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>Marines continue to hone special operations role in SOCOM</title>
 <link>http://matthew-hilburn.comindex.php?itemid=156</link>
<description><![CDATA[When Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) was stood up two years ago, some expressed uncertainty about the<br />
combat-stretched Corps losing thousands of Marines to another command. Now, having deployed around the world to train foreign militaries and conduct combat missions in Afghanistan, the command continues to grow and transform. [<a href="http://matthew-hilburn.com/media/mhilburn/feb0801.pdf">Entire article</a>]]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:38:46 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>INTERVIEW: Brig Gen. George J. Allen</title>
 <link>http://matthew-hilburn.comindex.php?itemid=155</link>
<description><![CDATA[Brig Gen. George J. Allen is the director for Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4), and chief information officer<br />
for the U.S. Marine Corps. As such, he oversees all of the serviceâ€™s information technology (IT) procurements and investments. [<a href="http://matthew-hilburn.com/media/mhilburn/december0702.pdf">Entire article</a>]]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:36:30 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>New Data Technologies for MDA</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The shrinking U.S. Navy cannot be everywhere at once. Even the navies of friendly nations banded together would have a hard time providing the detail of maritime domain awareness required by todayâ€™s increasingly complex and disperse sets of seaborne challenges and potential threats. [<a href="http://matthew-hilburn.com/media/mhilburn/december0701.pdf">Entire article</a>]]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:50:32 -0700</pubDate>
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 <title>MARAD reaches out to develop plan to ensure transportation system can handle stress of future cargo traffic</title>
 <link>http://matthew-hilburn.comindex.php?itemid=153</link>
<description><![CDATA[American ports will see an unprecedented increase in the amount of maritime cargo they must process in the coming years. That growth will put an enormous amount of stress not only on port infrastructure, but on the various modes of commercial transport out of those ports. [<a href="http://matthew-hilburn.com/media/mhilburn/november02.pdf">Entire article</a>]]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:10:58 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>U.S. Harrier pilots see success on U.K. carrier, but is recent exercise fuel for big-deck debate?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By all accounts, the summer exercise that saw U.S. Marine Corps Harriers embark on a U.K. Royal Navy carrier was a huge success. But it also may have added fuel to the long-simmering debate within the Department of the Navy over large-deck carriers versus small carriers with short takeoff/ vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft. [<a href="http://matthew-hilburn.com/media/mhilburn/november01.pdf">Entire article</a>]]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:08:51 -0800</pubDate>
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 <title>Experimental Marine Corps project aims to turn the hunted into the hunter</title>
 <link>http://matthew-hilburn.comindex.php?itemid=151</link>
<description><![CDATA[A series of experiments being conducted at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory in Quantico, Va., could have dramatic effects on the way Marines engage in battle. [<a href="http://matthew-hilburn.com/media/mhilburn/october02.pdf">Entire article</a>]]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:07:01 -0800</pubDate>
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