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	<description>Rob Simmons, PMS EOD is currently deployed in Baghdad, Iraq. Check in on his first hand experience with unmanned systems in theatre.</description>
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		<title>Last Entry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello from Baghdad. This will be my last blog entry. While I never had a personal history with reading or writing blog entries, I found this experience to be very positive. Writing my thoughts and experiences down, enabled me to not only give them additional thought but also made me analyze them in more depth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=auvsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3014039&amp;post=20&amp;subd=auvsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 21:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m 22 days from my departure from my deployment. I thought I needed to give you a small window for what the soldiers go through here and feel here. This is not intended to be comprehensive just a “tip of the iceberg” perspective. I wanted to submit to the bloggers excerpts from a TF Troy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=auvsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3014039&amp;post=19&amp;subd=auvsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello from Baghdad. My tour is rapidly coming to a close. It is unbelievable how quickly it is passing. Currently, my deployment is 70% complete. This has been an incredible experience. For those who read this blog entry for its non-DoD acquisition content, I’m sorry. I’ve promised Dr. Curtin that I would give him my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=auvsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3014039&amp;post=18&amp;subd=auvsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EOD Memorial</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 18:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope all is well. I’m dropping a quick line to keep you posted on activities here in Baghdad. The weather over the past week has been very moderate relative to temperatures; basically it’s been in the high 80’s to low 90’s. The dust and sand have been kicking up quite a bit and visibility was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=auvsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3014039&amp;post=17&amp;subd=auvsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outside the Wire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since I have written. Sorry about that. The time has flown by and the longer I stay here the more the daily tempo of activity seems to increase. My routine duties, if you call anything around here routine, took a backseat about a week and a half ago. TF Troy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=auvsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3014039&amp;post=15&amp;subd=auvsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VT Tribute</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Still keeping cool&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another week has passed and life in Baghdad continues. The dirt keeps blowing, the temperatures have been very comfortable, and the soldiers keep going outside the wire keeping ground-level lanes of communication clear for military and commercial traffic alike. EOD teams continue to respond to tasking (i.e. in the hundreds per week) from route clearance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=auvsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3014039&amp;post=14&amp;subd=auvsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope all is well. The time is really flying by and my days are packed with activity. Trying to get prototypical equipment into theater, continuation of testing assets and liaison with CONUS elements really takes up the majority of the daytime and nighttime hours. I was fortunate this past Sunday and was able to run [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=auvsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3014039&amp;post=13&amp;subd=auvsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Easter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess it is about time to fill you in on what is happening in Baghdad. As you probably read in this morning’s news or learned while watching your favorite, Sunday morning news show, there was an extended rocket/mortar attack in “IZ” or Green Zone as the media refers to it. About 0530 this morning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=auvsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3014039&amp;post=12&amp;subd=auvsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All is well. Science &#38; Technology progress is being made from the CJTF Troy, J8 shop. The past seven days have gone by very fast. They have involved a lot of testing in support of the Counter-IED fight. Every night I sit in on the Commander’s Update Brief  (CUB) to COL Lutz, the Commander of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=auvsi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3014039&amp;post=11&amp;subd=auvsi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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