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Caption:
Gdynia Harbor, Poland (Jun. 05, 2003) -- Polish Sailors watch as the
guided missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) pulls along side the guided
missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) prior to the start of Baltops
2003. The United States and 11 other nations are participating in this
year's exercise. BALTOPS 2003 is intended to improve interoperability
between allies and Partnership for Peace countries by conducting a
peace support operation at sea including exercises in gunnery,
replenishment-at-sea, undersea warfare, radar tracking, mine
countermeasures, seamanship, search and rescue, maritime interdiction
operations, and scenarios dealing with potentially real world crises.
Polish Navy photo by Marian Kluczynski. (RELEASED)
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