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background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uphaa.com/blog/index.php/10-ships-with-unusual-large-cargo/"><P><FONT size="3">Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Sea based X band radar platform arrives in Pearl Harbor aboard Heavy lift vessel Blue Marlin in January, 2006.</FONT></p> <P> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uphaa.com/blog/index.php/10-ships-with-unusual-large-cargo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.uphaa.com/img/8747BD38-217B-45C9-9ED9-9943B2F2B4A3" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; 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