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		<title>NATO Tiger Meet 2011 &#8211; Cambrai &#8211; May 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking place between May 9 and 20 at Cambrai airbase, in northern France, NATO Tiger Meet (NTM11) has been attended by about 60 planes and helicopters belonging to the Austrian, Czech Republic, German, Hellenic, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, Swiss and Slovak air forces. From a simple meeting of flying units sharing a Tiger (or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2011/06/01/ntm/</link>
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		<title>Trapani airbase &#8211; April 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent Apr. 12, 2011, (Day 25 of Odyssey Dawn/Unified Protector) at Trapani-Birgi, one of the most active forward operating bases for the Libyan crisis. The airbase is the operative headquarters of the Italian Air Force contingent, to be soon become a Task Group “Air” and put under the direct command of Col. Mauro Gabetta, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2011/06/01/trapani-airbase-april-2011/</link>
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		<title>494th FS deployment to Decimomannu airbase &#8211; February 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Jan. 20, 2011, 14 F-15Es belonging to the 48FW of the USAFE based at RAF Lakenheath deployed to Decimomannu airbase. During the deployment, that ended on Feb. 4 (even if 6 aircraft returned to the UK on Feb. 2), the Strike Eagles usually performed two daily waves, almost always launching up to 10 aircraft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2011/02/15/494fs-deployment/</link>
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		<title>Winter Hide 2011 &#8211; RDAF deployment to Grosseto airbase &#8211; February 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Jan. 17, 2011, 11 F-16s belonging to the Royal Danish Air Force deployed to Grosseto airbase, Italy, to undertake training operations with the local based Eurofighter Typhoon of the 4° Stormo of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF). Dubbed “Winter Hide 2011″ the deployment was planned to enable the Danish pilots to train [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2011/02/15/winter-hide-2011/</link>
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		<title>Wittmund &#8211; home of the last GAF Phantoms &#8211; October 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Located in the northern part of Germany, Wittmundhafen (or Wittmund) is the homebase of the Jagdgeschwader 71 (JG71) equipped with the McDonnell Douglas F-4F Phantom. The unit, that made its last detachment in Decimomannu last Sept. (read: Ciao German Phantoms!) and is named &#8220;Richthofen&#8221; after the WWI German ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, better known [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2010/12/28/wittmund/</link>
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		<title>Exercise Vega 2010 – Decimomannu – part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 available here.]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2010/12/27/exercise-vega-2010-decimomannu-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Exercise Vega 2010 &#8211; Decimomannu &#8211; part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For all the articles dealing with the Exercise Vega 2010 in Decimomannu, I suggest you visiting the main site starting at the following address http://cencio4.wordpress.com/tag/vega-2010/ (scroll down to read all the related posts). Part 2 available here.]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2010/12/27/exercise-vega-2010-decimomannu-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Armed Forces Day 2010 (arrivals, exhibition and departures)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the full collection of pictures taken by Giovanni Maduli and me of the arrivals, exhibition and departures of helicopters for the celebrations of the Italian Armed Forces Day.]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2010/11/14/armed-forces-day-2010-arrivals-exhibition-and-departures/</link>
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		<title>Rivolto airshow, 11-12/09/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below are the images of the airshow (and rehearsals) that was held in Rivolto for the 50th Anniversary of the Frecce Tricolori display team. For a description of the two day event please visit the main site at the following address: http://cencio4.wordpress.com/tag/50th-anniversary-frecce-tricolori/.]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2010/10/15/rivolto-airshow-11-120910/</link>
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		<title>German Phantoms and Italian Typhoons in Decimomannu &#8211; 31.08.10 &#8211; 02.09.10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, in a previous post published on my blog I reported about the last GAF F-4s detachment in Decimomannu airbase, Italy. Between Aug. 31 and Sept. 2, the photoreporter Giovanni Maduli went again in Sardinia, to take some pictures of both the JG71 Phantoms and ItAF Eurofighter Typhoon deployed over there to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2010/09/07/german-phantoms-and-italian-typhoons-in-decimo/</link>
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		<title>Festa Esercito 06.05.10 &#8211; Tor di Quinto &#8211; rehearsals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 6, 2010, the Esercito Italiano (EI, Italian Army) celebrated its 149th Anniversary at Rome with a ceremony at Tor di Quinto (TdQ) military hippodrome. For the ceremony, that was attended by many civil and military authorities, AB.412, AB.205, NH-90, A-129, A-109 and CH-47 helicopters deployed to Guidonia and Urbe performed a tactical event [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2010/05/10/festa-esercito-060510-tor-di-quinto-rehearsals/</link>
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		<title>USS Nimitz &#8211; North Arabian Sea &#8211; October 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Between Oct. 19 and 20, 2009, I had the possibility to spend some 25 hours on board the USS Nimitz nuclear supercarrier. I went to Manama, Bahrain, and after a long flight in a C-2 of the VRC-30 “Providers” I trapped on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier that was sailing “somewhere” in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2010/04/09/uss-nimitz-north-arabian-sea-october-2009/</link>
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		<title>Decimomannu &#8211; Winter 2010 activity</title>
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		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2010/04/09/decimomannu-winter-2010-activity/</link>
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		<title>87th Anniversary of the ItAF &#8211; Pratica di Mare &#8211; 26.03.10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This is not the time to stand still. This is the time to build, with flexible far-sightedness, the new Air Force’s architecture so that it is integrated and not absorbed in the new joint context that has a strong European and International connotation”: these were some of the words that Gen. Giuseppe Bernardis, Chief of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2010/04/08/87th-anniversary-of-the-itaf-pratica-di-mare-260310/</link>
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		<title>50th Anniversary AWTI &#8211; Decimomannu &#8211; 25.09.09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sept. 25, Decimomannu airbase in Sardinia, Italy, hosted the 50th Anniversary of the AWTI (Air Weapons Training Installation) that was established the NATO partnership of Italy, Germany, Great Britain and Canada. The AWTI exploits an ACMI (Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation) range where air-to-air missions and DACT (Dissimilar Air Combat Training) are remotely monitored and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lowpassage.com/2009/10/08/50th-anniversary-awti/</link>
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