Keywords: AFP, U.S. building classrooms shoulder to shoulder 150409-N-HA376-582.jpg en Armed Forces of the Philippines engineers from the 552nd Engineer Construction Battalion and U S Navy Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 discuss plans for construction at Don Joaquin Artuz Memorial Elementary School in Tapaz Philippines during Balikatan 2015 April 10 The engineers along with U S Marines from the 9th Engineer Support Battalion are part of the Combined-Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force on the island of Panay and constructing two classrooms at the school Balikatan which means shoulder to shoulder in Filipino is an annual bilateral training exercise aimed at improving the ability of Philippine and U S military forces to work together during planning contingency humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations U S Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Lowell Whitman/Released 2015-04-10 Chief Petty Officer Lowell Whitman https //www dvidshub net/image/1871987 150409-N-HA376-582 2015-04-14 01 32 TAPAZ PH PD-USGov-Military-Navy Balikatan 2015 United States Navy Seabees Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ |