Keywords: Service members build elementary school during Balikatan 150418-N-HA376-996.jpg en Armed Forces of the Philippines Army engineers assigned to the 552nd Engineer Construction Battalion U S Marine engineers assigned to the 9th Engineer Support Battalion and U S Navy Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 work into the night welding and placing roof trusses and mortar at Don Joaquin Artuz Memorial Elementary School in Tapaz Philippines during Balikatan 2015 April 18 The engineers are part of the Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force on the island of Panay that is 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 humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations U S Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Lowell Whitman/ Released 2015-04-18 Chief Petty Officer Lowell Whitman https //www dvidshub net/image/1886465 150418-N-HA376-996 2015-04-21 04 04 TAPAZ PH PD-USGov-Military-Navy Balikatan 2015 United States Navy Seabees Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ |