Keywords: US, Philippine service members begin laying foundation for classrooms 150413-N-HA376-739.jpg en Armed Forces of the Philippines Army engineers from the 552nd Engineer Construction Battalion U S Navy Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 and U S Marine engineers from the 9th Engineer Support Battalion spread cement for a concrete pad at Don Joaquin Artuz Memorial Elementary School in Tapaz Philippines during Balikatan 2015 April 14 The engineers part of the Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force on the island of Panay are 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 2015-04-14 Chief Petty Officer Lowell Whitman https //www dvidshub net/image/1874089 150413-N-HA376-739 2015-04-15 07 43 TAPAZ PH PD-USGov-Military-Navy Balikatan 2015 United States Navy Seabees Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ |