Marines with Task Force Koa Moana share stories and greetings with a Papua New Guinea soldier after the opening ceremony of Exercise Koa Moana, June 18, 2016, at Taurama Barracks, Papua New Guinea. The multi-national exercise is designed to increase interoperability and to promote peace in the Pacific through mil-to-mil exchange and by sharing infantry, engineering, law enforcement and medical skills. The Marines are with Task Force Koa Moana, originally assigned to I and III Marine Expeditionary Force. ( Marine Corps photo by Cpl. William Hester/ Released)

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