Marine Corps Cpl. Christian Gibbons grinds a passage for a plumbing pipe using an angle grinder at Victor O’ De Guia Jr. Memorial Elementary School in Balian, Pangil, Laguna, Philippines, March 27, 2019 as part of Exercise Balikatan. Marines with Engineer Company Alpha, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, are working shoulder-to-shoulder with the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Australian Defense Forces to build school houses as part of their engineering civic assistance projects during BK 2019. The exercise, in its 35th iteration, is an annual exercise between
Marine Corps Cpl. Christian Gibbons grinds a passage for a plumbing pipe using an angle grinder at Victor O’ De Guia Jr. Memorial Elementary School in Balian, Pangil, Laguna, Philippines, March 27, 2019 as part of Exercise Balikatan. Marines with Engineer Company Alpha, 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, are working shoulder-to-shoulder with the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Australian Defense Forces to build school houses as part of their engineering civic assistance projects during BK 2019. The exercise, in its 35th iteration, is an annual exercise between the military and the Armed Forces of the Philippines that allows the countries to strengthen relationships, increase interoperability and enhance operational readiness. Gibbons, a combat engineer with Engineer Co. A, 9th ESB, 3rd MLG, is a native of Seattle, Washington.
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