A little girl peeks inside a notebook during a community relations event in support of Balikatan 2017 at Margen Elementary School in Ormoc, Leyte, May 2, 2017. Community relations events with local communities help build relationships with locals to increase response time during a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief situation. Balikatan is an annual bilateral military exercise focused on a variety of missions, including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, counterterrorism, and other combined military operations.

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