Children from the local community play basketball in between games where Marines assigned to the 9th Engineer Support Battalion play against Philippine Army soldiers assigned to the 522nd Engineering Construction Battalion during a friendly pick-up game at Calangitan Elementary School in Capas, Tarlac, Philippines, May 16, 2018. Balikatan 2018, in its 34th iteration, is an annual military training exercise focused on a variety of missions, including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, counterterrorism and other combined military operations held from May 7 to 18.

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