Marine Lance Cpl. Hannah J. Bates talks with a local boy during a civil military assistance from the sea humanitarian assistance and disaster relief scenario in support of Balikatan 2017 in Batan, Batanes, May 11, 2017. Bates is a military police officer with 3rd Law Enforcement Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group. 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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