 Marines and Sailors, with battalion landing team First Battalion, Fourth Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, disembark the USS Denver after completing the multi-week bilateral training exercise Balacatan in the Philippine Islands. The combined force of U.S. and Philippine Marines executed amphibious raids against live aggressors and conducted numerous other training evolutions designed to increase the interoperability of the two forces. We did several live fires with them, a patrolling package, which we taught them what we know about patrolling, and they taught us what they know about patrolling in the jungle, survival skills. The exercise served as one force final deployment as the battalion landing team of the 31st Mew. Marine Sergeant Paul Robbins Jr., Okinawa, Japan.