 Marines and sailors with battalion landing team 1st Battalion 4th Marines and Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, participate in two community projects following the training conducted during Exercise Cobra Gold 2012. The projects included tilling soil and clearing brush away from both the Padilla Child Protection and Development Center and the Home for the Aged, all the while acting on a strictly voluntary basis. We came here for the NEO training or do some Cobra Gold training for 2012 and as myself and the other Marines, we're all happy to get back to these kids. Some of these kids don't have parents, some of them are growing up in a rough community. So to see these children happy just to see some Marines here, helping out the country is a great feeling. After the work, the Marines and Sailors interacted with the elderly citizens, Corporal Jonathan Wright, Padilla, Tyler.