 Marines and sailors with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team 1-4, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, execute a small boat raid as the first event of Cobra Gold 2012 in the Kingdom of Thailand. The unit operates combat rubber raiding craft alongside Royal Thai Marines, pushing 23 boats and more than 150 Marines ashore. The training exercise is intended to provide a learning experience for all nations involved. According to what we do now, we can know each other and we can learn from each other and also increase interoperability from the training. The raid is the first of many multilateral training events the 31st Mu will conduct alongside Thai forces and five other nations participating in the exercise. Marine Sergeant Paul Robbins Jr. Hanyang, Thailand