 Amphibious Landing Exercise 2012 kicked off with an opening ceremony at Fort Bonifacio. During the exercise, more than 2,000 members of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade and their Filipino counterparts will participate in a variety of training, including live fire maneuvers and amphibious operations. We understand that relationships start here and they start at the small unit level and those same individuals that start those relationships now, 20 years now, they will have matured those relationships and they will be friends. So this exercise will be good for us, it will be good for the armed forces of the Philippines. The Marines of the Brigade will also conduct several engineering, medical and dental civil action projects. Lance Corporal Daniel Valley, Fort Bonifacio, Republic of the Philippines.