Guatemalan Brigada de Infanteria de Marina (BIM) engineer

Guatemalan Brigada de Infanteria de Marina (BIM) engineer Soldado de Segunda Especialista Alexander Jeronimo-Lopez, Zapador de Engineers, hands a stuffed elephant to a local girl as part of the Loving Hugs engagement. The BIM engineers along with their U.S. counterparts are helping to renovate the local library as part of a humanitarian engineering project in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, July 30, 2014. The Marines and Sailors are assisting in the remodeling of buildings in support of Southern Partnership Station 2014, a combined joint exercise focused on subject matter expert exchanges with partner nations and security forces as well as military to military engagements and community relations projects in Central America. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Chloe Nelson, 2D MAR DIV Combat Camera/ Released)