U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Hannah J. Bates talks with a

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Hannah J. Bates talks with a local boy during a civil military assistance from the sea humanitarian assistance and disaster relief scenario in support of Balikatan 2017 in Batan, Batanes, May 11, 2017. Bates is a military police officer with 3rd Law Enforcement Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group. Balikatan is an annual U.S.-Philippine bilateral military exercise focused on a variety of missions, including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, counterterrorism, and other combined military operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Osvaldo L. Ortega III)