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Singapore Army Lt. Hoong Shi Wei, a combat engineer with Singapore Combat Engineers, comments on the construction of a multi-purpose building during Exercise Cobra Gold 18 at the Wat Sombun Naram elementary school, Rayong Province, Thailand, Feb. 7, 2018. Exercise Cobra Gold 18 is an annual exercise conducted in the Kingdom of Thailand held from Feb. 13-23 with seven full participating nations. (U.S. Marine Corps motion imagery by Sgt. Scott P. Smolinski)

Marines and Seabees with Task Force Koa Moana weld trusses at sea, aboard USNS Sacagawea (T-AKE 2), June 7-31, 2016, to prepare for vertical construction training in Fiji, as part of their deployment in the Asia-Pacific region.

Marines with Bridge Company, 1st Platoon, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group constructed a link reinforced 22-bay medium girder bridge with sailors with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Oct. 20-23, 2015. Service members from both units demonstrated ability to work together in this unique training scenario to gain a better sense of teamwork while building and tearing down the expansive structure.

Key leaders of the Combined Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force element of Exercise Cobra Gold 2015 visited Samart Loypha, the governor of Chanthaburi Province, Thailand, at the Province's capitol building Jan. 29 to discuss an Engineer Civic Action Project at Ban Chan Krehm elementary school, located Chanthaburi's Kaeng Hang Maeo District. Cobra Gold includes a specific focus on humanitarian civic assistant to support the needs and humanitarian interests of Thai civilian populations around the region. The ENCAP, which utilizes the combined force of U.S. Navy, Indian Army and Royal Thai Marine and Navy military engineers, will result in a new library facility for scholars ages 4-12.

The district of Musa Qal'eh, currently under the command of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, is having a bridge built to gap a wadi, or river bed, that divides Musa Qal'eh's district center during the rainy season. The construction of the bridge is undertaken by Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4.