Keywords: Combined US-Philippine Force Completes Classrooms on Panay 150427-N-HA376-218.jpg en Schoolchildren perform a dance for U S forces Armed Forces of the Philippines and local civic leaders during a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new building at Don Joaquin Artuz Memorial Elementary School built by AFP and U S engineers as part of the Combined-Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force on the island of Panay in Tapaz Philippines during Balikatan 2015 April 27 The engineers worked together for 40 days to complete the Philippine Department of Education modified one-story two-classroom building Balikatan which means shoulder to shoulder in Filipino is an annual bilateral training exercise aimed at improving the ability of Philippine and U S military forces to work together during planning humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations U S Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Lowell Whitman/ Released 2015-04-26 Chief Petty Officer Lowell Whitman https //www dvidshub net/image/1903972 150427-N-HA376-218 2015-04-29 03 20 TAPAZ PH PD-USGov-Military-Navy Balikatan 2015 Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ |