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U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Simon Raygoza poses for a photo on Colonel Ernesto Ravina Air Base during Exercise Balikatan, in Tarlac, Philippines, May 11, 2018. Exercise Balikatan, in its 34th iteration, is an annual U.S.-Philippine military training exercise focused on a variety of missions, including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, counterterrorism and other combined military operations held from May 7 to May 18. Raygoza, a native of Chicago, Illinois, is a data systems administrator assigned to Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Marine Division.