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Participants pose for a group photo following the opening ceremony for the 2018 Nepal Pacific Resilience Disaster Response Exercise and Exchange, 25 Sep. 2018 in Kathmandu. The exercise is co-hosted by the Nepali Army and the United States Army Pacific with more than 300 disaster response professionals from 14 countries attending. During the four-day exercise, participants from national militaries, government organizations, the United Nations and non-government entities are split into teams according to expertise to work through a common earthquake scenario while sharing knowledge, testing common operating procedures and making recommendations to improve future disaster planning and response procedures.