Lance Cpl. Taraka T. Ballentine, center, lifts a junction

Lance Cpl. Taraka T. Ballentine, center, lifts a junction panel, weighing 478 pounds, in order to assemble a five-bay, two-story, medium girder bridge during Blue Chromite 16 at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 30, 2015. The heaviest piece of equipment lifted throughout the process weighed 600 pounds. According to Cpl. Cole G. White, the 9th ESB bridge master, this bridge will be the first five-bay bridge to ever be lifted on Okinawa, and the second in Marine Corps history. Blue Chromite is a large-scale amphibious exercise that draws primarily from III Marine Expeditionary Force’s training resources on Okinawa. The location of the training allows participating units to maintain a forward-deployed posture and eliminates the cost of traveling to train. Ballentine, from Escondido, California, is with 9th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III MEF.