U.S. Army Spc. Neil Bautista, assigned to the 97th

U.S. Army Spc. Neil Bautista, assigned to the 97th Civil Affairs Battalion, speaks with health workers from Barangay Taft during preventive disease training at a cooperative health engagement in Tapaz, Philippines, during Balikatan 2015, April 12. The engagement was held as part of a Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force on the island of Panay for the exercise. 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, contingency, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Lowell Whitman/Released)