Barrion, a combat engineer based out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., spearheaded an eight-week project between the Philippine Army’s 513th Engineering Construction Battalion and the United States Marine Corps’ 9th Engineer Support Battalion. The ongoing mission is to construct a two-classroom building for the second graders of Alannay Elementary School as part of Exercise Balikatan.
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