Electrician's Technician 1st Class Anthony Nekervis exchanges best practices during a weapons handling demonstration held in support of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training Bangladesh 2013. U.S. Navy units participating in CARAT Bangladesh include the Destroyer Squadron 7 staff, members from Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training Command, members from Afloat Training Group, Western Pacific and the diving and salvage vessel USNS Safeguard with embarked Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1. CARAT is a series of bilateral military exercises between the U.S. Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timor Leste.