A U.S. Marine with 4th Platoon, Company C, 3d Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine Division, spends his July 4 repairing the transmission of a Amphibious Assault Vehicle on a beach in Ancon, Peru. The transport dock ship USS New Orleans is deployed in support of operation Partnership of the Americas/Southern Exchange, a combined amphibious exercise designed to enhance cooperative partnerships with maritime forces from Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia.