A boy at AboAbo Elementary School plays volleyball with U.S. Navy Sailors with the Health Support Service Platoon, Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, at Palawan, Philippines, Oct. 24, 2011. Many of the kids playing were preparing for the upcoming regional volleyball meet. The school was the site of a community relations project between U.S. and Philippine Marines and Sailors where they helped paint the main school building and handed out school and sports equipment. The project was in PHIBLEX 2012 and part of an effort to improve the readiness and interoperability between the U.S. and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and its military forces, who have worked together for more than 59 years.