Sergeant Cordero Gonzalez, an infantryman with Black Sea Rotational Force 14 from 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, helps plant flowers at a school in Ciocanesti, Romania, May 10, 2014. Marines and sailors with BSRF-14 currently participating in Exercise Platinum Lynx took a day to assist the village and help the community by giving a hand where the local Romanians needed. Exercise Platinum Lynx 14-5 is a bilateral exercise between the United States Marines and sailors, and Romanian Land Forces, designed to build familiarity and interoperability between the United States and their Romanian allies through squad and platoon level infantry training. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Scott W. Whiting, BSRF PAO/ Released)