U.S. Navy Seabee Ensign Paul Naquin (left), site officer in charge, briefs U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Brian Clemens, deputy commanding officer, Combined Joint Military Operations Task Force, Navy Mobile Construction Batallion 40, at the construction site of a multipurpose building at the Wat Chalheamlap School in Chon Buri, Thailand, Jan. 30, 2012. Naquin briefs that the work of Royal Thai service members, Malaysian forces and U.S. Navy Seabees at the site in support of Cobra Gold 2012 will take approximately one month to complete. Humanitarian and civic assistance projects are being conducted preceding the official kickoff of CG 12, scheduled for Feb. 7. HCAs include engineering, medical and dental projects designed to build relationships and improve interoperability between partner nations.