Chief Petty Officer Rob Pardue, a yeoman from Nederland, Texas, assigned to Amphibious Squadron 11, fights for a rebound during a game of basketball between U.S. and armed forces of the Philippines sailors during a community service project at Kalalake Elementary School as part of Exercise Balikatan 2009. Sailors from PHIBRON-11 and the Philippine Navy painted school buildings and donated toys and cookware to the school, which focuses on special-needs children. Balikatan is an annual, combined, joint-bilateral exercise involving U.S. military and armed forces of the Philippines personnel as well as subject-matter experts from Philippine Civil Defense Agencies.