Forging bonds: U.S. Marines, airmen train alongside Guatemalan firefighters [Image 7 of 9]

RETALHULEU, GUATEMALA

08.06.2017

Photo by Cpl. Melissa Martens 

U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South

U.S. Marine Maj. Ryan E. Thompson, right, executive officer of the Aviation Combat Element, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Southern Command, trades patches with a firefighter from the Retalhuleu Fire Department during a training exercise at Base Comando Aéro Del Sur in Retalhuleu, Guatemala, Aug. 6, 2017. Marines with SPMAGTF-SC and U.S. Airmen with the 612th Air Base Squadron, Joint Task Force - Bravo, trained in how to properly extinguish a fire and evacuate casualties with the Retalhuleu firefighters. The Marines and sailors of SPMAGTF-SC are deployed to Central America to conduct security cooperation training and engineering projects with their counterparts in several Central American and Caribbean nations. (Courtesy photo by Capt. Ismael Lopez)

• Date Taken: 08.06.2017
• Date Posted: 08.30.2017 15:38
• Photo ID: 3692704
• VIRIN: 170806-M-CK972-012
• Resolution: 624x470
• Size: 35.79 KB
• Location: RETALHULEU, GT