Maj. Niel Estrella, a civil military operations officer with the Philippine Marines Corps, and Capt. Richard McKenzie, an assistant operations officer with Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines (BLT 2/7), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), discuss information about a landing craft unit (LCU), in the well deck aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), March 1. The MEU recently completed Exercise Cobra Gold 2010 (CG ’10) and is currently scheduled to go underway to the Republic of the Philippines in support of Exercise Balikatan 2010 (BK ’10). (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Dengrier M. Baez) - Maj. Niel Estrella, a civil military operations officer with the Philippine Marines Corps, and Capt. Richard McKenzie, an assistant operations officer with Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines (BLT 2/7), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), discuss information about a landing craft unit (LCU), in the well deck aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), March 1. The MEU recently completed Exercise Cobra Gold 2010 (CG ’10) and is currently scheduled to go underway to the Republic of the Philippines in support of Exercise Balikatan 2010 (BK ’10). (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Dengrier M. Baez)