Marine Leaders of The Americas Conference (MLAC) 2025

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Carlos Sanchez (left), assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 28, Detail Bravo, applies concrete sealant to a sewage pipe while Lance Cpl. Stephen McDonaldhale, assigned to 2nd Marine Logistics Group, holds it steady at Escuela Eloy Alfaro School in Manta, Ecuador, Jan. 5, 2011. Sailors, Marines and Ecuadorian naval infantrymen are part of exercise Southern Partnership Station 2011, an annual deployment of U.S. ships to the U.S. Southern Command's area of responsibility in the Caribbean and Latin America.