Marine Leaders of The Americas Conference (MLAC) 2025

Guatemalan Brigada de Infanteria de Marina (BIM) engineers paint the exterior walls in order to help remodel the Biblioteca Municipal Corporacion 74-78. The BIM engineers along with their U.S. counterparts help renovate the local library as part of a humanitarian engineering project in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, Aug. 14, 2014. The Marines and Sailors are helping to remodel buildings in support of Southern Partnership Station 2014, a combined joint exercise focused on subject matter expert exchanges with partner nations and security forces as well as military to military engagements and community relations projects in Central America. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Chloe Nelson, 2D MAR DIV Combat Camera/ Released)