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Children whack U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Paul Brashier with improvised foam bats during a team-building event as part of exercise Balikatan 2015 at Don Joaquin Artuz Memorial Elementary School in Tapaz, Philippines, April 23, 2015. Brashier is a civil affairs Marine assigned to the III Marine Expeditionary Force.

WHACK-A-MARINE

Children whack U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Paul Brashier with improvised foam bats during a team-building event as part of exercise Balikatan 2015 at Don Joaquin Artuz Memorial Elementary School in Tapaz, Philippines, April 23, 2015. Brashier is a civil affairs Marine assigned to the III Marine Expeditionary Force.

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