Landing Force Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) is a series of annual military exercises conducted by the U.S. Pacific Fleet with member nations of ASEAN. Here, U.S. Marine Corps personnel watch Commander Ivan Lee from the elite airborne brigade of the Malaysian armed forces during jungle survival training, while the U.S. Navy’s Boatswain’s Mate First Class Earnest Pippin takes a blood pressure reading from a patient in Seberang.
U.S. Navy; National Archives and Records Administration
Top: U.S. Marine Corps personnel from CARAT with Commander Ivan Lee of Malaysian Armed Forces, 2002
Sungai Lembing, Malaysia
Bottom: U.S. Navy Boatswain’s Mate First Class Earnest Pippin with a patient, 2006
Seberang, Malaysia
Photograph by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class John L. Beeman