U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. William Carpenter, a motor vehicle operator with Combat Logistics Battalion 5, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, greets French Navy personnel at the Evacuation Collection Center in Koumac, New Caledonia during Exercise Croix du Sud, May 4, 2023. Croix du Sud is the New Caledonian Armed Forces’ Combined Joint Task Force certification event with training objectives focused on a Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response, Non-combatant Evacuation Operations, and Stability and Support Operations scenario in Oceania with desired effects focused on enhancing military-military, civil-military, and joint/multinational coordination in the region during crisis response. U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 5, 1st Marine Logistics Group supported the ECC with a non-combatant evacuation operations team during the exercise, while also enhancing the Marine Corps’ ability to provide logistical support to the joint force and U.S. Allies and partners in future austere operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Dana Beesley)