OKINAWA, Japan (Feb. 5, 2024) U.S. Navy Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4 and U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 18th Civil Engineer Squadron (CES) break down rubble to allow for easier removal in an airfield damage repair exercise during Keen Edge '24. Keen Edge is an annual bilateral exercise conducted by the United States Forces Japan and the Japanese Self Defense Force. NMCB 4 is forward deployed throughout the Indo-Pacific region to support and maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific. As the stand-in, crisis response, naval engineering force, NMCB 4 maintains a ready posture to deliver in-theater expeditionary logistics via expeditionary shore infrastructure, forward damage repair, and mobile construction. (US Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Dakota Rayburn)