U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Miguel Gonzalez (3rd from right) , a motor transportation operator with Combat Assault Battalion, Ground Combat Element, 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade (Forward), III Marine Expeditionary Force, closes his eyes as a scorpion crawls on his cover during a jungle-survival training for Exercise Cobra Gold 2011 in Ban Chan Khrem, Chanthaburi province, Thailand, on Feb. 20, 2011. Cobra Gold is a regularly scheduled joint/combined exercise designed to ensure regional peace and strengthen the ability of the Royal Thai Armed Forces to defend Thailand or respond to regional contingencies.