THAILAND (March 28, 2025) — Members of a U.S. military Joint Engineer Response team assess damage and structural integrity after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake affected Thailand and its neighbor countries on March 28, 2025. U.S. military engineers continue to work alongside Thai military counterparts and first responders in conducting complex search and rescue operations and emergency excavation to locate survivors. The Joint Engineer Response Team consists of personnel from the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who have expertise in structural security, providing risk mitigation for personnel extraction teams to search for survivors. These assets are invaluable to humanitarian aid and disaster response operations. Servicemembers arrived in Thailand between the 28th and 30th of March to deliver critical aid and support to our Thailand partners in the Indo-Pacific.