U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Donald Retreage advances on the beach at Barking Sands, Kauai, during an amphibious assault in support of Exercise RIMPAC '98 on July 31, 1998. RIMPAC '98 is a multinational exercise held on and in waters surrounding the Hawaiian islands, involving more than 25,000 people, 50 ships and 200 aircraft from Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the U.S. Retreage is from New Orleans, La.