French Airborne Marine Adjiciclant Guillaume Jay, with 8th Infantry Regiment, Company De Clerage Et D'Appius, Castres, buckles into a shallow water egress trainer during Exercise AMERCAL 2011 on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Sept. 27, 2011. Exercise AMERCAL 2011 is a platoon-level combat arms combined exchange between the French armed forces, New Caledonia and U.S. Marines with the purpose of maintaining a high level of interoperability, enhancing military-to-military relations and improving mutual combat capabilities with French allies.