U.S. Marines and Navy corpsmen with 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, board a C-130 cargo plane on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Sept. 20, 2011, in order to participate in Exercise AMERCAL 2011 with French armed forces, New Caledonia. AMERCAL is a platoon-level combat arms combined exchange between the French armed forces in 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.