Photo: PH2 Patrick J. Sullivan
Russian and U.S. personnel joined forces to "rescue" civilian "victims" from a simulated earthquake disaster near Vladivostok during the exercise COOPERATION FROM THE SEA 98.

Pacific air chiefs at the airport welcoming ceremony near Washington. L to R: Gen. Michael E. Ryan (U.S.), Air Vice Marshal Jamal Uddin Ahmed (Bangladesh), Air Marshal Errol McCormack (Australia), Lt. Gen. David N. Kinsman (Canada), Gen. Hiraoka Yuji (Japan), and Maj. Gen. Byambajav (Mongolia).

Royal Thai and U.S. Army soldiers train together on a mortar during exercise COBRA GOLD 98 in Thailand.

The 16th in the biennial series of RIM OF THE PACIFIC (RIMPAC) naval exercises were held in the Hawaiian Islands from 6 July to 6 August 1998. Here sailors aboard the U.S. carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) spell out "RIMPAC 98."