Randall Eskridge was a Flight Equipment Technician in the Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152 based out of Okinawa. On October 7, 1998, while driving drunk, he was involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident. His car struck Yuki Uema, an 18-year-old Japanese high school student, who was riding her motorcycle home. After hitting her, Eskridge did not stop to help her. Uema was in a coma for a week and died from complications of her injuries. The incident followed upon the infamous 1995 Okinawan rape incident, where on September 4, 1995, three U.S. servicemen rented a van and kidnapped and raped a 12-year-old 6th-grade Japanese girl. The Eskridge car crash caused an uproar in Okinawa due to the raw emotion in the Okinawan population after the rape incident, the fact the Marines refuse