Caroline Raiden is the newest member of the 65th Escort Corps's Cosmo Marine platoon. Caroline was born and raised on the American West Coast. Her father was a Japanese diplomat and her mother an American woman; her parents divorced when she was eight and she moved to Japan with her father. After Garmillas began bombing Earth, Caroline moved in an underground city near the capital where she met Shigeru Sakamoto. In order to escape her strict father, she joined the National Space Defense Academy following the end of the Gatlantis War.

(Source: Yamato Wiki)