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Our Best: HOPE in Guyana
MABARUMA, Guyana (Nov. 13, 2008) Project HOPE nurse practitioner Rachel Phillips, embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), listens to a patient during a medical examination at the Mabaruma medical site during the humanitarian and civic assistance mission Continuing Promise 2008. Kearsarge is the primary platform supporting the Caribbean Phase of Continuing Promise, an equal partnership mission between the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago … Read entire article »
Disaster Relief in Haiti
The US Southern Command has a website dedicated to the ongoing relief efforts in Haiti, where a number of hurricanes including Ike have left havoc in their wake. LINK The USS Kearsarge was diverted from its mission as part of Operation Continuing Promise 08 and has been doing extraordinary work in Haiti. As discussed here in the past, this class of vessel is uniquely suited to humanitarian aid missions. The amphibious ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) is in Haiti supporting disaster relief operations following a string of storms that have killed hundreds of Haitians and imperiled thousands of others. U.S. Southern Command directed U.S. Fourth Fleet to divert the ship, which was in Colombia as part of a humanitarian assistance deployment. Currently, helicopters and landing craft from Kearsarge are delivering aid … Read entire article »
Our Best: Just a Kid Babe Edition
HUACHO, Peru (June 13, 2008) Aviation Maintenance Administrationman 2nd Class Melody Colangeli, assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) holds a baby goat while visiting a family goat ranch with a team of Army veterinarians in the Huacho region of Peru during a Continuing Promise (CP) 2008 veterinary civil affairs project. Boxer is deployed supporting the Pacific phase of CP, an equal-partnership mission between the United States, Guatemala, El Salvador and Peru. … Read entire article »
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