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 and Guyana.(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Petty Officer 3rd Class Maddelin Angebrand/Released)

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Nov. 16, 2008) Parachute Rigger 3rd Class Carley Stevenson, embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), shows a local boy pictures that were taken of him on her camera while helping to renovate East Ruimveldt Community Center during the humanitarian/civic assistance mission Continuing Promise (CP) 2008. Kearsarge is supporting the Caribbean phase of CP 2008, an equal-partnership mission between the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Gina Wollman/Released)

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Nov. 16, 2008) Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Sara Larson, assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), helps paint the East Ruimveldt Community Center during the humanitarian/civic assistance mission Continuing Promise (CP) 2008. Kearsarge is supporting the Caribbean phase of CP 2008, an equal-partnership mission between the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Emmitt J. Hawks/Released)