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USS Kearsarge Supports Continuing Promise 2008

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dustin Miller, assigned to the USS Kearsarge, signals two landing crafts mechanized to a beach landing zone in Santo Domingo, Oct. 5, 2008. USS Kearsarge is supporting Continuing Promise 2008, an equal-partnership humanitarian/civic assistance mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, France, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Tobago and Guyana.

U.S. Navy Lt. Johnny Cosby, assigned to the USS Kearsarge, conducts an eye exam at a medical clinic set up as part of Continuing Promise 2008, Las Calderas, Dominican Republic, Oct. 5, 2008.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Alex Olson administers de-worming medication to a young patient during medical operations at Las Calderas Naval Base as part of Continuing Promise 2008, Oct. 10, 2008. Olson is temporarily assigned to the USS Kearsarge.

Lt. Pam Liptrot, a medical augmentee embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, tends to one of a set of twins from the Dominican Republic following an eye surgery aboard the ship in the Caribbean Sea, Oct. 10, 2008.

Jasmine Grey, a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman embarked aboard the USS Kearsarge, conducts an eye exam during Continuing Promise 2008 in Bayaguana, Dominican Republic, Oct. 12, 2008.

U.S. Public Health Service Cmdr. Lisa Hogan examines a child during medical operations at Las Calderas Naval Base supporting Continuing Promise 2008, in Las Calderas, Dominican Republic, Oct. 10, 2008. Hogan is temporarily assigned to the USS Kearsarge.

Sgt. Stefan Schell, a Dutch service member embarked aboard the USS Kearsarge, examines an X-ray at the 27 Febrero Medical Facility, Santo Domingo, Dominican, Republic, Oct. 13, 2008.

Lt. Cmdr. Sugat Patel, a doctor embarked aboard the USS Kearsarge, provides medical care to a Dominican child at the Bayaguana Sports Complex in Bayaguana, Dominican Republic, Oct. 15, 2008, as part of Continuing Promise 2008.

Julia Taylor, a Project Hope volunteer embarked aboard the USS Kearsarge,holds a Dominican infant for a patron of the Project Hope Health Fair, Bayaguana, Dominican Republic, Oct. 9, 2008. USS Kearsarge is supporting Continuing Promise 2008.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dustin Miller, assigned to the USS Kearsarge, signals two landing crafts mechanized to a beach landing zone in Santo Domingo, Oct. 5, 2008. USS Kearsarge is supporting Continuing Promise 2008, an equal-partnership humanitarian/civic assistance mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, France, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Tobago and Guyana.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class William S. Parker