Matt Conger, chief information systems technician, cleans debris during a community service project at the Cyril Ross Nursery during an engineering project for the humanitarian assistance mission Continuing Promise 2008. The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge is deployed as the primary platform for 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.