U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Steven Cole does welding work at the Escuela Calderas engineering site in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Aug. 4, 2011, during Continuing Promise 2011. Continuing Promise is a regularly scheduled mission to countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean, where the U.S. Navy and its partnering nations work with host nations and a variety of governmental and nongovernmental agencies to train in civil-military operations.