Lt. Johnny Cosby, an optometrist embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, gives a local man an eye exam during the humanitarian/civic assistance mission Continuing Promise 2008. Kearsarge is the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.