Hull technician Petty Officer 3rd Class Aaron Smith teaches Dominican Republic Sailors to weld during a subject matter expert exchange aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge. Kearsarge is the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of the humanitarian assistance mission Continuing Promise 2008, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, France, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.