Project HOPE pediatrician Hilary Warren, embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, examines a child during medical operations at 27 Febrero Naval Base during the humanitarian assistance mission Continuing Promise 2008. 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, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.