Petty Officer 2nd Class Josh Smith, an equipment operator assigned to Construction Battalion Mobile Unit Det. 202, shakes hands with a Nicaraguan child at Municipal Park during an engineering project to construct a new playground during the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008. The amphibious assault ship USS 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.