Lt. Hector Acevedo, a physician embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, works with a Trinidadian nurse to give a patient an intravenous line at a local health facility during the humanitarian/civic assistance mission Continuing Promise 2008. Kearsarge is the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of CP, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.