Rear Adm. Joseph Kernan, commander of the U.S. 4th Fleet, speaks about the Continuing Promise 2008 mission goals with Nicaraguan Army Col. Jose Danilo Blanco at a civil engineering team site. The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge is deployed as the primary platform supporting the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise, an equal-partnership mission between the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.