Medical personnel embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge unload supplies from helicopters, preparing to assist health clinic personnel with patients as part of the partnership between Continuing Promise 08 and Trinidad-Tobago. Kearsarge is the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of the humanitarian/civic assistance mission CP 08, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.