Pediatrician Rhonda Jefferies, an Operation Smile volunteer embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, conducts a physical exam on a 9-month-old infant during Continuing Promise 2008. Operation Smile is a worldwide children's medical charity that provides free surgery to children born with facial deformities in developing countries. Kearsarge is supporting the Caribbean phase of CP 2008, an equal partnership mission between the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.