Boatswain's mate Petty Officer 3rd Class Adam Parrot pipes over the 1MC in preparation for an announcement from the bridge aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge. Kearsarge is the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.