Rear Adm. Joseph Kernan, commander of the U.S. 4th Fleet, speaks with U.S. Air Force personnel assigned to a civil engineering team providing engineering assistance to the people of Nicaragua as part of Continuing Promise 2008. The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge is deployed supporting the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008, an equal-partnership mission between the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.