Information systems technician Petty Officer 3rd Class Merced Mercado from the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge translates a Dominican patient's symptoms to medical personnel at the Bayaguana Sports Complex in support of humanitarian/civic assistance mission Continuing Promise 2008. Kearsarge is the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of the humanitarian assistance mission Continuing Promise 2008, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, France, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.