A medical augmentee embarked aboard the amphibiouys assault ship USS Kearsarge helps a young child onto the weight scale at the Juan Comenius High School medical clinic during a Continuing Promise 2008 humanitarian assistance project. Kearsarge is the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.