Michael Hagglund, hospital corpsman assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge medical department, reads an English to Spanish health care dialect book before Nicaraguan civilians arrive for eye exams at Jose Comenius High School. Kearsarge is deployed as the primary platform 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.