Military dentists and dental technicians embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge provide dental exams to local patients during medical operations at the Port Kaituma Skills Training Centre during a Continuing Promise 2008. Kearsarge is supporting the Caribbean Phase of the humanitarian and civic assistance mission Continuing Promise, an equal partnership mission between the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.