U.S. Public Health Service Capt. Jose Belardo has a conversation with a military official from the Dominican Republic at a distinguished visitors reception aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge. Kearsarge is the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of the Continuing Promise 2008 humanitarian assistance mission, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, France, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.