Petty Officer 1st Class Pasha Hughes, embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, helps repair a neighborhood school during a Continuing Promise 2008 humanitarian assistance project. Kearsarge is the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of the Continuing Promise 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.