Seaman Michael Hagslund, assigned to the medical department of the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, examines a Nicaraguan citizen for cataracts during a Continuing Promise 2008 medical civil action project. Kearsarge is deployed as the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise, an equal-partnership mission between the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.