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Lt. Cmdr. Sugat Patel, a doctor embarked aboard the USS Kearsarge, provides medical care to a Dominican child at the Bayaguana Sports Complex in Bayaguana, Dominican Republic, Oct. 15, 2008, as part of Continuing Promise 2008.

Lt. Cmdr. Sugat Patel, a doctor embarked aboard the USS Kearsarge, provides medical care to a Dominican child at the Bayaguana Sports Complex in Bayaguana, Dominican Republic, Oct. 15, 2008, as part of Continuing Promise 2008.

Lt. Cmdr. Sugat Patel, a doctor embarked aboard the USS Kearsarge, provides medical care to a Dominican child at the Bayaguana Sports Complex in Bayaguana, Dominican Republic, Oct. 15, 2008, as part of Continuing Promise 2008.

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