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Susana Heapy, a medical volunteer from Project Hope embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, checks a infant for an ear infection during an exam at the Juan Comenius High School medical clinic, Puerto Cabeza, Nicaragua, Aug. 18, 2008. Kearsarge is supporting the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008, an equal-partnership mission with the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Tobago and Guyana.

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Susana Heapy, a medical volunteer from Project Hope embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, checks a infant for an ear infection during an exam at the Juan Comenius High School medical clinic, Puerto Cabeza, Nicaragua, Aug. 18, 2008. Kearsarge is supporting the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008, an equal-partnership mission with the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Tobago and Guyana.

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