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U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Paul Wickard, a U.S. Public Health Service physician's assistant traveling with the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, examines a child during the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008 in Yulu, Nicaragua, Aug. 23, 2008. This is an equal-partnership mission between the United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Tobago and Guyana.

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U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Paul Wickard, a U.S. Public Health Service physician's assistant traveling with the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, examines a child during the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008 in Yulu, Nicaragua, Aug. 23, 2008. This is an equal-partnership mission between the United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Tobago and Guyana.

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