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Lightening illuminates the USNS Comfort during Continuing Promise 2011 in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Aug. 7, 2011. The five-month humanitarian assistance mission is making visits to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

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Lightening illuminates the USNS Comfort during Continuing Promise 2011 in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Aug. 7, 2011. The five-month humanitarian assistance mission is making visits to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

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