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U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Carrie Broom, from the USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), helps a boy paint during a volunteer community event in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, on Aug. 23, 2008. The Kearsarge, which is deployed with various embarked units and nongovernmental organizations, is supporting the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008, an equal partnership mission between the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Carrie Broom helps a boy paint.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Carrie Broom, from the USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), helps a boy paint during a volunteer community event in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, on Aug. 23, 2008. The Kearsarge, which is deployed with various embarked units and nongovernmental organizations, is supporting the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008, an equal partnership mission between the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.

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