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U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Kathaleen Sikes, a nurse embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), examines a child at the Arima District Hospital in Trinidad and Tobago on Oct. 26, 2008. The Kearsarge is supporting the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, France, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.

Lt. Cmdr. Kathaleen Sikes examines a child.

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Kathaleen Sikes, a nurse embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), examines a child at the Arima District Hospital in Trinidad and Tobago on Oct. 26, 2008. The Kearsarge is supporting the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, France, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.

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