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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Bryan P. Smith, a Marine Air-Ground Task Force planner with Marine Air Control Group 28 and assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010, gives a student a backpack filled with school supplies at Hone Creek School in Hone Creek, Costa Rica, on Aug. 25, 2010. Service members and civilians were deployed in support of Continuing Promise to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in the Caribbean, Central America and South America.

Cpl. Bryan P. Smith gives a student a backpack filled with school supplies.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Bryan P. Smith, a Marine Air-Ground Task Force planner with Marine Air Control Group 28 and assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010, gives a student a backpack filled with school supplies at Hone Creek School in Hone Creek, Costa Rica, on Aug. 25, 2010. Service members and civilians were deployed in support of Continuing Promise to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in the Caribbean, Central America and South America.

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