080820-N-9620B-009 PUERTO CABEZOS, Nicaragua (Aug. 20, 2008) Lt. Cmdr. Nathan Upbelhoer, a medical augmentee embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), examines an abnormal irritation on a local Nicaraguan woman at the Juan Comenius High School medical clinic during the humanitarian assistance mission Continuing Promise (CP) 2008. Kearsarge is the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of CP, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. (

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080820-N-9620B-009 PUERTO CABEZOS, Nicaragua (Aug. 20, 2008) Lt. Cmdr. Nathan Upbelhoer, a medical augmentee embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), examines an abnormal irritation on a local Nicaraguan woman at the Juan Comenius High School medical clinic during the humanitarian assistance mission Continuing Promise (CP) 2008. Kearsarge is the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of CP, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. ( Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Erik Barker/Released) US Navy 080820-N-9620B-009 Lt. Cmdr. Nathan Upbelhoer examines an abnormal irritation on a local Nicaraguan woman

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