Stories

Navy Lt. Amber Higginson, a medical officer from Bethesda, Md., and Lance Cpl. Reinaldo Reyes, native of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, and Spanish translator from Company A, 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion, Ground Combat Element of Special-Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010, check a child for skin rashes at a medical site in a high school gymnasium in Bribri, Costa Rica, Aug. 23, 2010. Marines, sailors and USS Iwo Jima personnel are ported in Limon, Costa Rica, providing medical, dental, veterinary, community relations and engineering services to Costa Ricans as part of the CP10 mission during their deployment to the Caribbean, Central and South America. - Navy Lt. Amber Higginson, a medical officer from Bethesda, Md., and Lance Cpl. Reinaldo Reyes, native of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, and Spanish translator from Company A, 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion, Ground Combat Element of Special-Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010, check a child for skin rashes at a medical site in a high school gymnasium in Bribri, Costa Rica, Aug. 23, 2010. Marines, sailors and USS Iwo Jima personnel are ported in Limon, Costa Rica, providing medical, dental, veterinary, community relations and engineering services to Costa Ricans as part of the CP10 mission during their deployment to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Lt. Col. Paul D. Baker, commanding officer of Marine Wing Support Squadron 271 from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., puts on a cranial in preparation for his departure, Oct. 23, 2010, after visiting Marines and sailors of the Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010. Baker embarked aboard USS Iwo Jima for two days to observe operations of the CP10 team. - Lt. Col. Paul D. Baker, commanding officer of Marine Wing Support Squadron 271 from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., puts on a cranial in preparation for his departure, Oct. 23, 2010, after visiting Marines and sailors of the Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010. Baker embarked aboard USS Iwo Jima for two days to observe operations of the CP10 team.

Navy Cmdr. Gordon G. Wisbach, native of San Diego, Calif., and surgeon with Continuing Promise 2010, operates on a 13-year-old Nicaraguan child during a repair of an umbilical hernia aboard the USS Iwo Jima, Sept. 17, 2010. Marines and Sailors of CP10 worked together to support surgical operations off the coast of Bluefields, Nicaragua. CP10 is a humanitarian civic assistance mission, where USS Iwo Jima personnel is providing medical, dental, veterinary, engineering support and disaster relief efforts to the Caribbean, Central and South America. - Navy Cmdr. Gordon G. Wisbach, native of San Diego, Calif., and surgeon with Continuing Promise 2010, operates on a 13-year-old Nicaraguan child during a repair of an umbilical hernia aboard the USS Iwo Jima, Sept. 17, 2010. Marines and Sailors of CP10 worked together to support surgical operations off the coast of Bluefields, Nicaragua. CP10 is a humanitarian civic assistance mission, where USS Iwo Jima personnel is providing medical, dental, veterinary, engineering support and disaster relief efforts to the Caribbean, Central and South America.