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A Navy sailor with Continuing Promise 2010 assists a Panamanian family fill out necessary paperwork to be medically screened at Rambala Maternity Clinic in Punta Pina, Panama, Sept. 28, 2010. The clinic is being used as a medical site for Continuing Promise personnel to conduct medical operations. Marines and Sailors of CP10 are anchored off the coast of Chiriqui Grand, Panama, to conduct humanitarian operations for 10 days. CP10 is a humanitarian civic assistance mission that provides medical, dental, veterinary, engineering support and disaster relief efforts to the Caribbean, Central and South America. - A Navy sailor with Continuing Promise 2010 assists a Panamanian family fill out necessary paperwork to be medically screened at Rambala Maternity Clinic in Punta Pina, Panama, Sept. 28, 2010. The clinic is being used as a medical site for Continuing Promise personnel to conduct medical operations. Marines and Sailors of CP10 are anchored off the coast of Chiriqui Grand, Panama, to conduct humanitarian operations for 10 days. CP10 is a humanitarian civic assistance mission that provides 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. - 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.

Staff Sgt. Leah G. Dorley, native of Hazel Park, Mich., and embarkation chief with Marine Air Control Squadron 2, checks the pulse of Sgt. Xavier W. Wethington, a simulated casualty and native of Brunswick, Ga., during a casualty assessment test of the Combat Life Saver training aboard the USS Iwo Jima, Sept. 24, 2010. Marines with MACS-2, Command Element of Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 participated in the five-day training while operating off the coast of Bluefields, Nicaragua, during their four-month deployment to the Caribbean, Central and South America. - Staff Sgt. Leah G. Dorley, native of Hazel Park, Mich., and embarkation chief with Marine Air Control Squadron 2, checks the pulse of Sgt. Xavier W. Wethington, a simulated casualty and native of Brunswick, Ga., during a casualty assessment test of the Combat Life Saver training aboard the USS Iwo Jima, Sept. 24, 2010. Marines with MACS-2, Command Element of Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 participated in the five-day training while operating off the coast of Bluefields, Nicaragua, during their four-month deployment to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

U.S. service members embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima, enter a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 774, to be transported after visiting medical and engineering sites in Bluefields, Nicaragua, Sept. 21. Service members and civilians are deployed in support of Operation Continuing Promise 2010 providing medical, dental, veterinary, engineering assistance and subject-matter exchanges to the Caribbean, Central and South America. - U.S. service members embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima, enter a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 774, to be transported after visiting medical and engineering sites in Bluefields, Nicaragua, Sept. 21. Service members and civilians are deployed in support of Operation Continuing Promise 2010 providing medical, dental, veterinary, engineering assistance and subject-matter exchanges to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

A student body consisting of one junior Nicaraguan lieutenant, a Nicaraguan Navy petty officer and six soon-to-be Nicaraguan Marine Corps corporals listen attentively as Marines give them a class on leadership principles at Naval Base El Bluff, near Bluefields, Nicaragua Sept. 19. Seven Marine non-commissioned officers and one staff NCO participated in a subject-matter expert exchange to give a leadership fundamentals course to eight members of the Nicaraguan Navy and Marine Corps. - A student body consisting of one junior Nicaraguan lieutenant, a Nicaraguan Navy petty officer and six soon-to-be Nicaraguan Marine Corps corporals listen attentively as Marines give them a class on leadership principles at Naval Base El Bluff, near Bluefields, Nicaragua Sept. 19. Seven Marine non-commissioned officers and one staff NCO participated in a subject-matter expert exchange to give a leadership fundamentals course to eight members of the Nicaraguan Navy and Marine Corps.

Guatemalan Army Special Forces soldiers or "Kaibiles" observe how a U.S. Marine positions himself to post security during a jungle patrol exercise at Poptun Training Camp in Poptun, Guatemala, Sept. 11. Patrolling in jungle terrain was part of the subject-matter expert exchange between Kaibil soldiers and Marines of Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010. - Guatemalan Army Special Forces soldiers or "Kaibiles" observe how a U.S. Marine positions himself to post security during a jungle patrol exercise at Poptun Training Camp in Poptun, Guatemala, Sept. 11. Patrolling in jungle terrain was part of the subject-matter expert exchange between Kaibil soldiers and Marines of Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010.

Guatemalan Marines execute U.S. Marine Corps martial arts bayonet thrusts, Sept. 7, at Puerto Santo Tomas de Castilla Naval Base in Guatemala. Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 taught Marine Corps martial arts techniques to Guatemalan Marines for six days. Marines with CP10 are currently deployed to the Caribbean, Central and South America conducting subject-matter expert exchanges and providing humanitarian civic assistance to host nations. - Guatemalan Marines execute U.S. Marine Corps martial arts bayonet thrusts, Sept. 7, at Puerto Santo Tomas de Castilla Naval Base in Guatemala. Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 taught Marine Corps martial arts techniques to Guatemalan Marines for six days. Marines with CP10 are currently deployed to the Caribbean, Central and South America conducting subject-matter expert exchanges and providing humanitarian civic assistance to host nations.

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.