Keywords: US Navy 081012-N-4515N-028 Eliecer Cruz Alvarez watches Dr. Sharon Weintraub perform a hernia operation.jpg en CARIBBEAN SEA Oct 12 2008 Eliecer Cruz Alvarez right a general surgeon with the Dominican National Police watches Dr Sharon Weintraub a Project HOPE volunteer and Dr Ricardo Guimaraes from the Brazilian navy perform a hernia operation on a Dominican man aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge LHD 3 Kearsarge is the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of the humanitarian/civic assistance mission Continuing Promise CP 2008 an equal-partnership mission involving the United States Canada the Netherlands Brazil France Nicaragua Colombia Dominican Republic Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana U S Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Joshua Adam Nuzzo/Released 2008-10-12 081012-N-4515N-028 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 65215 U S Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Joshua Adam Nuzzo PD-USGov-Military-Navy Aboard USS Kearsarge LHD-3 |