Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher Roland, musician
Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher Roland, musician from Atlus, Okla., gives a music lesson to a student during a Continuing Promise 2011 subject matter expert exchange at the Alpha Boys School. Continuing Pro... More
Lt. Carla Henley, left, from San Diego, and Seaman
Lt. Carla Henley, left, from San Diego, and Seaman Julian Thomas, from Jacksonville, Fla., gives practice CPR during a pediatric advanced life support class aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USN... More
Continuing Promise 2011
U.S. Fleet Forces Band members and Latter Day Saints Charities volunteers play music for patients aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort during a Continuing Promise 2011 medical communit... More
Capt. Brian Nickerson, mission commander of Continuing
Capt. Brian Nickerson, mission commander of Continuing Promise 2011, and Capt. Kathy Becker, executive officer of the military treatment facility of the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort, are ... More
Lt. Cmdr. Jeanne Jimenez, from Los Angeles, inpatient
Lt. Cmdr. Jeanne Jimenez, from Los Angeles, inpatient ward department head aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort, is interviewed about the Continuing Promise 2011 mission by Arturo Vinu... More
Airman Joshua Schell, aviation electrician's mate from
Airman Joshua Schell, aviation electrician's mate from Baltimore, fits a student for shoes during a Continuing Promise community service project at the Alpha Boys School. Samaritan's Feet, a non-governmental or... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Antonio Carranza, hospital
Petty Officer 2nd Class Antonio Carranza, hospital corpsman, from Santa Ana, Calif., conducts a subject matter expert exchange on CPR procedures with Colombian marines at Escuela Max Seidel during a Continuing ... More
Petty Officer 3rd Class Fred Vaughan, musician, from
Petty Officer 3rd Class Fred Vaughan, musician, from Dinwiddie, Va., assigned to the U.S. Fleet Forces Band, plays the saxophone during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service event. Continuing Promise is a... More
Navy personnel embarked aboard the Military Sealift
Navy personnel embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort dig holes for new sewage tanks at Escuela Cilvicito during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project. Continuing ... More
Lt. Meaghan Christopher (left), from Akron, Ohio, and
Lt. Meaghan Christopher (left), from Akron, Ohio, and Lt. Rachel Ackerman, from Deerfield Beach, Fla., label medication in the pharmacy aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort during Cont... More
Petty Officer 1st Class William Green, Religious program
Petty Officer 1st Class William Green, Religious program specialist from Washington, puts a new pair of shoes on a student during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project at the Alpha Boys School. Sa... More
Petty Officer 3rd Class Steven Freeman, musician, from
Petty Officer 3rd Class Steven Freeman, musician, from Bentonville, Ark., assigned to the U.S. Fleet Forces Band, hands out bags containing a book, crayons, a toothbrush and toothpaste after a performance at Es... More
200428-N-RR852-0079 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) The U.S.
200428-N-RR852-0079 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, and the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, fly over the hospital ship USNS C... More
Dentists embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command
Dentists embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort perform oral surgeries at the Escuela Rivas Mendez medical site during a Continuing Promise community service event. Comfort is ... More
Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric Crump, from Modesto, Calif.,
Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric Crump, from Modesto, Calif., helps Lt. Laura Modafferi, from New Hope, Pa., with packing bins of medication in the pharmacy aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Co... More
A boy hugs his dogs after a medical screening by
A boy hugs his dogs after a medical screening by veterinarians during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Ce... More
The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort
The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort is pierside during a scheduled port visit to Manta, Ecuador. Comfort is supporting Continuing Promise 2011, a five-month humanitarian assistance mission t... More
Dr. Helle Hydeskov, from Denmark, examines a puppy
Dr. Helle Hydeskov, from Denmark, examines a puppy at a temporary veterinary clinic during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Courtney Arthur, hospital corpsman,
Petty Officer 2nd Class Courtney Arthur, hospital corpsman, paints a wall at Angelica Flores Zambrano school during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service event. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanita... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Stephen Garcia, engineman,
Petty Officer 2nd Class Stephen Garcia, engineman, chips paint at Angelica Flores Zambrano school during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service event. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assist... More
200428-N-QK843-0093 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) – U.S.
200428-N-QK843-0093 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) – U.S. Marines assigned to Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment observe the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, and the U.S. Air F... More
Capt. Wendy Boruszewski, a dentist from San Diego,
Capt. Wendy Boruszewski, a dentist from San Diego, ensures a patient's dentures fit properly at the Humberto Mendez Rivas medical site during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service event. Continuing Promis... More
200428-N-RR852-0014 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) The U.S.
200428-N-RR852-0014 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, and the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, fly over the hospital ship USNS C... More
Commodore Brian Nickerson, mission commander of Continuing
Commodore Brian Nickerson, mission commander of Continuing Promise 2011, delivers remarks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a civic engineering project at the Clinica Gasper Garcia Laviana. Continuing Promis... More
Petty Officer 3rd Class Fred Vaughan, musician, assigned
Petty Officer 3rd Class Fred Vaughan, musician, assigned to the U.S. Fleet Forces Band, and members of the Jamaican Defense Force Band perform during the closing ceremony for the Jamaican phase of Continuing Pr... More
Dr. Jorge Valencia, right, a pediatric surgeon from
Dr. Jorge Valencia, right, a pediatric surgeon from Mexico, and Capt. Beth Jaklic, a Navy surgeon, perform hernia repair surgery on a patient aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort. Comf... More
Capt. David Weiss, commanding officer of the medical
Capt. David Weiss, commanding officer of the medical treatment facility aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort, gives a tour to Robert Downes, the deputy chief of mission to Nicaragua, d... More
200428-N-HT995-0416 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) – The
200428-N-HT995-0416 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) – The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, and the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, conduct a flyover to honor fron... More
Cmdr. Raymond Houk, a Navy chaplain embarked aboard
Cmdr. Raymond Houk, a Navy chaplain embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort, walks through Institucion Ciudadela Educativa Tumaco Narino during a Continuing Promise 2011 communit... More
U.S. Navy 1st Lt. Carlos Salinas, from Paraguay, embarked
U.S. Navy 1st Lt. Carlos Salinas, from Paraguay, embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort, extracts the tooth of a patient during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service proje... More
A launch from the Military Sealift Command hospital
A launch from the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) is underway past the ship during a Continuing Promise 2011 port visit to Kingston. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Mallory McKendry, musician,
Petty Officer 2nd Class Mallory McKendry, musician, from Keezletown, Va., laughs with a group of students before a concert at Institucion Ciudadela Educativa Tumaco Narino during a Continuing Promise 2011 commu... More
Samaritan's Feet, a non-governmental organization,
Samaritan's Feet, a non-governmental organization, donated shoes which were distributed to students at the Alpha Boys School during a Continuing Promise community service project. Continuing Promise is a five-m... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Brett Myers, hospital corpsman,
Petty Officer 2nd Class Brett Myers, hospital corpsman, from Danville, Va., beats an opposing player to the ball in an exhibition soccer match against Colombian Marines during a Continuing Promise 2011 communit... More
Lt. Patricia Salazar, an optometrist from San Francisco,
Lt. Patricia Salazar, an optometrist from San Francisco, checks a patient's vision at the Humberto Mendez Rivas medical site during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service event. Continuing Promise is a fiv... More
200428-N-HT995-0500 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) – The
200428-N-HT995-0500 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) – The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, and the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, conduct a flyover to honor fron... More
Harrison Hanvey, from Wichita, Texas, a civilian mariner
Harrison Hanvey, from Wichita, Texas, a civilian mariner aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort, fits a student with a new pair of shoes during a Continuing Promise 2011 community servic... More
Dentists work on a patient at Escuela Max Seidel during
Dentists work on a patient at Escuela Max Seidel during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America.
Ensign Kelly Cartwright speaks to students and facility
Ensign Kelly Cartwright speaks to students and facility at San Gregario University before a performance of the U.S. Fleet Forces Band. The band is embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS... More
Commodore Brian Nickerson, Continuing Promise 2011
Commodore Brian Nickerson, Continuing Promise 2011 mission commander, presents Project Handclasp donations. Project Handclasp is a U.S. Navy program that transports donated educational, humanitarian and goodwil... More
Sailors embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command
Sailors embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort paint the walls of Institucion Ciudadela Educativa Tumaco Narino during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project. Conti... More
Petty Officer 3rd Class Azzaria Diaz, left, a hospital
Petty Officer 3rd Class Azzaria Diaz, left, a hospital corpsman, and Latter Day Saint Charities volunteer Kristen Lee visit with a patient recovering from surgery aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital sh... More
Osvaldo Romero, left, from Latter-Day Saints Charities,
Osvaldo Romero, left, from Latter-Day Saints Charities, talks to a patient while Lt. Cmdr. James Solomon, a Navy anesthesiologist, prepares her for surgery aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS... More
200428-N-QK843-0066 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) – The
200428-N-QK843-0066 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) – The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, and the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, fly over the hospital ship USNS... More
Lt. Joshua Fair, from Canton, Mich., dribbles the ball
Lt. Joshua Fair, from Canton, Mich., dribbles the ball toward a defender in an exhibition soccer match during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian... More
U.S. Fleet Forces Band members perform during a town
U.S. Fleet Forces Band members perform during a town festival during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service event. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Centr... More
A service member embarked aboard the Military Sealift
A service member embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort plays soccer against local professors in Manta, Ecuador. Comfort is supporting Continuing Promise 2011, a five-month huma... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Kevin Cobb, aviation support
Petty Officer 2nd Class Kevin Cobb, aviation support equipment technician from Detroit, teaches students how to wash their hands during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project at the Alpha Boys Scho... More
A Colombian Marine sings for a group of students at
A Colombian Marine sings for a group of students at Institucion Ciudadela Educativa Tumaco Narino during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assi... More
Service members and civilians embarked aboard the Military
Service members and civilians embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrive at a school near a temporary medical clinic to conduct a Continuing Promise 2011 medical co... More
The U.S. Fleet Forces Band plays a song for the Alpha
The U.S. Fleet Forces Band plays a song for the Alpha Boys School concert band during a Continuing Promise 2011 subject matter expert exchange at the Alpha Boys School. Continuing Promise is a five-month humani... More
Petty Officer 3rd class Trent Perrin, musician, from
Petty Officer 3rd class Trent Perrin, musician, from Worthington, Ohio, assigned to the U.S. Fleet Forces Band, leads fellow band members around the students of Escuela Pedro Fermin Cevallos during a Continuing... More
Petty Officer 3rd Class Loralee Swanson, musician from
Petty Officer 3rd Class Loralee Swanson, musician from Rapid City, S.D., listens as trombone players from the Alpha Boys School concert band play a song during a Continuing Promise 2011 subject matter expert ex... More
Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher Roland, musician,
Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher Roland, musician, from Blair, Okla., talks with a group of students before a concert at Institucion Ciudadela Educativa Tumaco Narino during a Continuing Promise 2011 communi... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Dave Ward, musician, from Tremonton,
Petty Officer 2nd Class Dave Ward, musician, from Tremonton, Utah, assigned to the U.S. Fleet Forces Band, plays drums with a student at Escuela Pedro Fermin Cevallos during a Continuing Promise 2011 community ... More
Sailors embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command
Sailors embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort paint the walls of Institucion Ciudadela Educativa Tumaco Narino during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project. Conti... More
Lt. Cmdr. Karl Mitchell, from Norwell, Mass., attaches
Lt. Cmdr. Karl Mitchell, from Norwell, Mass., attaches EKG leads to 101-year-old Irene Becerra before cataract surgery aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort during a Continuing Promise ... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Antonio Carranza, hospital
Petty Officer 2nd Class Antonio Carranza, hospital corpsman, from Santa Ana, Calif., conducts a subject matter expert exchange on CPR procedures with Colombian marines at Escuela Max Seidel during a Continuing ... More
Personnel embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command
Personnel embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort participate in a steel beach picnic as the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain passes by. Comfort is deployed supporting C... More
Lt. Cmdr. Jeanne Jimenez, from Los Angeles, inpatient
Lt. Cmdr. Jeanne Jimenez, from Los Angeles, inpatient ward department head aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort, is interviewed about the Continuing Promise 2011 mission by Arturo Vinu... More
Dr. César Jayashi Flores examines a boy's cat at a
Dr. César Jayashi Flores examines a boy's cat at a temporary veterinary clinic during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to t... More
Hospitalman Arianna Loaiza, from Peekskill, N.Y., helps
Hospitalman Arianna Loaiza, from Peekskill, N.Y., helps a student at Escuela Presidente Velasco Ibarra with a donated backpack during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service event. The backpack was donated ... More
Commodore Brian Nickerson, mission commander of Continuing
Commodore Brian Nickerson, mission commander of Continuing Promise 2011, answers questions from journalists following a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a civic engineering project at the Clinica Gasper Garcia Lavia... More
Seaman Kourtney Reese, engineman fireman, from Pensacola,
Seaman Kourtney Reese, engineman fireman, from Pensacola, Fla., watches the Ecuadorian Police Department's K-9 unit perform during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service event at Angelica Flores Zambrano s... More
Petty Officer 3rd Class Steve Freeman, musician, from
Petty Officer 3rd Class Steve Freeman, musician, from Austin, Texas, plays a trumpet for a Colombian boy before a concert at Institucion Ciudadela Educativa Tumaco Narino during a Continuing Promise 2011 commun... More
The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort
The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) is conducting a Continuing Promise 2011 port visit to Kingston. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribb... More
Engine Utility Willie Grant, one of more than 70 civil
Engine Utility Willie Grant, one of more than 70 civil service mariners aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort, lights off a burner on the starboard boiler in the engine compartment aboa... More
Patients and family members wait in a pre-operative
Patients and family members wait in a pre-operative holding area before surgery aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort. Comfort is the primary platform for Continuing Promise 2011, a fiv... More
Doctors remove a bullet from a 23-year-old Colombian
Doctors remove a bullet from a 23-year-old Colombian woman's cheek during a Continuing Promise 2011 medical community service project aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort. Continuing P... More
Service members and civilians embarked aboard the Military
Service members and civilians embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort play soccer against local professors in Manta, Ecuador. Comfort is supporting Continuing Promise 2011, a fiv... More
Petty Officer 2nd Class Dave Ward, musician, from Tremonton,
Petty Officer 2nd Class Dave Ward, musician, from Tremonton, Utah, assigned to the U.S. Fleet Forces Band, plays the drums during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service event. Continuing Promise is a five-... More
Members of the U.S. Fleet Forces Band perform during
Members of the U.S. Fleet Forces Band perform during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service event. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to the Caribbean, Central and South Ame... More
Ensign Marshall Trudell, a neo-natal intensive care
Ensign Marshall Trudell, a neo-natal intensive care doctor from Gloucester, Va., and Mexican navy Lt. Fernando Montiel, a nurse from Vera Cruz, Mexico, assist a patient after his surgery aboard the Military Sea... More
Kristen Lee, a volunteer with Latter-day Saints Charities,
Kristen Lee, a volunteer with Latter-day Saints Charities, shows students at Escuela Sucre #10 how to brush their teeth during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project. Continuing Promise is a five-m... More
Colombian children build a house out of scrap wood
Colombian children build a house out of scrap wood as Navy personnel build new classrooms at Escuela Cilvicito during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project. Continuing Promise is a five-month huma... More
200428-N-HT995-0408 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) – The
200428-N-HT995-0408 NEW YORK (April 28, 2020) – The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, and the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, conduct a flyover to honor fron... More
Navy ophthalmologists Capt. William Sray and Lt. Eva
Navy ophthalmologists Capt. William Sray and Lt. Eva Chou remove a cataract from 101-year-old Irene Becerra aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort during a Continuing Promise 2011 commun... More
Lt. Cmdr. Linda Wisman shows photos on her camera to
Lt. Cmdr. Linda Wisman shows photos on her camera to a child at Escuela Max Seidel during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project. Continuing Promise is a five-month humanitarian assistance mission ... More
Petty Officer 3rd Class Ricardo Ramirez, hosptial corpsman,
Petty Officer 3rd Class Ricardo Ramirez, hosptial corpsman, and Air Force Capt. Tanya Yelverton, a medical administrator, walk a patient to her family after she received medical care aboard the Military Sealift... More
Sailors embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command
Sailors embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort paint the walls of Institucion Ciudadela Educativa Tumaco Narino during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service project. Conti... More
Lt. Patricia Salazar, an optometrist from San Francisco,
Lt. Patricia Salazar, an optometrist from San Francisco, checks a patient's vision at the Humberto Mendez Rivas medical site during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service event. Continuing Promise is a fiv... More
Continuing Promise 2011
A sailor assigned to Mobile Security Squadron 6 receives his Enlisted Expeditionary Warfare Specialist device during a pinning ceremony aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort during Con... More
Seaman Will Cavanaugh, hospitalman, from Chicago, and
Seaman Will Cavanaugh, hospitalman, from Chicago, and Seaman Taylor North, master-at-arms, from San Diego, paint a wall at Institucion Ciudadela Educativa Tumaco Narino during a Continuing Promise 2011 communit... More
Petty Officer 1st Kim Williams, mass communication
Petty Officer 1st Kim Williams, mass communication specialist, talks with a student while painting a wall at Angelica Flores Zambrano school during a Continuing Promise 2011 community service event. Continuing ... More
Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding, center, discusses
Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding, center, discusses the capabilities of the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort with U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica Pamela Bridewater and Capt. Kathy Becker, exe... More
Augustus Lartey, hospitalman, escorts a patient from
Augustus Lartey, hospitalman, escorts a patient from the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort during a Continuing Promise 2011 medical community service project. Continuing Promise is a five-mont... More
Kari Williams, Continuing Promise 2011 international
Kari Williams, Continuing Promise 2011 international program director for education, gives a new pair of shoes to a student during a Continuing Promise community service project at the Alpha Boys School. Samari... More
Capt. Beth Jaklic, left, and Cmdr. Eric Gessler perform
Capt. Beth Jaklic, left, and Cmdr. Eric Gessler perform an open appendectomy on Petty Officer 3rd Class Mikhail Grigoryev aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort. Grigoryev was airlifted... More