Capt. Fernandez "Frank" Ponds, mission commander, Continuing Promise 2008, looks at photographs provided by Ricardo Ahumada, community leader, of the previous Los Alpes school before it burned down. An engineering team embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge will construct a new school and playground as part of the humanitarian assistance project. Kearsarge is supporting the Caribbean phase of Continuing Promise 2008, an equal-partnership mission between the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.
Petty Officer 1st Class Emmitt Hawks Jr.
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