12 Years of Continuing Promise (Part 2)

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Since 2007, Continuing Promise, a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored and U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet-conducted deployment, has been carrying out civil-military operations, including humanitarian-civil assistance, subject matter expert exchanges, medical, dental, veterinary, engineering support, and disaster response in Latin America and the Caribbean to show U.S. support and commitment to partner nations. (Photo: U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Andrew Schneider)
The following photos highlight the Continuing Promise mission since 2015:

Continuing Promise 2015: U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Kristina Martinez and a U.S. veterinary technician assigned to 94th Combat Support Hospital Seagoville, Texas, vaccinates a calf at a local farm during Continuing Promise 2015 in Bonito Oriental, Honduras, on September 3, 2015. More than 122,000 patients and 7,000 animals overseas received health care during the six-month mission, which visited Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, and Panama. (Photo: U.S. Army Specialist Lance Hartung)

Continuing Promise 2017: The medical site in Mayapo, Colombia, on March 25, 2017 is part of the training mission to help strengthen regional partnerships while improving the lives of thousands in Guatemala, Honduras, and Colombia. From January to April 2017, U.S. military, medical, and construction personnel, as well as private aid organizations worked with host nation counterparts to provide health care and community assistance projects in each nation as part of the Continuing Promise mission. (Photo: U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Shamira Purifoy)

Continuing Promise 2018: U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Jason Souza of Bolton and Dr. Jonathan Maldonado of Guatemala, and their team of U.S. Navy and Guatemalan medical personnel remove a tumor from a patient’s face at the Hospital de Puerto Barrios in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, as part of Continuing Promise, on April 17, 2018. The mission helped strengthen regional partnerships while improving the lives of thousands of people in Honduras and Guatemala between March and May 2018. (Photo: U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist First Class Mike DiMestico)

Continuing Promise 2019: A U.S. Navy sailor assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) escort a St. Kitts patient at a temporary medical treatment site in St. Kitts and Nevis on October 6, 2019. During the USNS Comfort five-month deployment from June to November 2019 to Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Trinidad and Tobago, medical team supported regional partners in response to the regional impacts of the political and economic crisis in Venezuela. (Photo: U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Brendan Fitzgerald)

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