Continuing Promise 2009: William Bromfield, U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, speaks at the opening ceremony to celebrate the start of the hospital ship USNS Comfort mission during Continuing Promise 2009 in Tumaco, Colombia, June 7, 2009. From April to July 2009, USNS Comfort provides medical care and civic assistance missions in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda, Panama, Colombia, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. During the mission, shipboard medical personnel treated more than 100,000 people. (Photo: U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jessica Snow)