Marine Leaders of The Americas Conference (MLAC) 2025

Navy Lt. Amber Higginson, a medical officer from Bethesda, Md., and Lance Cpl. Reinaldo Reyes, native of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, and Spanish translator from Company A, 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion, Ground Combat Element of Special-Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010, check a child for skin rashes at a medical site in a high school gymnasium in Bribri, Costa Rica, Aug. 23, 2010. Marines, sailors and USS Iwo Jima personnel are ported in Limon, Costa Rica, providing medical, dental, veterinary, community relations and engineering services to Costa Ricans as part of the CP10 mission during their deployment to the Caribbean, Central and South America.