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(From left) Sgt. Maj. Kevin J. Gilligan, sergeant major of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 774, and Lt. Col. Chris S. Richie, commanding officer of Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010, salute the U.S. flag during the national anthem at the Panama opening ceremony held at Rambala Maternity Clinic in Punta Pina, Panama, Sept. 28, 2010. Marines and Sailors of CP10 are anchored off the coast of Chiriqui Grand, Panama, to conduct humanitarian operations for 10 days. CP10 is a humanitarian civic assistance mission that provides medical, dental, veterinary, engineering support and disaster relief efforts to the Caribbean, Central and South America. - (From left) Sgt. Maj. Kevin J. Gilligan, sergeant major of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 774, and Lt. Col. Chris S. Richie, commanding officer of Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010, salute the U.S. flag during the national anthem at the Panama opening ceremony held at Rambala Maternity Clinic in Punta Pina, Panama, Sept. 28, 2010. Marines and Sailors of CP10 are anchored off the coast of Chiriqui Grand, Panama, to conduct humanitarian operations for 10 days. CP10 is a humanitarian civic assistance mission that provides medical, dental, veterinary, engineering support and disaster relief efforts to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

A U.S. Marine with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 774, attached to Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 (CP10), provides aircrew support aboard a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter, while transporting leaders to the closing ceremony of humanitarian assistance and subject-matter expert exchanges, in Bluefields, Nicaragua, Sept. 24, 2010. Service members and civilians are deployed in support of CP10 providing medical, dental, veterinary, engineering assistance and subject-matter exchanges to the Caribbean, Central and South America. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Samuel R. Beyers/Released) - A U.S. Marine with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 774, attached to Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 (CP10), provides aircrew support aboard a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter, while transporting leaders to the closing ceremony of humanitarian assistance and subject-matter expert exchanges, in Bluefields, Nicaragua, Sept. 24, 2010. Service members and civilians are deployed in support of CP10 providing medical, dental, veterinary, engineering assistance and subject-matter exchanges to the Caribbean, Central and South America. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Samuel R. Beyers/Released)

Staff Sgt. Leah G. Dorley, native of Hazel Park, Mich., and embarkation chief with Marine Air Control Squadron 2, simulates applying a needle thoracentesis to Sgt. Xavier W. Wethington, a simulated casualty and native of Miami, Fla., during a casualty assessment test of the Combat Life Saver training aboard the USS Iwo Jima, Sept. 24, 2010. Marines with MACS-2, Command Element of Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 participated in the five-day training while operating off the coast of Bluefields, Nicaragua, during their four-month deployment to the Caribbean, Central and South America. - Staff Sgt. Leah G. Dorley, native of Hazel Park, Mich., and embarkation chief with Marine Air Control Squadron 2, simulates applying a needle thoracentesis to Sgt. Xavier W. Wethington, a simulated casualty and native of Miami, Fla., during a casualty assessment test of the Combat Life Saver training aboard the USS Iwo Jima, Sept. 24, 2010. Marines with MACS-2, Command Element of Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 participated in the five-day training while operating off the coast of Bluefields, Nicaragua, during their four-month deployment to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

A student body consisting of one junior Nicaraguan lieutenant, a Nicaraguan navy petty officer and six soon-to-be Nicaraguan Marine Corps corporals listen attentively as Marines give them a class on leadership principles at Naval Base El Bluff, near Bluefields, Nicaragua, Sept. 19. Seven Marine non-commissioned officers and one staff NCO participated in a subject-matter expert exchange to give a leadership fundamentals course to eight members of the Nicaraguan navy and Marine Corps. - A student body consisting of one junior Nicaraguan lieutenant, a Nicaraguan navy petty officer and six soon-to-be Nicaraguan Marine Corps corporals listen attentively as Marines give them a class on leadership principles at Naval Base El Bluff, near Bluefields, Nicaragua, Sept. 19. Seven Marine non-commissioned officers and one staff NCO participated in a subject-matter expert exchange to give a leadership fundamentals course to eight members of the Nicaraguan navy and Marine Corps.