Chiefs are pinned in Nicaragua.

BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua (Sep. 16, 2010) Chief Culinary Specialist Lafern Craig, from St. Thomas, Jamaica, salutes the side boys as she is piped in during a chief petty officer pinning ceremony aboard the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7). Iwo Jima is off the coast of Nicaragua in support of Continuing Promise 2010, a humanitarian civic assistance mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked aboard is working with partner nations to provide medical, dental, veterinary, engineering assistance to improve mutual understanding of medical issues and technology. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Christopher Stoltz)(U.S.Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Christopher B. Stoltz.) File# 100916-N-9964S-074