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Staff Sgt. Rathe Thompson (left), and Spc. Kenneth Anderson check the level and plumb of concrete block they are laying as they construct a school building at the Isidore School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sept. 20, 1996. The two U.S. Army engineers are deployed to Haiti from the 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, 864th Engineers, Fort Lewis, Wash., for a Exercise Fairwinds humanitarian relief operation.

Army engineers construct a school building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Staff Sgt. Rathe Thompson (left), and Spc. Kenneth Anderson check the level and plumb of concrete block they are laying as they construct a school building at the Isidore School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sept. 20, 1996. The two U.S. Army engineers are deployed to Haiti from the 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, 864th Engineers, Fort Lewis, Wash., for a Exercise Fairwinds humanitarian relief operation.

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