| During the MANSFIELD's four day port visit to Bangkok, Thailand, from 28 November to 1 December, fifteen volunteer crew members undertook a people-to-people project. The men spent a full day helping to construct a nursery school and social welfare center in Bangkok's poverty ridden Wat Pai District.
Using funds made available by Commander, Seventh Fleet, the crew members purchased a truckload of fill earth for the marshy lot, cement flagstones to make a walkway to the school building, and creosote to preserve to wooden lattice work on the school. |
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 During the day, the crew members cleared several tons of palm logs from the school lot. |
 Creosote will be the only protection the wooden walls have from Thailand's tropical climate. |
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