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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Bryan Hensel, left and Tech. Sgt. Les Ressler, center, pass sandbags along a human chain formed by North Dakota National Guard crews as they build a temporary levee in Fargo, N.D., April 7, 2009. Hensel and Ressler are assigned to the 119th Aircraft Maintenance and Logistics Readiness Squadron. Crews are building the levee to block water rising for the second time in recent weeks from the Red River along the North Dakota-Minnesota border.

SANDBAG SHUFFLE

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Bryan Hensel, left and Tech. Sgt. Les Ressler, center, pass sandbags along a human chain formed by North Dakota National Guard crews as they build a temporary levee in Fargo, N.D., April 7, 2009. Hensel and Ressler are assigned to the 119th Aircraft Maintenance and Logistics Readiness Squadron. Crews are building the levee to block water rising for the second time in recent weeks from the Red River along the North Dakota-Minnesota border.

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