A Belizean contractor prepares to level a concrete slab in Hattieville, Belize, March 7, 2014, in preparation for a New Horizons 2014 school construction project. Belize Defense Force personnel and other New Horizons participants planned to build a preschool at the site. New Horizons is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored annual series of joint humanitarian assistance exercises deploying U.S. military engineers, veterinarians, medics and other professions to Central and South American nations for training, construction projects and to provide humanitarian and medical services.