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Raymond International, of Houston, Texas, was started 1897 as the Raymond Concrete Pile Company. The original Raymond was a pile-driver specialist in Nebraska. Just before World War II struck, they drove the piles for the Pentagon. In the same period, the company participated in a joint venture (Contractors, Pacific Naval Air Bases) to build Navy bases all over the Pacific. This tremendous contracting job ran a cost of $1.5 billion. It included Naval bases and air stations at Pearl Harbor, Midway, Wake, Guam, and the Philippines. Raymond International was chosen by the Bureau of Yards and Docks in 1961, along with Morrison-Knudsen of Boise, Idaho, as the nucleus for the construction work in Vietnam. That organization, later known as, Raymond, Morrison-Knudsen, Brown & Root, and J.A. Jones, was the largest consortium of construction firms in American history, and provided a major contribution to the military construction effort during the Vietnam conflict.

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