Measuring a portion of the bridge is Builder 2nd Class Austin Prewitt, USN, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion One, Gulfport, Mississippi. The Seabees' are rebuilding a bridge in the Shoalwater Bay training area, Australia, during Exercise TANDEM THRUST. The Seabees' have two weeks to complete the task, and are confident it will be done before the deadline. Exercise TANDEM THRUST is a combined US, Australian, and Canadian military training exercise. This biannual exercise is being held in the vicinity of Shoalwater Bay training area, Queensland, Australia
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: TANDEM THRUST 01
Base: Rockhampton
State: Queensland
Country: Australia (AUS)
Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Jeremy Lock, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
30/04/2001
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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