Seabees from the U.S. Navy's 1st Amphibious Construction Battalion hit the mark on Feb. 23, 1997, after days of bad weather delayed the inserting of a portable floating pier at Freshwater Beach, Rockhampton, Australia. The Seabees are participating in exercise Tandem Thrust '97, a combined military training exercise involving 28,000 personnel, 252 aircraft and 43 ships, and is designed to train U.S. and Australian staffs in crisis action planning and contingency response operations.