U.S. Marines race down the beach at Freshwater Beach, Rockhampton, Australia.
U.S. Marines race down the beach at Freshwater Beach, Rockhampton, Australia, during exercise Tandem Thrust '97 on March 16, 1997. Tandem Thrust is 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.