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Builder Constructionman Ida Grigson, from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1, paints bearers on a rebuilt bridge during Exercise Tandem Thrust 2001 in Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia, on May 6, 2001. Grigson is deployed for Tandem Thrust which is a combined military training exercise involving more than 18,000 U.S., Australian, and Canadian personnel who are training in crisis action planning and execution of contingency response operations.

Builder Constructionman Ida Grigson paints bearers on a rebuilt bridge during Exercise Tandem Thrust 2001.

Builder Constructionman Ida Grigson, from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 1, paints bearers on a rebuilt bridge during Exercise Tandem Thrust 2001 in Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia, on May 6, 2001. Grigson is deployed for Tandem Thrust which is a combined military training exercise involving more than 18,000 U.S., Australian, and Canadian personnel who are training in crisis action planning and execution of contingency response operations.

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