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Northern Strike

This page archives news and photos from Exercise Northern Strike in 2021. It highlights deployments and training, showcasing MARFORRES operational readiness and global engagement in joint, multicomponent scenarios.

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From 31 July to 14 August, CLB 451 (-)(REIN) provides forward DS and GS logistics to JTF-85 IOT enable joint task force projection functions and conduct tactical sustainment to maximize maneuver element ability to execute area defense, offense and stability operations in support of the reestablishment of the legitimate border of Gorgas.

 

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Task force Marines conduct classes during certification exercise

Staff Sgt. Xavier Refuge, a reconnaissance Marine with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Southern Command, teaches an infantry patterns and techniques class during a certification exercise at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, April 20, 2020.The CERTEX is the culmination exercise that will test the training and readiness of the Marines and Sailors of the SPMAGTF-SC for certification to deploy. Once certified, the SPMAGTF-SC will be ready to conduct crisis response, theater security cooperation training and general engineering projects alongside partner nation militaries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Refuge is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Andy O. Martinez)