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NORTHERN STRIKE 25-2

NORTHERN STRIKE 25-1
4th Marine Division, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, 4th Marine Logistics Group and Force Headquarters Group
Camp Grayling, Michigan
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Exercise NORTHERN STRIKE is a JNTC accredited, Army-sponsored, National Guard Bureau program conducted twice a year (winter and summer). Northern Strike provides a venue for participating units to conduct offense, defense, and stability operations in a joint environment with a special emphasis on contested logistics, all-domain C2, and combined arms live fire. Additional opportunities include Joint Fire Support with Close Air Support (CAS), Integrated Maneuver with Fires, Force Protection, Air Mobility and C4I elements of Theater Air Ground Systems (TAGS). The exercise is a premier reserve component training event designed to build readiness with joint and partner forces. 

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Reserve Marines complete first Joint Fires Observer primer course

Marines with 4th Air Naval Ground Liaison Company and 6th ANGLICO, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, and 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company, 4th Marine Division, MARFORRES, participate in the final exercise of the 4th ANGLICO sponsored Joint Fires Observer primer course at Avon Park Air Force Range in Avon Park, Florida, Aug. 11, 2017. During the final exercise, students were given the opportunity to not only utilize equipment but to also gain valuable insight of what real-world operations would feel like when they become JFO's.