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Northern Strike 18

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Exercise Northern Strike is a military readiness event hosted annually at Michigan National Guard facilities. With approximately 5,000 participating Marines, Soldiers, Airmen and Sailors, Northern Strike is one of the largest reserve component exercises supported by the U.S. military. The mission is to exercise participating units’ full-spectrum of capabilities through realistic, cost-effective joint fires training in an adaptable environment, with an emphasis on joint and coalition force cooperation.

 

 

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Indiana Marine awarded the 2013 Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone Award for Courage and Commitment
Staff Sgt. Alec Haralovich shows his Marines and friends the Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone Award for Courage and Commitment after a ceremony here, May 19, 2013. The Marines assigned to Company E, 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, gathered together to congratulate Haralovich for earning the distinction. After the ceremony, Haralovich left promptly to begin a nearly year-long deployment to train foreign forces overseas in the coming months. Haralovich is a reconnaissance Marine from Bloomington, Ind. He is assigned to Company E, 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve.
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Marines of 3/25 tackle Exercise Northern Strike 18
The hot Michigan sun is high in the sky as a Marine lays flat against the dry sand looking through his rifle optic at the battle space spread out in-front of him. Beside him, his fellow Marine fills...