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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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Combat engineers conduct morning PT at the Sapper Leader Course
Marines with 2nd and 4th Combat Engineer Battalion and 8th Engineer Support Battalion run with Combat Rubber Reconnaissance Crafts during a morning physical training session at the Sapper leader Course here July 25. The students in the course were put through rigorous combat training that challenged them both physically and mentally in order to gain the title "Sapper". The two-week course was the first of its kind, designed for Reserve Marines to recieve advanced training in the combat engineer military occupational specialty. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Marcin. Platek)
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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...