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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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Ernest C. Brace awarded Purple Heart and POW Medals
Ernest C. Brace stands with Theodore C. Lyster, mutual friend of Robert Maxwell, an Army Medal of Honor recipient, prior to his Purple Heart and Prisoner-of-War Medal award ceremony at Kingsley Air Force Base, Aug. 16, 2013. Maxwell, the only living Medal of Honor recipient in Oregon, attended the ceremony because he was invited by Lyster to celebrate Brace’s heroism.
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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...