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Northern Strike 18

This page archives news and photos from Exercise Northern Strike in 2018. It highlights deployments and training, showcasing MARFORRES operational readiness and global engagement in joint, multicomponent scenarios.

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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.

 

 

VIDEOS

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Photo Gallery

4th Combat Engineer Battalion returns home from deployment with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Africa

PARKVILLE, Md. – From right to left, Lt. Col. Thomas Marble, commanding officer of 4th Combat Engineer Battalion; Sgt. Maj. Athanasios Verros, sergeant major of 4th CEB; Mrs. Janice Chance, chaplain for the American Gold Star Mothers Maryland chapter; Amy Seeberger, a representative from Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski’s office and Jerome Stephens, a representative from Maryland Senator Ben Cardin’s office; listen to the welcoming remarks at the 4th CEB homecoming celebration in Maryland, Jan. 21, 2014. The Marines deployed to Africa to train foreign militaries in areas including combat marksmanship, combat life saving techniques, logistics, vehicle maintenance and combat engineering, among others. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Tiffany Edwards)
ARTICLES

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...