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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.

 

 

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4th Law Enforcement Battalion, Canadian Army kick down barriers, strengthen relationships during Exercise Tradewinds 2014

Pfc. Mateo Fernandez of the Dominican Republic Armed Forces shouts commands as he simulates clearing a room during Exercise Tradewinds 2014 at Las Calderas Naval Base, June 19, 2014. Tradewinds 2014 is a joint, combined exercise conducted in order to build partner nation counter-transnational organized crime missions, humanitarian aid and disaster response operations capacity. The ultimate goal of Tradewinds 2014 is to promote interoperability and multinational relationships throughout the Caribbean theater.
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...