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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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Marines gain knowledge, assist community at Innovative Readiness Training Old Harbor
OLD HARBOR, Alaska - Cpl. Luis Ibarra, an electrical equipment repair technician with Marine Wing Support Squadron (MWSS) 473, observes a Bull Dog Fish through a microscope, with Angel Christiansen, a middle school student of Old Harbor, Alaska, July 15. Reserve Marines attended a biology lab presented by Dr. Switgard Duesterloh, a marine biologist from Kodiak College, Alaska. Reserve Marines participating in Innovative Readiness Training Old Harbor, worked with the students during their liberty period. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. David Waite)
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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...