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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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4th LAR Completes its Largest Annual Training Exercise in Years
Lance Cpl. Armando Moreno, a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear specialist with Headquarters and Service Company, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, walks toward a simulated weapons cache that includes sarin gas at the Army National Training Center Fort Irwin, California, July 12, 2014. The CBRN Marines used their equipment to test the area for contaminants in the air and ensure the simulated gas was contained. This was part of 4th LAR’s annual training, which was the first time since the battalion’s deployment to Afghanistan in 2009 – 2010 that the companies within the battalion worked together.
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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...