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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CLB-25 Gets Mud on the Tires

Marines with Motor Transportation Services Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 25, Combat Logistics Regiment 45, practice searching a water-fording navigation course at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina Aug. 13, 2014, during exercise Heavy Metal 14. The Marines used a human chain in case the lead Marine became stuck, the others could pull him out. The lead Marine used a stick as an improvised measuring tool, to judge whether the fording area was safe for the next step.

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Tags: Combat Logistics Regiment 25, Marine, CLB 25, Forces, vehicle, Motor Transportation Services Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 25, MTS Co, CLR 25, Fording, Water, Reservist, HEAVY METAL, Reserve, Camp Lejeune, Humvee

Photo by: Cpl. J. Gage Karwick | VIRIN: 140813-M-BC491-033.JPG

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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...