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 bring the mettle in Exercise Heavy Metal 2014

Marines with 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, conduct an assault on a simulated enemy town Aug. 17, 2014, aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., during exercise Heavy Metal 14. During the assault, infantrymen moved from house-to-house, clearing them of all simulated enemy forces. Simultaneously, tanks and armored vehicles moved alongside them through the streets during the combined arms attack

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Tags: Marine Corps Reserves, 1st Battalion 25th Marines, Marines, Abrams, tanks, MAGTF, Combat engineers, Cpl. J. Gage Karwick, Motor Transportation, artillery, M1Ai Abrams, Final Exercise, Marine Air-Ground Task Force, Reservist, North Carolina, Camp Lejeune, Marine Corps

Photo by: Cpl. J. Gage Karwick | VIRIN: 140818-M-BC491-270.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...