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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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Celebrating Unity, Battle of New Orleans Bicentennial Chalmette Battlefield
Volunteers reenacting as American soldiers and militiamen look out onto the Chalmette Battlefield where part of the War of 1812 took place at the Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve Jan. 8, 2015. The park hosted a series of living history events at the Chalmette Battlefield in Chalmette, La., Jan. 8-10 that commemorated the bicentennial of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans.
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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...