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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 refurbish housing facility
Cpl. Joseph Dutton, from Brookline, Vermont, pries nails loose in the wooden flooring in an old military housing facility, Jan. 9, 2015, during exercise Lava Viper 15-1.2. at Kawaihae Harbor, Hawaii. The housing facility is used by various military branches as a safe house while waiting for ships to arrive with vehicles and supplies. Combat engineers with Marine Wing Support Squadron-472, Marine Aircraft Group 49, 4th Marine Air Wing has been tasked to refurbish the facility because the building is deteriorating.
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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...