Northern Strike 18

This page archives news and photos from Exercise Northern Strike in 2018. It highlights deployments and training, showcasing MARFORRES operational readiness and global engagement in joint, multicomponent scenarios.

About

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, others welcome WWII vets to the Big Easy

Academy nominated actor Gary Sinise helps Francis Rumi, Sr., a World War II Navy veteran, place beads and a Marine Corps lanyard around his neck during the welcome ceremony held in honor of approximately 40 other veterans of the "Greatest Generation" at the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, June 25, 2015. Sinise and volunteers from the Gary Sinise Foundation organized a special trip for the veterans to visit the National World War II Museum in downtown New Orleans later that day.

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Tags: MarForRes, Marines, Lt. Gen. Mills, usmc, vets, Airport, WWII Vetererans, Welcome, MSgt Washington, NEW ORLEANS

Photo by: Master Sgt. K. Washington | VIRIN: 150624-M-TI204-137.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...