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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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U.S. and Korean Marines share valuable training at Peninsula Express 15
Cpl. Lucas G. Hubanks (right) with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment shows Cpl. Sang Kyung Park, a machine gunner with 6th Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Regiment, ROK Marines, how to sight in with the M240B machine gun during Peninsula Express 15-8 in Pohang, Republic of Korea, July 4, 2015. Peninsula Express is the eighth iteration this year of the Korean-Marine Exchange Program and the first time Marine Forces Reserve has participated in the series of exercises between the U.S. and Republic of Korea Marine Corps designed to build interoperability and tactical familiarity between partner nations.
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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...