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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Locked and Loaded

Lance Cpl. Joshua Arntzen (front), a radio operator with Battery M, 3rd Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, Marine Forces Reserve and Cpl. Jeffrey Mallone, a field wireman with Battery M, man the M250 machine gun on Pelham Range in Anniston, Alabama on Sept. 19, 2015. The Marines trained on three different crew-served weapons to maintain their proficiency and knowledge on each system.

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Tags: MarForRes, usmc, artillery, Battery M, machine guns, 14th Marine Regiement, Crew-served, Marine Corps, Marine Forces Reserve

Photo by: Cpl. Sara Graham | VIRIN: 130709-M-MH863-640.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...