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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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MARFORRES commander Lt. Gen. Rex C. McMillian honors 227th Commandant Gen. Robert H. Barrow at wreath-laying ceremony
Lt. Gen. Rex C. McMillian, commander of Marine Forces North and Marine Forces Reserve, place a wreath at the gravesite of Gen. Robert H. Barrow, the 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps, during an annual ceremony held at Grace Episcopal Church in St. Francisville, La., Nov. 10, 2015. Barrow’s children and several of his extended family and friends gathered to pay their respects to the former commandant who died Oct. 30, 2008.
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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...