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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
Sgt. Maj. Anthony Spadaro, sergeant major for Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North, explains the importance of the cake cutting tradition on the Marine Corps birthday to parishioners and guests of Grace Episcopal Church in St. Francisville, La., Nov. 10, 2015. The Marines of MarForRes held a cake cutting ceremony following a wreath-laying ceremony to honor Gen. Robert H. Barrow, 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps and native of St. Francisville.
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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...