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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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Reserve Marines conduct advanced CBRN training
Lance Cpl. Nicholas J. Roach, chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense specialist with CBRN platoon, Combat Logistics Regiment 4, 4th Marine Logistics Group, calibrates his detectors before conducting CBRN training at Camp Shelby, Miss., Nov. 17, 2015 as part of a week-long Advanced Consequence Management course. Multiple detectors are used by the CBRN defense specialists that detect everything from subtle changes in the environment to the presence of weapons of mass-destruction. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Ian Leones/Released)
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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...