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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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Operation Nordic Frost prepares Marines for cold weather operations
First Lt. Michael T. O’Neill, a platoon commander with Company A, 1st Battalion, 25th Marines, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve , gives an overview of the patrol to his team during training exercise Nordic Frost, Jan. 8, 2016, at Ethan Allen Training Center in Jericho, Vt. The patrol consisted of heavy machine gun suppressive fire as a team of Marines advanced under the tree line to assault a simulated enemy bunker.
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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...