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Northern Strike 18

This page archives news and photos from Exercise Northern Strike in 2018. It highlights deployments and training, showcasing MARFORRES operational readiness and global engagement in joint, multicomponent scenarios.

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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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Photo Gallery

2015 MARFORRES Sailors of the Year announced

HM1(FMF) Argenis Mendoza (second from right), leading petty officer with Surgical Company B, 4th Medical Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, Marine Forces Reserve, poses for a picture with Marines and Sailors from 4th MLG in Mozambique, Africa, during Operation Shared Accord in June 2010. Mendoza, a surgical technologist, is the Reserve component recipient of the 2015 Marine Forces Reserve Sailor of the Year award. [Courtesy photo by HM1(FMF) Argenis Mendoza]
ARTICLES

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...