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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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Sailors from around Marine Forces Reserve and the U.S. Navy Reserve attend a Fleet Marine Force reconnaissance corpsman screening

Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew J. Cool (center), a Fleet Marine Force reconnaisance corpsman and Inspector-Instructor medical staff with 4th Force Reonnaisance Company, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, teaches Reserve Sailors methods of waterproofing gear during a FMF reconnaisance corpsman screening in San Antonio, April 19, 2016. The screening was hosted by 4th Reconnaisance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, for Sailors across Marine Forces Reserve and the U.S. Navy Reserve to gain familiarity with the demands of the FMF reconnaisance corpsman pipeline.
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Tags: MarForRes, usmc, corpsman, Texas, reconnaissance corpsman, RECON, san antonio, Sailors, Navy, Marine Forces Reserve
Photo by: Cpl. Ian Leones |  VIRIN: 160419-M-KN381-197.JPG
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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...