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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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2/24 Brings Steel Rain
Reserve Marines with 2/24 Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, and 4th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, MFR, call in fire support from pilots manning the A-10 Thunderbolt II, a low-altitude close air support aircraft, while conducting night operations during a fire support coordination exercise in Camp Atterbury, Ind., April 15, 2016. The Reserve Marines coordinated with both the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force to conduct combined arms training during the exercise.

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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...