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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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Pushing Through the Pain
A Bulgarian soldier strikes a bag with his baton while training in a non-lethal weapons class during exercise Platinum Wolf 2016 at Peacekeeping Operations Training Center South Base in Bujanovac, Serbia, May 13, 2016. Seven countries including Bosnia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, and the United States joined together to conduct peacekeeping operations and non-lethal weapons training over the course of two weeks. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Sara Graham)
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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...