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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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6th ESB puts engineering skills to the test at exercise Red Dagger
Petty Officer 3rd Class Benjamin Rawson (left), a Fleet Marine Force hospital corpsman with Company C, 6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, Marine Forces Reserve, demonstrates the use of a combat rescue sling with assistance from Cpl. Timothy E. Skronski (right), a team leader with Company C, during exercise Red Dagger at Fort Indiantown Gap, Penn., June 13, 2016. Red Dagger is a bilateral training exercise that gives Marines an opportunity to exchange tactics, techniques and procedures as well as build working relationships with their British counterparts. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Ian Leones/Released)
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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...