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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4th Force Reconnaissance Marines exchange skills with Colombian Marines

Marines with 4th Force Reconnaissance Company, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, teach a class on camouflaging and ghillie suits before the students apply these principles in a clandestine movement and stalking lane during a training exercise at Tumaco, Colombia. Marines from 4th Force Reconnaissance Co. participated in a two-week mobile training team deployment to exchange skills with new Colombian Reconnaissance Marines May 29 – June 12, 2016. Augmenting the active component to fill a needed role in an ongoing mission with a partner nation is one of the ways Marine Forces Reserve remains ready to respond to any contingency the nation might face. (Photo courtesy of 4th Force Reconnaissance Company)

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Tags: MarForRes, 4th Marine Division, 4th Force Reconnaissance Company, Marine Forces Reserve

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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...