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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Train like we fight: Reserve Marines and Sailors take part in simulated training

Sgt. Mathew W. Dearborn, data networking specialist with 4th Medical Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, Marine Forces Reserve, searches a simulated casualty for weapons and contraband before he can be brought to the Shock Trauma Platoon for treatment during Exercise Global Medic at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Aug. 17, 2016. Marines provided security for the STP to ensure that victims were not hiding explosives or other harmful substances on their body and that unauthorized personnel were not entering the STP. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Melissa Martens/Released)

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Tags: MarForRes, 4th Medical Battalion, 4th MLG, Exercise Global Medic, Fort McCoy, Marine Forces Reserve

Photo by: Lance Cpl. Melissa Martens | VIRIN: 160823-M-CK972-003.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...