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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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2/23 Celebrates 241st Marine Corps Ball, 100 years of the Reserves
Lt. Gen. Rex C. McMillian (center left), commander of Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North and Lt. Col. Garth P. Massey (center right), commanding officer of 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, stand at attention before the entry of the birthday cake during 2/23’s 241st Marine Corps Birthday Ball held Nov. 12, 2016, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif. The Marine Corps Ball has been a Marine Corps tradition since 1951 and continues to be a time every year when Marines set aside an evening to honor fallen comrades and toast to the future success of the Corps.
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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...