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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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United States Army North visits Marine Forces North
Sgt. Maj. Patrick L. Kimble (left), sergeant major of Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North, Lt. Gen. Rex C. McMillian (second from-left), commander of MARFORRES and MARFORNORTH, pose for a photo with Lt. Gen. Jeffrey S. Buchanan (second from-right), commander of United States Army North (Fifth Army) and senior commander, Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis, and Command Sgt. Maj. Ronald E. Orosz, command sergeant major U.S. Army North (Fifth Army) and senior enlisted leader, Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis, at Marine Corps Support Facility New Orleans, Jan. 24, 2017. Buchanan stopped by the facility on his way to Joint Readiness Center aboard Fort Polk, La., to meet with McMillian and to attend a MARFORNORTH command brief.
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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...