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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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Cross training at its finest: LCE Marines enhance their skills with Mobile Training Team
U.S. Marine Sgt. Jorge P. Calle, left, an infantry tactics instructor with the Mobile Training Team, Command Element, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Southern Command, performs a search and rescue technique on Sgt. Francis A. Nova, an infantry tactics instructor with the MTT, during a water survival course at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, June 13, 2017. The course consisted of basic water survival skills as well as search and rescue techniques. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Serine Farahi)
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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...