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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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Reserve Marines Demonstrate Spectrum of Capabilities during Northern Strike 17
CAMP GRAYLING, Mich. –U.S. Marines from Echo Company, 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marines Forces Reserve, pull their combat rubber raiding craft from Lake Margrethe, at Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center, Michigan, during exercise Northern Strike 2017, July 31, 2017. Northern Strike 2017 brought together Reserve Marine from across the country to provide realistic combined arms trainings to cover a spectrum of combat scenarios. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Niles Lee/Released)
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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...