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.

About

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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Joint Training Helps Preserve a Culture

Reserve Marine and Army personnel oversee the extension of a runway during Integrated Readiness Training Old Harbor, June 1, 2017, in Old Harbor, Alaska. Marine Aircraft Group 41, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Forces Reserve, led exercise IRT Old Harbor during which service members trained in a wide variety of skills while extending Old Harbor’s runway from 2,700 feet to 4,700 feet helping facilitate economic development.

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Tags: mag, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, Innovative Readiness Training, Reserve, OLD HARBOR, irt, Marine Corps

Photo by: Courtesy Photo | VIRIN: 170601-O-ZZ999-0001.JPG

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ARTICLES

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...