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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 complete first Joint Fires Observer primer course
Marines with 4th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, participate in their final exercise for the Joint Fires Observer primer course at Avon Park Air Force Range in Avon Park, Florida, Aug. 11, 2017. The JFO primer course, the first of its kinda for MARFORRES ANGLICO Marines, focused on giving students pertinent and practical information for when they attend the actual course.
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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...