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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
Lance Cpl. William Lents, a forward observer with 4th Air Naval Ground Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, utilizes M22 binoculars to calibrate a vector so he can find the distance and direction of, and for, a target at Avon Park Air Force Range in Avon Park, Florida, Aug. 11, 2017. During the final exercise, students were given the opportunity to not only utilize equipment but to also gain valuable insight of what real-world operations would feel like when they become JFO's.
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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...