Marines


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
Michelle Muller, a tactical air control party program manager for Marine Forces Reserve, plots coordinates on a map during the final exercise of the Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company primer course at Avon Park Air Force Range in Avon Park, Florida, Aug. 11, 2017. The purpose of taking the students out to participate in a dry-fire exercise was to provide a live training event that would increase training value more so than what the Deployable Virtual Training Environment can provide. The DVTE is a computer system that teaches Marines how to plot coordinates to find a target and destroy it, all through a virtual simulation.

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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...