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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 with 2/14 conduct annual training at WTI 1-18
Lance Cpl. Michael Ryan, a tactical data systems technician with Marine Air Support Squadron 3, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I Marine Expeditionary Force, transports tent poles to set up the direct air support center at Landing Zone Bull Attack, near the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, California, Oct. 10, 2017, in support of Weapons and Tactics Instructor course 1-18. Marines with MASS-3 established a DASC in coordination with Reserve Marines with 3rd Platoon, Rocket Battery F, 2nd Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve. Marines of 2/14 are participating in WTI 1-18 to build proficiency with the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System and to coordinate the live integration of HIMARS and the F-35B.
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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...