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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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4th MAW leaders attend memorial and celebration in Mississippi
Brig. Gen. Billy Nabors (left), the Mississippi Air National Guard chief of staff, and Brig. Gen. Bradley James, commanding general of 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Forces Reserve, discuss the turnout of the memorial they are attending, in Moorhead, Miss., Oct. 19, 2017. Nabors and James attended the memorial to not only remember the 15 Marines and one sailor who perished in July 2017, but to also celebrate the 200th birthday of the state of Mississippi. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Dallas Johnson)
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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...