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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
Phil Bryant (center), the governor of Mississippi, and his wife Deborah Bryant, bow their heads in prayer during the invocation, led by Ray Bridges (right), at the Mississippi Bicentennial Celebration, in Moorhead, Miss., Oct. 19, 2017. The Moorhead Garden Club held Mississippi's 200th birthday in Moorhead to not only celebrate the state's birthday, but to also honor, and pay tribute to, the 15 Marines and one sailor who perished in a C-130 plane crash on July 10, 2017, in the nearby county of Leflore. (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...