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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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MARFORRES honors 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps
Col. Chris Steinhilber (left), 4th Marine Division chief of staff, and Sgt. Maj. Michael A. Miller (right), 4th MARDIV sergeant major, pay their respects during the invocation given at the annual wreath laying ceremony for Gen. Robert H. Barrow, the 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps, at Grace Church of West Feliciana, in Saint Francisville, La., Nov. 10, 2017. Since Barrow’s death in 2008, Marines with MARFORRES lay a wreath on his grave every Nov. 10 to honor him and his service. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Niles Lee/Released)
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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...