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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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Company F, 4th Tank Battalion at Winter Break 2018
Lance Cpl. Matthew Bonestell, a tank systems mechanic with Company F, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, chops wood during exercise Winter Break 2018 on Camp Grayling, Michigan, Feb. 7, 2018. Winter Break 18 allows the Marines of Fox Co. to develop essential mechanized infantry tactics and offensive and defensive capabilities in an austere cold weather environment. This exercise greatly increases the Reserve Component’s interoperability with the Active Component.
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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...