Marines


Northern Strike 18

About

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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Fox Co., 4th Tank Bn. braves the cold during exercise Winter Break 2018
Reserve Marine Lance Cpl. Aaron Harrison, a medium tactical vehicle replacement driver with Company F, 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, provides security to an Abrams M1A1 Main Battle Tank during a resupply mission at exercise Winter Break 2018, aboard Camp Grayling, Michigan, Feb. 10, 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...