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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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Squad Leaders and select support staff, from the 4th Marine Division Annual Rifle Squad competition, receive lessons on how to properly board and ride in a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska, August 1, 2018. Squad leaders from the Annual Rifle Squad Competition were air-lifted throughout the training sites in order to conduct route reconnaissance before the commencement of the four day competition. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Samantha Schwoch/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...