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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Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 453, 4th Marine Logistics Group, showcase their progress and innovation, ranging from a biometric fingerprint scanner to three dimensional printed drone parts at their Home Training Center in San Jose, Calif., Feb. 9, 2019.

Disruptive Thinkers: CLB-453 Innovation Cell

Lance Cpl. Trevor J. Poole, an optics technician with Combat Logistics Battalion 453, 4th Marine Logistics Group, performs a test flight with a drone before continuing three dimensional printing production near the innovation cell located within the Reserve Marine's Home Training Center in San Jose, Calif., Feb. 9, 2019. While drone technology was originally intended for mostly military applications, their use is rapidly expanding to commercial, scientific, recreational, agricultural and other applications, such as policing, peacekeeping, surveillance, product deliveries and aerial photography. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Dante J. Fries)

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Tags: Marine, California, MFR, Reserve, flight, innovation, DRONE, 4thMLG, MarineForcesReserve, InnovationCell, BiometricScanner, SanJose, 3DPrinter

Photo by: Sgt. Dante Fries | VIRIN: 190209-M-WE046-516.JPG

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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...