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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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U.S. Marines and Airmen drop ordnance with Moroccan troops at Greir Labouihi
Lance Cpl. Isaac Garcia, a motor transportation mechanic with 4th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, watches as Lance Cpl. Jeffry Brady, a joint fires observer with 4th ANGLICO, calibrates a Vector 21B rangefinder during exercise African Lion 2019 at Greir Labouihi range, Morocco, March 26, 2019. African Lion 2019 is an annual, combined-multilateral exercise designed to improve interoperability and mutual understanding of each nation’s tactics, techniques and procedures while demonstrating a strong partnership between nation’s militaries. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Niles Lee)
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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...