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Northern Strike 18

This page archives news and photos from Exercise Northern Strike in 2018. It highlights deployments and training, showcasing MARFORRES operational readiness and global engagement in joint, multicomponent scenarios.

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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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Sgt. Zachary Graves, an administrative clerk, left, with Marine Corps Individual Reserve Support Activity, and Sgt. Jordan Mosher, an air transportation coordination office chief with G-3, place a wreath on Maj. Daniel Carmick’s final resting place at St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, in New Orleans, Nov. 6, 2019. Marine Forces Reserve visits Carmick’s grave site each year to conduct a wreath laying ceremony in honor of his heroic actions in the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jose Gonzalez)
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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...