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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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Col. Vincent Dawson, the commanding officer of Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Southern Command, prepares for the task force’s activation ceremony at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, March 30, 2020. Marines with SPMAGTF- SC held the ceremony to formally activate the unit under U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South. SPMAGTF-SC will be deployed into the Southern Command area of operations to provide crisis response preparedness efforts, security cooperation training and engineering events to help strengthen relations with partner nations throughout Central and South America. Dawson is a native of Portland, Oregon. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Benjamin D. Larsen)
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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...