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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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Lance Cpl. Ismael Renteria, a heavy equipment operator with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Southern Command, operates a TRAM 624KR Tractor during a command post exercise at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, April 6, 2020. The Marines and Sailors of SPMAGTF-SC use this training opportunity during CPX to show their capabilities in a controlled environment. SPMAGTF-SC will be deployed into the Southern Command area of operation to provide crisis response preparedness efforts, security cooperation training and engineering events to help strengthen relations with partner nations throughout Central and South America. Renteria is a native of Atwater, California. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Andy O. Martinez)
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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...