Marines


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. Laurenz Fredeluces, a landing support specialist with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Southern Command, participates in military operations on urban terrain training during a general exercise at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, April 17, 2020. MOUT training helps Marines develop small unit leadership and maintain operational readiness. The GENEX includes training events such as engineering projects and evacuation control center training scenarios that will help build the SPMAGTF-SC for their final certification exercise. These training events also provide the Marines and Sailors with real-world scenarios to prepare them for their deployment to assist partner nation militaries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Fredeluces is a native of Sacramento, 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...