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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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Sgt. Justin Cortez, a civil affairs specialist with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Southern Command, wears a facemask in accordance with virus prevention at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Marines and Sailors of SPMAGTF-SC take the necessary precautions to avoid a spread of the virus to continue training in order to certify themselves for their deployment in the U.S. Southern Command area of operations. The task force stands ready to deploy to Latin America and the Caribbean to conduct crisis response training and operations within the region. Cortez is a native of Miami, Florida. (U.S. Marine Corps photo illustration 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...