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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Marines Deliver Toys for Tots in Alaska

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Joshua Purrington, the armory chief for Delta Company, 4th Law Enforcement Battalion, rides away in a snowmobile after delivering toys to the children of Takotna School during a Toys for Tots event in Takotna, Alaska, Dec. 3, 2021. Purrington, from Lubbock, Texas, dressed as Santa Claus for the Marine Corps Reserve’s annual Toys for Tots program. Marines and Airmen traveled to remote villages of Alaska’s Kuskokwim Valley in support of the Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Kelsey Dornfeld)

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Tags: Marines, MCRC, 12 MCD, reserves, toys for tots, RS PORTLAND

Photo by: Staff Sgt. Kelsey Dornfeld | VIRIN: 120321-M-PY134-1474.JPG

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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...