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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Clearing a path

A U.S. Marine with Charley Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, observes effects of an anti-personnel obstacle breaching system (APOB) while executing Range 400 during Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) 4-22 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), Twentynine Palms, Calif., July 25, 2022. As the Marine Corps Reserve’s premier annual training event, ITX provides opportunities to mobilize geographically dispersed forces for a deployment; increase combat readiness and lethality; and exercise MAGTF command and control of battalions and squadrons across the full spectrum of warfare. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. David Intriago)

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Tags: Range 400, 1/7, 1st MARDIV, usmcnews, ITX, MFRITX422

Photo by: Lance Cpl. David Intriago | VIRIN: 220725-M-NA519-1388.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...