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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Reserve Marine instructs Caribbean veterans in Barbados

U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Mercer, a military policeman from Military Police Company B, Headquarters and Service Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, and an Allentown, Pa. native, leads students during a crowd control practice at Barbados Defence Force Base Paragon, Christ Church, Barbados, June 18, 2012, for Exercise Tradewinds 2012. Tradewinds is a multinational, interagency exercise designed to develop and sustain relationships that improve the capacity of U.S., Canadian and 15 Caribbean partner nations security forces to counter transnational crime and provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

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Photo by: Cpl. Nana Dannsaappiah | VIRIN: 120618-M-OS573-004.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...