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, Sailors load LCACs, LAVs onto USS Germantown

U.S. Marines with Echo Company, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, unload an LAV-25 Light Armored Vehicle aboard the USS Germantown (LSD 42), a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship, off the coast of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Aug. 13, 2024. The USS Germantown is underway with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, for UNITAS 24. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Logan Courtright)

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Tags: Marines, LCAC, Blue Diamond, Preparation, 1st marine division, USS GERMANTOWN

Photo by: COMMSTRAT | VIRIN: 240813-M-OL443-1099.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...