Northern Strike 18

This page archives news and photos from Exercise Northern Strike in 2018. It highlights deployments and training, showcasing MARFORRES operational readiness and global engagement in joint, multicomponent scenarios.

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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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Corporals Course 4-25 field exercise

U.S. Marines with Headquarters Battalion, Marine Forces Reserve, post security during a patrol as part of the Corporals Course 4-25 field exercise, Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, Belle Chasse, Louisiana, Sept. 26, 2025. The field exercise tested the Marines’ leadership, decision making, and small unit tactics in a simulated environment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kanoa Thomas)

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Tags: MarForRes, small-unit leadership, leadership, Corporals Course

Photo by: Cpl. Kanoa Thomas | VIRIN: 250926-M-RY790-1571.JPG

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ARTICLES

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...