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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US Marines conduct OP6 Stinger live-fire exercise during ARCTIC EDGE 2026

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Sebastian GutierrezQuiroz, a low altitude air defense gunner with 3rd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, shoots a FIM-92E Stinger Missile weapon at a simulated hostile counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (c-UAS) drone with Sgt. Matthew Blake, a low altitude air defense gunner with 3rd LAAD as his assistant gunner for an OP6 Stinger live-fire exercise during ARCTIC EDGE 2026 (AE26) near Fort Greely, Alaska, March 7, 2026. AE26 is a North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S. Northern Command-led homeland defense exercise designed to improve readiness, demonstrate capabilities, and enhance Joint and Allied Force interoperability in the Arctic. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Aaron TorresLemus)

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Tags: USNorthCom, HOMELANDDEFENSE, AlwaysVigilant, AE26, ARCTICEDGE26, arct, MFRAE26

Photo by: Sgt. Aaron TorresLemus | VIRIN: 260307-M-UQ888-1037.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...