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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Capt. Joseph Graves, a platoon commander with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, works with an Iraqi Police Officer to defuse a public disturbance during a training exercise July 21, 2008 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. The exercise was designed to provide Marines the opportunity to work with native-born Iraqi role players in a realistic scenario to prepare them for an upcoming deployment.

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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...