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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. Tin Nguyen, a reserve infantry officer with 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, gives toys and candy to local children during a Dec. 22, 2009 patrol to meet with local elders in a rural village here. The battalion's reserve officers are currently leading several hundred Marines in counterinsurgency operations during their seven-month deployment to Afghanistan.

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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...