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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Lance Cpl. Francis Grenham, an Echo Company machine gunner from Dedham, Mass., employs his M240B machine gun in support of a platoon attack during a live-fire training exercise here July 1, 2008. Grenham is assisted by his team leader, Cpl. Keith Anderson. A junior at Southern Maine University and an environmental science major, Grenham intends to serve overseas in the U.S. Peace Corps after completing his reserve commitment and graduating from the university. Anderson, a Millersville, Pa. native, is a construction contractor headed for his second tour in Iraq.

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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...