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 and Cpl. Keith Anderson (right) employ their M240B machine gun in direct support of a platoon fire and maneuver attack during a live-fire training exercise at July 1, 2008 . Grenham and Anderson are with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, a Marine Forces Reserve unit based in Harrisburg, Pa. They are going through predeployment training here in preparation for deployment to Iraq in the fall.

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Tags: Range 400, Capt. Paul Greenberg, Echo 2/25, Francis Grenham, Keith Anderson, Echo Company 2/25, MCAGCC, Twentynine Palms, marine corps air ground combat center

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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...