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. Sean Burke, a Reserve Marine from Company E, 2/25, searches inside a stove for hidden explosive equipment during a training exercise here June 26, 2008. A select group of reserve Marines bound for Iraq came to the Joint Center of Excellence's Search and Tactical Site Exploitation course as part of their predeployment training. Burke put his junior year of college at Temple University on hold for his first deployment overseas.

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Tags: Reserve Marine, 2/25, TSSE, Tactical Search and Site Exploitation, Lance Cpl. Sean Burke, stove for hidden explosive equipment, Ft. Irwin CA, Capt Paul Greenberg, company E

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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...