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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Pfc. Ryan Combs, a Cincinnati native from 1st Platoon, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, writes down words in the Pashto language May 24, 2010 at the 25 Area Combat Town, Camp Pendleton, Ca. The Marines learned Pashto, the language spoken by over 30 percent of the people in Afghanistan, where the Marines will be deploying to later this year.

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Tags: PTP, War, Combat, reserves, culture, Reservist, afghanistan, pre-deployment training

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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...