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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. Christopher Banweg, a reserve Marine civil affairs officer, teaches a local Afghan farmer how to operate a radio here Dec. 10, 2009. Banweg recently returned from a seven-month tour with the 4th Civil Affairs Group in Afghanistan. (Published with permission of The Christian Science Monitor, not authorized for republication)

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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...