Northern Strike 18

This page archives news and photos from Exercise Northern Strike in 2018. It highlights deployments and training, showcasing MARFORRES operational readiness and global engagement in joint, multicomponent scenarios.

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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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Master Sgt. Kevin Hunter, the bandmaster for Marine Band New Orleans, dances to the music and pumps up the crowd while Marines perform music for tornado victims in Tuscaloosa, Ala., May 5. The Marines stopped and performed at the park for the displaced Alabamans on their way to Chattanooga, Tenn., for the 62nd annual Armed Forces Day Parade.

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Tags: Lance Cpl. Zach Altemus, Marine Band New Orleans, tornado, Marine Forces Reserve

Photo by: Lance Cpl. Zach Altemus | VIRIN: 110505-M-0000A-001.jpg

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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...