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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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Marines from Company I, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, based out of Buffalo, N.Y., walk side by side, behind a company of Canadian Soldiers from the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Canadian Forces, based out of Hamilton, Ontario, April 22 during a field hike. The hike took place as part of a small-scale, 48-hour, bilateral training exercise between the U.S. Marine Corps and Canadian Forces in efforts to exchange infantry strategies and tactics as well as further enhance relationships and interoperability between the two military components. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Lucas Vega)
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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...