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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A marine stands next to a wreath at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2012. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann)

Corporal Stephen Jensen, a U.S. Marine assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron-471, Marine Forces Reserve, participates in a ceremony here marking the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The ceremony, coinciding with events in New York City and Washington, D.C., featured a wreath-laying at a memorial for United Airlines Flight 93, remarks by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and was attended by roughly 150 family members and guests. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann)

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Tags: Shanksville, memorial, 9/11, CEREMONY, dress blues, Wreath-laying

Photo by: David Lienemann | VIRIN: 120927-M-ZZ999-101.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...