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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Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Lassendrello, an instructor with noncommissioned officer development team, Command Element, Black Sea Rotational Force 12, listens as the Bulgarian Joint Forces Command Sergeant Major, addresses the Marines prior to beginning a five-day NCO development course, May 15 at Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. The NCO development team is a mobile detachment of instructors tasked with mentoring the NCOs and officers of US partner nations in the fundamentals of leadership, to include: the roles of NCOs and officers, small-unit leadership, decision-making procedures, military professionalism and operational proficiency.

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Tags: Black Sea Rotational Force 12, black sea rotational force

Photo by: Staff Sgt. Nate Hauser | VIRIN: 120518-M-KR208-003.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...