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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California Montford Point Marines awarded Congressional Gold medal

Sergeant Riley A. McCray, a Montford Point Marine, in his Service “A” Uniform. McCray is now 87 and resides in Oakland, Calif. McCray earned the Congressional Gold Medal by presidential order for being one of the 20,000 African-American Marines to serve in the Corps between 1942 and 1949 during a time of racism and segregation. “That was the worst thing that I have experienced in my life,” said McCray, who was from then-violent west Philadelphia. “It was worse than my neighborhood at the time.”

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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...