119th Wing members board a C-17 aircraft on the flight line at the North Dakota Air National Guard Base, Fargo, , as they prepare to depart for Exercise Southern Strike 2021 on April 9, 2021. Southern Strike 2021 is a large-scale, joint and international combat exercise hosted by the Mississippi National Guard from April 15 thru April 29, 2021. The exercise is a robust display of counter-insurgency, close-air-support, non-combatant evacuation, and maritime special operations events. Approximately 70 119th Wing members are making the trip to participate in the training exercise.

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