UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters practice sling-loading equipment, loading and offloading during Northern Strike 18 at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Alpena, Mich., Aug. 8, 2018. The sling load is used for moving equipment and can be fitted with a water bucket for fire suppression to assist in wildfire efforts. Northern Strike 18 is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting service members from many states, multiple service branches and a number of coalition countries during the first three weeks of August 2018 at the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center and the Alpe
UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters practice sling-loading equipment, loading and offloading during Northern Strike 18 at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Alpena, Mich., Aug. 8, 2018. The sling load is used for moving equipment and can be fitted with a water bucket for fire suppression to assist in wildfire efforts. Northern Strike 18 is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting service members from many states, multiple service branches and a number of coalition countries during the first three weeks of August 2018 at the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center and the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, both located in northern Michigan and operated by the Michigan National Guard. The accredited Joint National Training Capabilities exercise demonstrates the Michigan National Guard's ability to provide accessible, readiness-building opportunities for military units from all service branches to achieve and sustain proficiency in conducting mission command, air, sea, and ground maneuver integration, together with the synchronization of fires in a joint, multinational, decisive action environment. (Air National Guard
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