Marines with Echo Company, 4th Reconnaissance Battalion based in Joliet, Illinois attach their carabiner to their Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction (SPIE) rope before being extracted in the landing zone of the Grayling parade field at Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center during Northern Strike 17, Aug. 7, 2017. Northern Strike 17 is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting approximately 5,000 service members from 13 states and five coalition countries during the first two weeks of August 2017 at the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center and the Alpena Combat Readines

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Marines with Echo Company, 4th Reconnaissance Battalion based in Joliet, Illinois attach their carabiner to their Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction (SPIE) rope before being extracted in the landing zone of the Grayling parade field at Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center during Northern Strike 17, Aug. 7, 2017. Northern Strike 17 is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting approximately 5,000 service members from 13 states and five coalition countries during the first two weeks of August 2017 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. (Photo by Sgt. Seth LaCount, Michigan Army National Guard)

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