Local community leaders visited Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Alpena, Mich., on Aug. 10, 2018, as part of a special "community day" tour and orientation which showcased the capability of visiting units operating from Alpena CRTC for exercise Northern Strike 18. The orientation also articulated Northern Strike 18's critical role in ensuring the readiness of joint and coalition military organizations in a realistic, joint-fires training environment. Northern Strike 18 is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting service members from many states, multiple service branches a


Local community leaders visited Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Alpena, Mich., on Aug. 10, 2018, as part of a special "community day" tour and orientation which showcased the capability of visiting units operating from Alpena CRTC for exercise Northern Strike 18. The orientation also articulated Northern Strike 18's critical role in ensuring the readiness of joint and coalition military organizations in a realistic, joint-fires training environment. 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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