Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center -- Northern Strike highlights the capabilities of Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center and the Michigan National Guard. This video showcases many of the states and international partners who participated, as well as the training that took place between July 21 and August 3, 2019.
Northern Strike 19 is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting service members from more than 20 states, multiple service branches and numerous coalition countries during the last two weeks of July 2019 at 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 Capability 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 conditioning mission command, air, sea, and ground maneuver integration, together with the synchronization of fires in a joint, multinational, decisive action environment.
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Arkansans National Guard PAO Stephen Wright
Latvian Ministry of Defense PAO Gatis Indrevics
Michigan Air National Guard PAO Senior Master Sgt. Sonia Pawloski, Staff Sgt. Jacob Cessna, Tech. Sgt. Lealan Buehrer, Master Sgt. Scott Thompson, Tech. Sgt. Rachel Barton
Michigan Army National Guard PAO Staff Sgt. Tegan Kucera, Capt. Joe Legros, Spc. Chris Estrada, Lt. Col. John Hall
New Jersey National Guard PAO Master Sgt. Matt Hecht
Oregon National Guard PAO Maj. Wayne Clyne
U.S. Virgin Islands PAO Sgt. Donna Bellott, Capt. Marcia Bruno.