Northern Strike is a National Guard Bureau sponsored, multi-component, multinational exercise designed to build readiness and enhance interoperability with allied forces to fight and win. Northern Strike 24-2, Michigan’s largest and longest exercise designed to validate readiness of the joint reserve force, is held Aug. 3 to 17, 2024 at the National All-Domain Warfighting Center. This year's...
Exercise Native Fury 25 is a key bi-lateral exercise sponsored by U.S. Central Command. It is designed to train U.S. forces in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan that focuses on Prepositioning Force operations and aims to enhance maritime capabilities and interoperability between international partners while promoting long-term regional stability.
Exercise Viking Star is an Overseas Deployment for Training (ODT) involving the 1-125th Infantry Regiment of the Michigan Army National Guard. Soldiers from Bravo Company based in Saginaw, Michigan, conduct combative training, orienteering and joint live fire exercises with the Danish Home Guard and Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry. The exercise promotes collaboration with allied partners and...
More than 35,000 U.S., Australian, and other international military personnel will participate in exercise Talisman Sabre July 13th to August 4th, 2025 in Australia and Papua New Guinea to strengthen relationships and interoperability among key Allies and partners, enhancing our collective capability to respond to a wide array of potential security concerns and maintain a free and open...
The ORCA 25 is a full-scale multi-agency, all-hazards chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear high-yield explosives (CBRNE) exercise. This exercise is designed to reinforce interagency coordination and interoperability among WMD-CSTs, local stakeholders, and state and federal partners. By simulating CBRNE-related incidents in Juneau, ORCA 25 provided a realistic and challenging...
Former Soldiers and their families, along with community members and local officials, gathered today at the Whitmire Armory to honor its historic legacy and the citizen-Soldiers who trained within its walls. The occasion marked the dedication of a commemorative plaque recognizing the generations of service members who have passed through the armory since 1961.
NEXUS RISING 25-01 prepares 349 AMW Citizen Airmen to project decisive power in contested environments, strengthening national deterrence in support of the Air Force’s dynamic all-domain combat operations, focusing on joint and multinational interoperability. NEXUS RISING is a multifaceted exercise testing the Wing's ability to perform Agile Combat Support (ACS) taskings and support...
