The United States Army celebrates their 250th anniversary on 14 June 2025. Find content from our yearlong celebration beginning with the first U.S. Army Float in the 2025 Rose Bowl Parade, Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord, Philadelphia, USPS 250th Military Stamp release and Army Birthday Week including the NMUSA Revolutionary War Exhibit, Twilight Tattoo, Army Birthday Run, Army Birthday...
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...
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...
Large Scale Global Exercise 2024 is a Department of Defense exercise coordinated by U.S. European Command in collaboration with all U.S. DoD combatant commands and will incorporate forces from the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Space and Cyber forces. These U.S. forces, operating alongside Allies and partners, will demonstrate joint and multinational military cooperation and shared...
