Story by Staff Sgt. Tristan Viglianco | Michigan National Guard | 02.04.2022
One of the many things that makes northern Michigan’s National All-Domain Warfighting Center (NADWC) so attractive to visiting units is the state-of-the-art facility and team of knowledgeable, dedicated maintenance staff at the Maneuver and Training Equipment Site (MATES). Located at the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center, the site regularly supports a variety of units visiting......
Story by Master Sgt. David Eichaker | Michigan National Guard | 02.02.2022
GRAYLING, Mich.—The National All-Domain Warfighting Center (NADWC) recently hosted several military and civilian response units from across the globe in Northern Strike 22-1 (Winter Strike 22). With more than 148,000 acres of land and temperatures dipping below zero, Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Center, which is part of the NADWC, provided an opportunity for units to refine their critical......
Story by Capt. Joe Legros | Michigan National Guard | 02.02.2022
Forward observers with 1st Battalion, 120th Field Artillery Regiment, Wisconsin National Guard, used binoculars to survey the area, observing targets such as retired tanks and other military vehicles which served as targets for field artillery guns positioned upwards of six kilometers away....
Story by Capt. Andrew Layton | Michigan National Guard | 01.28.2022
GRAYLING, Michigan -- As January ice, snow and wind blows across the National All-Domain Warfighting Center in northern Michigan, hundreds of military personnel from across the Department of Defense and allied nations are practicing tactics, training and procedures in these extreme cold weather conditions. The event is called Northern Strike 22-1 (“Winter Strike”), a National Guard......
Story by Capt. Andrew Layton | Michigan National Guard | 01.26.2022
GRAYLING, Michigan – Special Operations forces from the U.S. Army’s 20th Special Forces Group, Massachusetts Army National Guard, teamed up Jan. 24 with local first responders from Crawford, Grand Traverse, Muskegon and Roscommon counties to perform intensive hypothermia training at Lake Margrethe near Camp Grayling. The event took place during Northern Strike 22-1 (”Winter Strike”), a......
Story by Capt. Joe Legros | Michigan National Guard | 01.24.2022
Members of Foxtrot Company, 132nd Forward Support Company (F Co, 132nd FSC), currently attached to the 120th Field Artillery Regiment, based in Mosinee, Wisconsin, conducted maintenance operations in anticipation of live fire exercises in the coming days....
Story by Staff Sgt. Tristan Viglianco | Michigan National Guard | 01.10.2022
Northern Strike 22-1 (”Winter Strike”) is a National Guard Bureau sponsored exercise uniting service members from several U.S. states and partner forces from Jan. 21-30, 2022, at Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center and Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Michigan, which together comprise the National All-Domain Warfighting Center (NADWC)....