U.S. Army Soldiers Staff Sgt. Richard Serrels, an unmanned aircraft system trainer with the 837th Brigade Engineer Battalion, and Spc. Aleksandr Blain, drone pilot assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 126th Infantry Regiment, demonstrate a live-fire exercise with a first-person view of the Neros drone during Northern Strike 26-2, at Camp Grayling, Mich., Aug. 10, 2026.
Northern Strike is an Army sponsored, multi-component, multinational exercise designed to build readiness and enhance interoperability with allied forces to fight and win. Northern Strike 26-2, Michigan’s largest and longest exercise designed to validate readiness of the joint reserve force, is held Aug. 1 to 15, 2026 at the National All-Domain Warfighting Center. This...
