Michigan is proving to be the ideal spot for training for military units from the United States and some of its partner forces. “Winter Strike” is a National Guard-sponsored military exercise that will be held from January 21-29 in Grayling and Alpena.
Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center and Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center comprise the National All-Domain Warfighting Center. The annual training is intentionally held during the coldest part of the year as part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Arctic strategy.
Major General Paul D. Rogers, adjutant general and director of the Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs said, “Michigan has some of the best military training facilities in the country, which makes it the perfect place for visiting units and defense industry partners to work together in a complex, all-domain environment.”
Rogers said that Michigan is receiving national recognition as an innovator because of the military exercise.
Lieutenant Colonel Adam Jenzen, Northern Strike land component exercise director called the Michigan training “one of our nation’s best reserve component exercises”.
Reporting for WGRT – Jennie McClelland
