About Justified Accord

Justified Accord is U.S. Africa Command’s largest exercise in East Africa. Led by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF), this multi-national exercise brings together more than 20 countries from 3 continents to increase partner readiness for peacekeeping missions, crisis response and humanitarian assistance.​ 

Southern European Task Force - Africa leads this joint, all-domain exercise in East Africa to enable future operations, maintain strategic access, and build partner capacity to disrupt malign influence, aggression, and activity.

Justified Accord 25 features the first-ever night iteration of air-to-ground integration (AGI) operations where partner countries control Kenyan air assets to provide air support of multinational land forces.

This years iteration also marks the 10-year anniversary of the State Partnership Program between the Massachusetts National Guard and the Kenya Defence Forces. This milestone highlights a decade of sustained military cooperation, training exchanges and capacity-building efforts between the two forces.

Read the Press Release here.

   

 

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Video by Kyle Davis
AH-64 Fratricide Incident | Desert Storm
Army University Press
March 3, 2025 | 15:11
Fratricide, also known as friendly fire, is an ever present risk during combat and live fire exercises. This film examines the tragic fratricide incident of February 17, 1991, involving AH-64 Apache helicopters from 1-1 Aviation Battalion and ground forces from 1-41(MECH) Infantry Battalion during Operation Desert Storm. This film is designed for use by the US Army Aviation Center of Excellence and other military schools as a primer for discussions on mitigating the risk of fratricide during combat operations. This in-depth analysis covers the friendly fire event using gun camera footage and the actual cockpit communications from that night. Additionally, this film examines the incident’s impact on future military aviation and tactics. Learn how rules of engagement, IFF failures, and battlefield confusion contributed to the incident and the death of two US Army soldiers, CPL Jeffery T. Middleton and PVT Robert D. Talley.

Chapters:
0:12 Introduction
1:38 Task Force Iron
2:14 ATP 3-90.4 (Counter-Reconnaissance)
3:25 Breach
4:19 17 February 1991
5:16 Chance and Uncertainty
5:43 ATP 3-20.96
6:24 The Incident
11:14 Lessons Learned
13:26 Conclusion

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