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 Senior Airman Kelly OConnor
Astral Knight 2019
100th Air Refueling Wing
June 6, 2019 | 1:20
A U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II from the 388th Fighter Wing, Hill AFB, Utah receives fuel from a 100th Air Refueling Wing KC-135 Stratotanker from RAF Mildenhall, England, during exercise Astral Knight over Italy, June 3, 2019. AK19 is a joint, multinational exercise designed to test Integrated Air and Missile Defense capabilities and will involve a combination of flight operations and computer-assisted exercise scenarios. Participants include the U.S. Air Forces in Europe, U.S. Army Europe forces, and members from the Italian and Croatian air forces.

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We recently refueled over Italy for an exercise called Astral Knight and met up with some F-35s. Let's just say it was a pretty big deal and those F-35s sure were thirsty. Out to Italy and back? No problem.
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