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.

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Partner nations participate in small arms weapons exchange during Platinum Lion 22
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July 28, 2022 | 3:25
U.S., Bulgarian and British soldiers learn how to use each other’s respective weapons systems during a weapons exchange—a familiarization and cross-training of each nations’ weapons—at Exercise Platinum Lion 22 at Novo Selo Training Area, Bulgaria, July 26, 2022. Each soldier had an opportunity to fire the U.S. Army M4A1 assault rifle, M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, and M240L machine gun; the British Army L85A3 assault rifle and L7A1 general purpose machine gun; and the Bulgarian Land Forces AK-47 assault rifle, PKM machine gun, and MGS90 sniper rifle. Exercise Platinum Lion is a Bulgarian-hosted multinational exercise designed to improve operational and tactical interoperability among participating partner nations.
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