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 2nd Lt. Rachel Henson
Tradewinds 2018 Airplane Crash Scenario Broll
Joint Force Headquarters - Mississippi National Guard
June 10, 2018 | 1:26
Local responders of St. Kitts and Nevis conduct an airplane crash simulation exercise during Tradewinds 2018 June 9, 2018, in St. Kitts. This was the culminating event for the exercise's disaster response training. Tradewinds is an exercise designed to conduct joint, combined, and interagency partner-nation capacity building, focused on increasing regional cooperation in complex multinational security operations and humanitarian assistance and disaster response operations. Phase one of the 2018 exercise takes place in St. Kitts, followed by phase two in the Bahamas, and finally phase three in Miami, Fla. (U.S. Army National Guard video by 2nd Lt. Rachel Henson, Mississippi National Guard Joint Force Headquarters)
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