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 Staff Sgt. Jake SeaWolf
BROLL: 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Utah National Guard and Commandos Marines, Moroccan Royal Armed Forces train with various machine guns and long range rifles
U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa
June 11, 2024 | 0:41
19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Utah National Guard, and Moroccan Royal Armed Forces train with various machine guns and marksmanship rifles during exercise African Lion 2024 (AL24), Tifnet training base, Tifnit, Morocco, May 23, 2024. AL24 marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Africa Command’s premier joint exercise led by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF), running from April 19 to May 31 across Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia, with over 8,100 participants from 27 nations and NATO contingents.

Shot List (SS:FF) S=Seconds F=Frames
(03:09) MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT: 2 soldiers shooting machine gun
(06:24) MACRO SHOT: Clearing Feed Tray on 240 Bravo machine gun
(18:19) MACRO SHOT: Loading 240 Bravo with belt
(21:17) MACRO SHOT: belt being fed through machine gun
(35:05) MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT: rollover drill (dead gunner)
(36:18) MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT: patches on soldier
(38:20) MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT: long gun being shot
(40:24) MACRO SHOT: Trigger finger
(46:14) MEDIUM SHOT: rollover drill from behind
(50:09) MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT: Shooting over shot (camera over the shoulder)
(51:19) MEDIUM WIDE SHOT: Moroccan Soldiers running with machine gun
(54:18) MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT: Shooting machine gun
(55:09) MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT: US Soldier shooting long gun
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