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 Chris O'Leary
Victory From Above — Spirit video for the 121st Army / Navy football game Dec. 12, 2020 by U.S. Army Operational Test Command's Airborne & Special Operations Test Directorate, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
U.S. Army Operational Test Command
Nov. 18, 2020 | 0:29
The U.S. Army's Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate's team of highly-motivated Soldiers and Army Civilians at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, root for Army Football 2020, for the 121st Army / Navy football game Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. — GO ARMY! BEAT NAVY!

The Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate (ABNSOTD) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina — whose lineage traces directly back to the original Parachute Test Platoon of 1940 — is home to the U.S. Army's only operational test paratroopers, who conduct operational testing for joint airborne contingency and Special Operations Forces in support of the acquisition decision-making process. To provide airdrop certification of all airborne and airdropped equipment, ABNSOTD plans, executes and reports on its operational tests and field experiments, which impacts doctrine, training, organization and materiel.

(Produced by Chris O'Leary, Videographer, Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate, Fort Bragg, North Carolina)
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