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 Brigida Sanchez
Rapid Wetland Assessment | Wet Pine Flatwood
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center
Aug. 19, 2025 | 3:44
The ERDC Wetlands Team designs precision-driven rapid assessment tools tailored to the unique ecological and regulatory needs of State, Federal, and local stakeholders. In this featured collaboration, Dr. Patrick Smith, Supervisory Biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, joins forces with Catherine Breaux, Senior Fish and Wildlife Biologist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to address the critical demand for a Wet Pine Flatwood rapid assessment protocol. Research Biologist Jaybus Price of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Wetlands Team outlines the assessment methodology, emphasizing the strategic use of indicator species to inform and guide land management decisions. (U.S. Army Video by Brigida I. Sanchez)
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