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Justified Accord is U.S. Africa Command’s largest annual exercise in East Africa, led by the U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF). This multinational exercise unites more than 20 countries from three continents to enhance partner readiness for peacekeeping missions, crisis response, and humanitarian assistance. It serves as a joint, all-domain training event aimed at enabling future operations, maintaining strategic access, and building partner capacity to counter malign influence and aggression.

   

 

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Video by Spc. Joshua Syberg
Hamel
120th Public Affairs Detachment
Aug. 14, 2018 | 2:39
Early on the morning of July 4, 1918, during World War One, a line of infantrymen composed of battle-hardened Australian and fresh American troops rose up from the security of their trenches and fighting positions to attack German forces defending the lightly wooded farmland surrounding Le Hamel, a quiet village nestled in the rural Somme valley of northern France. It was the first time that Allied Australian and American forces had attacked together in combat, but it would not be the last.
One hundred years later Australian and American troops are still standing shoulder-to-shoulder, this time in Shoalwater Bay Training Area in Queensland, Australia, wrapping up a multi-national training exercise aptly named after the now-famous Battle of Hamel. Three soldiers of the Indiana National Guard explain their experience.
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