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 Lance Cpl. Joseph Cooper, Lance Cpl. Dylon Grasso, Cpl. Oneg Plisner, Lance Cpl. Brian Stippey
Chemical Biological Incident Response Force
Defense Media Activity - Marines
March 2, 2023 | 4:03
Members of the search fire and rescue team, assigned to the Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force train during exercise Sudden Response 23 at Fort Hood, Texas Dec. 11, 2022. Military units comprising the Defense CBRN Response Force (DCRF) participated in Exercise Sudden Response on 23 Dec. 7-13 in Camp Mabry, Austin, and Fort Hood, Texas. Teams from Task Force (TF) Aviation, TF Logistics, TF Medical, and TF Operations, rehearsed force and equipment employment, life-saving operations, and web-based collaborative tools to ensure their ability to execute the Defense Support of Civil Authority (DSCA) mission. The DCRF is comprised of up to 5,200 personnel from military units located throughout the nation who come together to help fellow Americans in the event of a catastrophic crisis response. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Cpl. Oneg Plisner)
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