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 Tech. Sgt. Scott Olguin
USAFWS JTAC Patching Ceremony (B-Roll Stringer)
Nellis Air Force Base
July 6, 2015 | 3:35
The United States Air Force Weapons School graduated one hundred and twenty students from class 15-A. Among them, five joint terminal attack controllers from the school’s Weapons Instructor Course. They are the first enlisted members authorized to wear the coveted weapons school patch. This stringer contains b-roll of the JTAC graduates past and present receiving their USAFWS Graduate Patch during the Weapon Instructor Course “Patching Ceremony” on June 27th. Interviews were recorded at the Graduation Ceremony two days later. There are sound bites from MSgt Jared Pietris, Combat Controller, MSgt Michael Bickel , TACP, SSgt Justin Geiger, TACP, Capt. Dennis Seay, JTAC Weapon Instructor Course Flight Commander, MSgt Michael Brait, Combat Controller and Col Michael Drowley, USAF Weapons School Commandant. Produced by A1C Mychal Fox and TSgt Scott Olguin.

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