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 Cpl. Juan A. Soto-Delgado, Sgt. Sylvia Tapia
Legacy in the skies: Two generations of Marines fly together
26th Marine Expeditionary Unit
Feb. 6, 2018 | 1:45
U.S. Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sgt. James Mocarski, an aircraft maintenance chief with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 264, Marine Aircraft Group 26, and his son, Sgt. Andrew Mocarski, a crew chief with VMM-162 (REIN), 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), flew together on a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter at Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Jan. 30, 2018. The father and son team, known by their Marines as Big Mo and Little Mo, went on their first and last flight together before Master Gunnery Sgt. Mocarski retires after 30 years of service and Sgt. Mocarski deploys with the 26th MEU. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Juan A. Soto-Delgado and Sgt. Sylvia L. Tapia)
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