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. Levi Voss
Summer Fury 21: Sonobouy Operations
3rd Marine Aircraft Wing
July 26, 2021 | 0:36
U.S. Marines from Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 267, and HMLA-369, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), receive fuel and sonobuoys at a forward arming and refueling point during sonobuoy operations during the Advanced Naval Basing Operations of Summer Fury 21 on San Clemente Island, California, July 19, 2021. 3rd MAW focuses on rapidly establishing forward operating bases across a broad area from which they can conduct various missions and then disestablishing them just as quickly, relocating and repeating the process elsewhere; to include anti-submarine warfare. Summer Fury is an exercise conducted by 3rd MAW in order to maintain and build capability, strength, and trust within its units to generate the readiness and lethality needed to deter and defeat adversaries during combat operations as the U.S. Marine Corps refines tactics and equipment in accordance with Force Design 2030. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Levi Voss)
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