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About African Lion

African Lion 25 is U.S. Africa Command's largest, premier, annual exercise, hosted across Morocco, Ghana, Senegal and Tunisia. This joint, all-domain, multi-component, and multinational exercise includes more than 10,000 participants from more than twenty nations, including contingents from NATO. African Lion aims to strengthen interoperability among participants and build readiness to respond to crises and contingencies in Africa and around the world.

The exercise will include a command post exercise, field training exercises, a live-fire demonstration, and humanitarian civic assistance program events. Additionally, humanitarian civic assistance missions will feature a combination of medical, dental and veterinary assistance and exchanges across Morocco, Ghana and Senegal.

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Video by Kyle Davis

The Big Picture : The Reds Launch Their Expected Spring Offensive

Army University Press

Oct. 14, 2022 | 29:31

111.TV.178 – This episode of The Big Picture follows UN troops between April and May 1951. The film details the Chinese communist spring offensive and the subsequent counterattacks by UN forces. The episode also highlights the firsthand accounts of Captain Molly Younger, a member of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH), and Sergeant Mike Preputnick, a combat medic. Both of their stories recount the importance and success of quick medical treatment of troops. The episode does not shy away from showing the numerous medical challenges faced by UN forces in the Korean theater.