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 Lance Cpl. Serine Farahi
B-Roll: Joint Task Force - Leeward Islands unloads supplies for the residents of Dominica
U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South
Oct. 3, 2017 | 1:06
U.S. service members with Joint Task Force - Leeward Islands unload supplies with the help of foreign service members at Douglas-Charles Airport in Melville Hall, Dominica, Sept. 26, 2017. At the request of the U.S. Agency for International Development, JTF-LI has deployed aircraft and service members to assist Dominica after the devastation of Hurricane Maria. The task force is a U.S. military unit composed of Marines, Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen, and represents U.S. Southern Command’s primary response to the hurricanes that have affected the area.(U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Serine Farahi)
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