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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31st MEU Conducts Combat Marksmanship Program Training
31st Marine Expeditionary Unit
March 3, 2025 | 1:21
U.S. Marines with Golf Battery 2/4 and Marines with 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct live fire testing during a combat marksmanship program training on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 21, 2025. This training was conducted to enable Marines to sustain their skills with various weapon systems and improve their lethality. The 31st MEU, the Marine Corps’ only continuously forward deployed MEU, provides a flexible and lethal force, ready to perform a wide range of military operations as the premiere crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Gerardo Mendez)
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