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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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Mogadishu Mile 2024

27th Public Affairs Detachment

Oct. 8, 2024 | 1:56

Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, commemorate Soldiers lost in the Battle of Mogadishu by running 2.14 miles on Fort Drum, New York, Oct. 08, 2024. The event honors those who fought and died during the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia during Operation Restore Hope. The original mile was a route taken by Soldiers from a Black Hawk helicopter crash site to a rally point held by the 10th Mountain Division on National Street on Oct. 4, 1993. The U.N. armored convoy, who came to their rescue didn’t have enough seats to transport the stranded soldiers forcing them to return on foot through Mogadishu, fending off ambushes along the way. (U.S. Army video by Spc. Mason Nichols)