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. Kyle McNan
Staff Sgt. Jennifer Poole and Staff Sgt. Shakelia Woods
Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade
Dec. 23, 2016 | 0:12
Staff Sgt. Jennifer Poole from Wendell, North Carolina, and Staff Sgt. Shakelia Woods from Oceanside, California, both with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force, send holiday greetings to their families back home while forward deployed in the Middle East.
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