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 Sgt. William White
101st Airborne Division Soldiers in Art Greenspon's Vietnam photo interviewed for first time since image was taken 49 years ago
2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs
Aug. 31, 2017 | 16:51
Dallas Brown, a Vietnam War veteran who served with Company A, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade (Separate), 101st Airborne Division speaks about his experiences during the Vietnam War, Aug 8, 2017, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Brown, along with Tim Winterburg , Watson Baldwin, and Jay Cope, is one of the Soldiers pictured in the famous Vietnam War photograph “Help from Above” by Art Greenspon, considered one of the best images of the conflict. When the photo was taken, Brown was laying on the ground grimacing in pain from an injury sustained during a firefight with the NVA. (U.S Army Video by Sgt. William White)
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