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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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Totem pole honors Alaska veterans: Klawock carver John Rowan

Alaska National Guard

Aug. 28, 2018 | 2:59

U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Klawock carver John Rowan worked with Klawock elder Aaron Isaacs, a former Alaska Army Guardsman and U.S. Army 82nd Airborne paratrooper and current member of the Alaska State Defense Force, to come up with the design of a totem pole that would honor Alaska’s veterans. The Veterans Totem Pole was placed in Veterans Totem Park in in the city of Klawock on Prince of Wales Island, Aug. 18, 2018. Rowan spent two months carving the totem pole from a donated Western Red Cedar. The totem displays service branches and Prisoners of War-Missing In Action insignias, a 1960s-era U.S. Army Soldier, ancient warrior holding a double-headed dagger, an eagle and raven at the top, and a set of identification tags that veterans can pin unit crests and insignia to in the bottom of the totem pole.