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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Spartans Paratroopers Fire Carl Gustaf Rifle
2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division Public Affairs
Sept. 16, 2021 | 1:32
Spartan Paratroopers from Dog Company, 3-509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, “Spartan Brigade,” fired the M3E1 Multi-Role Anti-Armor Anti-Personnel Weapons System (MAAWS), also known as the Carl Gustaf Recoilless Rifle, during live fire training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, September 15, 2021. The Spartan Brigade is the only airborne infantry brigade combat team in the Arctic and Pacific theaters, providing the combatant commander with the unique capability to project an expeditionary force by air.
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