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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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Colorado National Guard Adjutant General Interview at Immediate Response 16

U.S. Army Europe and Africa

Sept. 21, 2016 | 4:49

Colorado National Guard Adjutant General, Mike Edwards, visited soldiers from the 220th Military Police Company, Colorado National Guard at exercise Immediate Response in Slovenia.

Immediate Response 16 is a multinational, brigade-level command post exercise utilizing computer-assisted simulations and field training exercises spanning two countries, Croatia and Slovenia. The exercises and simulations are built upon a decisive action based scenario and are designed to enhance regional stability, strengthen Allied and partner nation capacity, and improve interoperability among partner nations. The exercise will occur Sept. 9-23, 2016, and will include more than 1,900 Soldiers and security forces from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Immediate Response 16 supports the goal of a “Strong Europe” in that militaries and security forces are trained and ready to combine forces to ensure unified security across Allied and partner nations. Immediate Response is a preplanned exercise that has occurred annually for the past six years.