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 Cpl. Gideon Schippers
Obsidian Iceberg Interview Package
Marine Corps Air Station Yuma
Oct. 2, 2023 | 50:48
U.S. Marines with Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VMX-1) and U.S. Navy Sailors with Helicopter Maritime Strike Weapons School Pacific and Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 35, conduct Exercise OBSIDIAN ICEBERG at Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, California, July 31 to Aug. 1, 2023. OBSIDIAN ICEBERG is an Expeditionary Advanced Base Operation (EABO) exercise designed to develop and validate tactics, techniques, and procedures to effectively conduct customizable nodal amphibious operation. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Gideon M. Schippers)
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