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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. Angela Ohearn

Deployed “Best Warriors” Compete in Blackjack Challenge

U.S. Army Central

April 3, 2020 | 3:09

Deployed Soldiers with the 1st Theater Sustainment Command competed in a Best Warrior Competition dubbed the "Blackjack Challenge” from Mar. 10-13, 2020 in the U.S. Central Command Region. U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Sara Brown, the operations’ senior noncommissioned officer of the 1st TSC and Nowata, Oklahoma native, outlines the intent of the event: to identify the best noncommissioned officer and junior enlisted Soldier in the 1st TSC to send to the U.S. Army Central's Best Warrior Competition scheduled later this year. U.S. Army Sgt. Christopher Giner, the Blackjack Challenge NCO winner with the Special Troops Battalion, 1st Armored Division Sustainment Brigade, and U.S. Army Pvt. Kaleb Shriver, competitor and paralegal specialist with the 1st TSC, share their unique experiences and perspectives in this three-minute video feature story. (U.S. Army video by Sgt. Angela O'Hearn)

Music by Scott Buckley, under CC BY 4.0.