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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2-104th Aviation Battalion participate in a gunnery exercise at MCOLF Atlantic and BT-11
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point
July 14, 2025 | 1:45
U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion, 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, utilize Marine Corps Outlying Landing Field Atlantic and Bombing Target 11 to conduct a live-fire door gunner exercise with U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and U.S. Army CH-47F Chinook helicopters at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, June 23, 2025. MCOLF Atlantic and BT-11, two of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point’s many training areas provide critical training infrastructure that enables Department of Defense units to maintain combat readiness and support an expeditionary posture. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Michail Stankosky)
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