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 Lance Cpl. Diego Berumen, Cpl. Anita Ramos, Cpl. Jaye Townsend, Lance Cpl. Andrew Whistler
20 years later: Remembering the second battle of Fallujah
1st Marine Division
Nov. 7, 2024 | 12:13
A video created in Adobe Premiere Pro 2021 to tell the story of the 20th anniversary of the second battle of Fallujah from the viewpoint of two retired Marines who served with 1st Marine Division at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Nov. 6, 2024. The second battle of Fallujah, also known as Operation Phantom Fury, was a joint military effort carried out Nov. 7-Dec. 23, 2004, by American, British and Iraqi forces meant to eliminate Islamic insurgents in the city. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Atticus Martinez, Cpl. Jaye Townsend, Cpl. Anita Ramos, Lance Cpl. Andrew Whistler, and Lance Cpl. Diego Berumen) (This video contains music from a USMC enterprise licensed asset from Adobe Stock: Dry Ice composed by Victory Flags/FineTune Music/stock.adobe.com, Aurora Borealis composed by Grégoire Lourme/Jamendo/stock.adobe.com, and The Epical composed by Brain Alien/Music Revolution/stock.adobe.com)
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