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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Air Force Tech Report: Chem Light Replacement
Defense Media Activity - Air Force
Jan. 31, 2019 | 2:25
Chemical illumination has been a useful tool for military operations for years in the form of chem lights or glow sticks. However, glow sticks could be a hindrance to carry around. The Air Force Research Lab has exponentially lightened the load to allow chemical illumination in the form of a crayon, making light accessible, transferable, and useful over and over again.

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Glowing Crayons at AFRL - Wright-Patterson AFB
https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Video/videoid/592286/
Dr. Larry Brott, a Materials Engineer within the Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is ...

AFRL partners with entrepreneurs to light the way for the warfighter
https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1455353/afrl-partners-with-entrepreneurs-to-light-the-way-for-the-warfighter/
But these handy devices are also useful in the battlefield, and AFRL researchers ... These materials can be used in glow stick “crayons” to write ...
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