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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 Spc. Gavin Hardy

B-Roll: New Hampshire National Guard joins Morocco, conducts sling load training at African Lion 2025

U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa

May 21, 2025 | 1:59

U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 744th Forward Support Company, 3rd Battalion, 197th Field Artillery Regiment, New Hampshire Army National Guard, conduct a sling load training exercise utilizing a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to transport a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) together with the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces at African Lion 2025 (AL25) in Tan Tan, Morocco, May 17, 2025. Sling load training improves logistical agility, enhances interoperability with allied forces, and ensures rapid and efficient transport of critical supplies, strengthening readiness for future multinational operations. AL25, the largest annual military exercise in Africa, brings together over 50 nations, including seven NATO allies and 10,000 troops to conduct realistic, dynamic and collaborative training in an austere environment that intersects multiple geographic and functional combatant commands. Led by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF) on behalf of the U.S. Africa Command, AL25 takes place from April 14 to May 23, 2025, across Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, and Tunisia. This large-scale exercise will enhance our ability to work together in complex, multi-domain operations—preparing forces to deploy, fight and win (U.S. Army Reserve video by Spc. Gavin Hardy).

00:00:00) LONG SHOT: Chinook flies across the screen
(00;00;05;00) MEDIUM SHOT: Chinook landing on helipad
(00;00;12;00) MEDIUM SHOT: U.S. Army and FAR talking
(00;00;18;00) CLOSE SHOT: FAR unit patch
(00;00;23;00) CLOSE SHOT: FAR symbol
(00;00;28;00) LONG SHOT: Attaching rope to HIMARS ammo
(00;00;34;27) MEDIUM SHOT: FAR putting on flick
(00;00;39;27) CLOSE SHOT: Army 744th FSC, 3-197th Field Artillery Regiment unit patch
(00;00;44;27) MEDIUM SHOT: Running to the helipad
(00;00;50;27) MEDIUM SHOT: getting set
(00;00;56;27) MEDIUM SHOT: Chinook heading towards the HIMARS ammo
(00;01;03;29) MEDIUM SHOT: securing the load
(00;01;08;29) MEDIUM SHOT: Attaching the rope left side
(00;01;13;29) MEDIUM SHOT: Attaching the rope right side
(00;01;18;29) MEDIUM SHOT: leaving helipad
(00;01;25;28) LONG SHOT: Chinook taking load
(00;01;30;27) LONG SHOT: Chinook bringing back the load
(00;01;36;10) LONG SHOT: Chinook landing
(00;01;42;10) CLOSE SHOT: FAR signing HIMARS ammo
(00;01;47;10) LONG SHOT: Chinook leaving
(00;01;52;10) LONG SHOT: Chinook flying overhead
(00;01;58;10) MEDIUM SHOT: Group hug