About Justified Accord

Justified Accord is U.S. Africa Command’s largest exercise in East Africa. Led by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF), this multi-national exercise brings together more than 20 countries from 3 continents to increase partner readiness for peacekeeping missions, crisis response and humanitarian assistance.​ 

Southern European Task Force - Africa leads this joint, all-domain exercise in East Africa to enable future operations, maintain strategic access, and build partner capacity to disrupt malign influence, aggression, and activity.

Justified Accord 25 features the first-ever night iteration of air-to-ground integration (AGI) operations where partner countries control Kenyan air assets to provide air support of multinational land forces.

This years iteration also marks the 10-year anniversary of the State Partnership Program between the Massachusetts National Guard and the Kenya Defence Forces. This milestone highlights a decade of sustained military cooperation, training exchanges and capacity-building efforts between the two forces.

Read the Press Release here.

   

 

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Video by Sgt. 1st Class Jeff VanWey
USAID prepares U.S., NATO forces for humanitarian assistance
354th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
Oct. 24, 2023 | 1:40
David Bopp, a Humanitarian Assistance Advisor to the Military with the U.S. Agency for International Development, and U.S. Army Maj. Joseph Bush, a brigade trainer with the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany, discuss the importance of USAID’s integration with U.S. and NATO Ally and partner military forces in order to train militaries on coordinating humanitarian assistance to disaster areas and conflict scenarios. Exercises such as Saber Junction allows USAID representatives to train in a dynamic and realistic training environment alongside the more than 4,000 participants from 16 different countries. Saber Junction is an annual U.S. Army-led exercise which develops and enhances NATO Allies and partners’ interoperability and combat readiness. (U.S. Army Reserve video by Sgt. 1st Class Jeff VanWey)
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