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African Lion

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Exercise AFRICAN LION 18 is a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-sponsored, U.S. Africa Command-scheduled, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa-led, joint and combined exercise conducted in the Kingdom of Morocco, with a “spoke” in Tunisia. The U.S. will deploy approximately 900 U.S. service members to join nearly 400 members of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces, approximately 250 Tunisian armed forces, and members of the Federal Republic of Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Great Britain and Greek armed forces.

 

 

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ARCTIC EDGE 2024: U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Kelliher attends Distinguished Visitor’s Day
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Sydney Feltenstein, a combat medic with 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Airborne, explains the operations within a medical tent to a joint-service delegation during Distinguished Visitor’s (DV) Day as part of exercise Arctic Edge 2024 (AE24) at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 4, 2024. The delegation visited and toured Camp Mad Bull, a site conducting several medical experiments in an arctic environment utilizing freeze dried plasma, portable oxygen generators, hypothermia prevention devices, core temperature monitors and more. AE24 DV Day fostered dynamic discussions among military, government, and academic leaders on arctic homeland defense, later featuring site visits, demonstrations, and presentations. Arctic Edge 2024 is a U.S. Northern Command-led homeland defense exercise demonstrating the U.S. military’s capabilities in extreme cold weather, joint force readiness, and U.S. military commitment to mutual strategic security interests in the arctic region. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Madisyn Paschal)

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ARTICLES

Hometown Heroes of African Lion 2018: Sgt. David Butler
Sgt. David J. Butler is a Tavares, Florida, native and Reserve Marine with 4th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, participating in exercise African...

Hometown Heroes of African Lion 2018: Cpl. Dalen Reed
Cpl. Dalen P. Reed is a Lawrence, Kansas, native and Reserve Marine with Detachment 1 Supply Company, Combat Logistics Battalion-453, participating in Exercise African Lion 2018 in Morocco, April...