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African Lion

This page archives news and photos from Exercise African Lion in 2017. It highlights deployments and training, showcasing MARFORRES operational readiness and global engagement.

 

 

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Reserve Marine instructs Caribbean veterans in Barbados

U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Mercer, a military policeman from Military Police Company B, Headquarters and Service Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, and an Allentown, Pa. native, leads students during a crowd control practice at Barbados Defence Force Base Paragon, Christ Church, Barbados, June 18, 2012, for Exercise Tradewinds 2012. Tradewinds is a multinational, interagency exercise designed to develop and sustain relationships that improve the capacity of U.S., Canadian and 15 Caribbean partner nations security forces to counter transnational crime and provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
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Photo by: Cpl. Nana Dannsaappiah |  VIRIN: 120618-M-OS573-005.JPG
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Marines Manage Tactical Water Purification System during African Lion 2017
U.S. Marines with Maintenance Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 451, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, installed a Tactical Water Purification System during exercise African Lion 17 at Cap...

U.S. forces participate in multi-nation partner exercise African Lion 17
Approximately 2,800 U.S. service members and members from the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces, Tunisian Armed Forces and Spanish La Infantería de Marina participated in the multi-national exercise African...