SETAF-Africa conducts large-scale planning for African Lion 21

Staff Sgt. Rachelle Dutton, the U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa force health protection NCO, left, and Maj. Stephen Boughton, a SETAF-Africa G4 fusion logistics planner, participate in large-scale virtual planning meetings for exercise African Lion 2021. The U.S. military, along with 21 multinational partners, is adapting with COVID-19 mitigation practices to safely plan a complex multinational, joint, all-domain exercise culminating in combined live-fire exercises occurring in multiple countries across the combined joint operations area. (U.S. Army photo by Christopher House)



By SETAF-Africa Public Affairs SETAF-Africa Mar 02, 2021
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