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Senegalese Army Lt. Omar Sow, surgeon, 5th Infantry Battalion, sutures a patient after a tumor removal surgery at Hopital de la Paix in Ziguinchor, Senegal, Feb. 16, 2018. Vermont Guardsmen work alongside Senegalese medical personnel to obtain real-world experience while providing valuable medical services as part of a Medical Readiness Training Exercise. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Avery Cunningham)

U.S. Army Col. Gino Trevisani, left, surgeon, Medical Detachment, Garrison Support Command, Vermont National Guard, and Senegalese Army Capt. Omar Sow, chief surgeon, remove a thyroid from a patient at the Hopital de la Paix in Ziguinchor, Senegal, Feb. 14, 2018. Vermont Guardsmen work alongside Senegalese medical personnel to obtain real-world experience while providing valuable medical services as part of a Medical Readiness Training Exercise. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Avery Cunningham)

U.S. Army and Senegalese medical personnel provide lifesaving care, during MEDRETE 18-1, for a high-risk newborn at the Hospital De Militaire Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal, Feb. 8, 2018. MEDRETE is a combined effort between the Senegalese government, U.S. Army Africa., and the Vermont National Guard. MEDRETE 18-1 is the first in a series of medical readiness training exercises that U.S. Army Africa is scheduled to facilitate within various countries in Africa, and serves as an opportunity for the partnered militaries to hone and strengthen their general surgery and trauma skills while reinforcing the partnership between the countries. The mutually beneficial exercise brings together Senegalese military and U.S. Army medical professionals to foster cooperation while conducting medical specific tasks.

Senegalese newborn grasps the finger of U.S. Army medical personnel moments after being delivered via cesearean section, during MEDRETE 18-1, at the Hospital De Militaire Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal, Feb. 6, 2018. MEDRETE is a combined effort between the Senegalese government, U.S. Army Africa., and the Vermont National Guard. MEDRETE 18-1 is the first in a series of medical readiness training exercises that U.S. Army Africa is scheduled to facilitate within various countries in Africa, and serves as an opportunity for the partnered militaries to hone and strengthen their general surgery and trauma skills while reinforcing the partnership between the countries. The mutually beneficial exercise brings together Senegalese military and U.S. Army medical professionals to foster cooperation while conducting medical specific tasks.

Twelve U.S. Army Soldiers share tactics and training with a little over 200 Nigerian Army Soldiers from 26th Infantry Battalion in a remote military compound four hours north of the capital in Jaji. The seven- week training includes reacting to an IED, react to an ambush, securing an objective, operations planning, etc. The training's significance cannot be underestimated. These Nigerian Soldiers may eventually use these tactics when forward-deployed to fight against the violent terrorist organization, Boko Haram. Nigerian Advanced infantry training has significant implications outside of on-the-ground tactical maneuvers. This bilateral military-to-military training carries diplomatic weight showcasing the U.S.'s commitment to its African partners and Nigeria's commitment to countering violent extremist organizations.

Sgt. 1st Class George L. Butler, the U.S. Army Africa senior religious affairs noncommissioned officer in charge, speaks during a seminar attended by USARAF and Zambian Defense Force chaplains in Lusaka, Zambia, Jan. 23-25, 2018. During the seminar, the chaplains discussed peacekeeping operations deployment cycle support and the emotional and spiritual stresses of combat on the African continent. (U.S. Army photo/Chaplain (Col.) David Lile)

Warrant Officer Class 1 Wirgan Mwape from the Zambian Defense Force, left, and Chaplain (Col.) David Lile, the U.S. Army Africa command chaplain, right, participate in a suicide prevention training exercise during a seminar attended by USARAF and Zambian Defense Force chaplains in Lusaka, Zambia, Jan. 23-25, 2018. During the seminar, the chaplains discussed peacekeeping operations deployment cycle support and the emotional and spiritual stresses of combat on the African continent. (Courtesy photo)

U.S. Army Africa and Zambian Defense Force chaplains attended a seminar in Lusaka, Zambia, Jan. 23-25, 2018. The event, hosted by Zambian Defense Force Chief of Chaplains Brig. Gen. Vincent Mwenya, was part of the ZDF chaplain corps multi-year developmental plan and a continuation of USARAF and Zambian chaplain collaboration. During the seminar, the chaplains discussed peacekeeping operations deployment cycle support and the emotional and spiritual stresses of combat on the African continent. (Courtesy photo)

Sgt. 1st Class George L. Butler, the U.S. Army Africa senior religious affairs noncommissioned officer in charge, speaks during a seminar attended by USARAF and Zambian Defense Force chaplains in Lusaka, Zambia, Jan. 23-25, 2018. During the seminar, the chaplains discussed peacekeeping operations deployment cycle support and the emotional and spiritual stresses of combat on the African continent. (U.S. Army photo/Chaplain (Col.) David Lile)

During MEDRETE 18-1, U.S. Army and Senegalese medical personnel provide lifesaving care for a high-risk newborn at the Hospital De Militaire Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal, Feb. 8, 2018. MEDRETE 18-1 is a combined effort between members of the Senegalese military, the Vermont National Guard and U.S. Army Africa. Medical readiness training exercises give partnered military members opportunities to improve their medical skills while reinforcing the countries' partnerships. (U.S. Army photos by Sgt. Micah Merrill)

Pfc. Yaa Agyemang, financial clerk 9th Financial Management Sustainment Unit, 1st Infantry Division, Sustainment Brigade, maneuvers through the "confidence climb" on the air assault confidence course during the 2017 Special Troops Battalion, Sustainment Brigade Solider of the Year competition on Nov. 15, 2017 at Ft. Riley, KS. The winner of the event advanced to the division level where he or she would compete for the title of Soldier of the Year for 1st Infantry Division. (Photo by, Spc. Walter Carroll, 1st Infantry Division, Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs)

U.S. Army' Sgt. First Class Chris Campbell and Nigerian Army 2nd Lt. G.Y Chollom discuss the best way to conduct an ambush during a seven-week infantry training course in Jaji.

Sgt. First Class William Dean, SATMO, stresses the importance of readiness while training Nigerian soldiers how to react to an IED.

Twelve Soldiers U.S. Army Soldiers share tactics and training with a little over 200 Nigerian Army Soldiers from 26th Infantry Battalion in a remote military compound four hours north of the capital in Jaji. The training includes reacting to an IED, react to an ambush, securing an objective, operations planning, etc. The training's significance cannot be underestimated. These Nigerian Soldiers may eventually use these tactics when forward-deployed to fight against the violent terrorist organization, Boko Haram. Nigerian Advanced infantry training has significant implications outside of on-the-ground tactical maneuvers. This bilateral military-to-military training carries diplomatic weight showcasing the U.S.'s commitment to its African partners and Nigeria's commitment to countering violent extremist organizations.

U.S. Army Africa's commanding general, Brig. Gen. Eugene LeBoeuf visit's bilateral advanced infantry training between U.S. Army Soldiers from the U.S. Army Security Assistance Training Management Organization and 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division and Nigerian Army Soldiers. The seven-week course will builds Nigeria's combat capacity, strengthens partnership and increases readiness.

U.S. Army Africa's lead security planner for the African Land Forces Summit 2018 sits and contemplates during the final planning event in Abuja, Nigeria.

The Nigerian Army & U.S. Army Africa's African Land Forces Summit 2018 legal planning team sit with NA's lead ALFS planner (right) at the final planning event in Abuja, Nigeria.

U.S. Army Africa Soldiers participate in an early entry command post exercise and a field training exercise to maintain joint task force capabilities on Caserma Ederle in Vicenza, Italy, Jan. 29, 2018. The EECP is the core element for a joint task force; the two-week long exercise ensures each individual knows their role to best suit the mission and support the command. (U.S. Army photo/Spc. Angelica Mendez)

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Casey Moes speaks to U.S. and Ugandan military planners during the main planning event for Justified Accord 2018, Feb. 1, 2018. The JA18 MPE brought partner nation planners together to discuss and shape the second annual Justified Accord exercise designed to enhance and enable East African partner militaries to support ongoing peacekeeping operations.

Planners from Uganda, U.S., the Netherlands and the United Kingdom pose for a group photo during the main planning event for Justified Accord 2018, Feb. 1, 2018. The JA18 MPE brought partner nation planners together to discuss and shape the second annual Justified Accord exercise designed to enhance and enable East African partner militaries to support peacekeeping operations in Somalia.

Soldiers from the U.S. Army Security Assistance Training Management Organization and the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division participated in an advanced infantry training with the Nigerian 26th Infantry Battalion Jan. 15-19 at the Nigerian Army School of Infantry in Jaji, Nigeria. The training’s purpose is increasing lethality, survivability and sustainability capabilities for near-term operations combating Boko Haram and other threats, as well as strengthening a long-term relationship between the forces, leading to increased regional stability when combating national threats in country and abroad. (U.S. Army photos)

The Early Entry Command Post conducts a communications exercise on Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy, Jan. 24, 2018. The COMEX is intended to validate systems, services, connections and integration of enabler components in support of the EECP field training exercise and initial core joint task force requirements in the future. (U.S. Army photo/Spc. Angelica Mendez)

The Early Entry Command Post conducts a communications exercise on Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy, Jan. 24, 2018. The COMEX is intended to validate systems, services, connections and integration of enabler components in support of the EECP field training exercise (FTX) and initial core joint task force requirements in the future. (U.S. Army photo/Spc. Angelica Mendez)

The Early Entry Command Post conducts a communications exercise on Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy, Jan. 24, 2018. The COMEX is intended to validate systems, services, connections and integration of enabler components in support of the EECP field training exercise (FTX) and initial core joint task force requirements in the future. (U.S. Army photo/Spc. Angelica Mendez)

Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division complete a driver’s training class at Contingency Location Garoua, Cameroon, Jan. 21, 2018, as part of Task Force Darby. TF Darby Soldiers are serving in a support role for the Cameroon military’s fight against the violent extremist organization Boko Haram. (U.S. Army photo/Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed)

A U.S. Soldier from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division assigned to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa's East African Response Force maneuvers through a smoke screen during a live-fire exercise in Djibouti, Africa, Dec. 27, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Erin Piazza)

Pfc. Twiford of 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, tries on a gas mask to ensure proper fit at Contingency Location Garoua, Cameroon. The Joint Service General Purpose Mask (JSGPM) is a lightweight, protective mask system incorporating state-of-the-art technology to protect U.S. Joint forces from actual or anticipated threats. There are two variants: The M-50 for ground and shipboard personnel and the M-51 for armored combat vehicle crewman. Soldiers of 1-87 IN are serving in a support role of the Cameroon military’s fight against the violent extremist organization Boko Haram.

Maj. Donald McHone, right, a nurse assigned to the Ohio Army National Guard, collaborates with Col. Silvia Silvestre, a pediatrician with the Angolan armed forces, in the pediatrics clinic in the village of Vale do Paraiso during the PAMBALA 2017 medical exercise Dec. 12, 2017, in Bengo Province, Angola. The engagement offered Ohio National Guard personnel the opportunity to share best practices, strengthen medical treatment processes, establish new relationships with members of the Angolan armed forces, and nurture their existing 11-year partnership with Serbia through the National Guard State Partnership Program. (Ohio National Guard photo/Staff Sgt. Wendy Kuhn)

New York Army National Guard Pfc. Emmanuel Mensah died during a fire in an apartment buiilding in the Bronx, New York City, Dec. 28, 2017. Mensah is believed to have saved four people before he died in the fire, which killed 12 people. (Courtesy photo/New York Army National Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion)

Maj. Andrzej Kujawski, the Task Force Darby commander at CL Garoua, second row left, and Col. Barthelemy Tsilla, the Cameroonian air force commander of base 301, enjoy a laugh at Kujawski's hat placement skills. Tsilla invited Kujawski to participate in a biannual promotion ceremony Jan. 1, 2018, in Garoua, Cameroon. TF Darby Soldiers are serving in a support role for the Cameroonian military’s fight against the violent extremist organization Boko Haram. (U.S. Army photo/Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed)

Sgt. Adrian Cordova, a Task Force Darby mail clerk, and a young resident of the Saare Jabbama youth rehabilitation center for boys in Garoua, Cameroon, carry food donated to the center by American Soldiers and civilians Dec. 23, 2017. Fourteen service members assisted the TF Darby civil affairs team with delivering food, soccer nets and soccer balls. TF Darby Soldiers are serving in a support role for the Cameroonian military’s fight against the violent extremist organization Boko Haram. (U.S. Army photo/ Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed)

Spc. Ryan Worwood of Task Force Darby and 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, plays soccer with the boys of the Saare Jabbama youth rehabilitation center Dec. 23, 2017, in Garoua, Cameroon. Fourteen service members assisted the TF Darby civil affairs team with delivering food, soccer nets and soccer balls. TF Darby Soldiers are serving in a support role for the Cameroonian military’s fight against the violent extremist organization Boko Haram. (U.S. Army photo/Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed)

Fourteen service members assisted the Task Force Darby civil affairs team with delivering food, soccer nets and soccer balls to the Saare Jabbama youth rehabilitation center Dec. 23, 2017, in Garoua, Cameroon. The Soldiers are serving in a support role for the Cameroonian military’s fight against the violent extremist organization Boko Haram. (U.S. Army photo/Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed)

U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Michael A. Goss, center, a platoon leader with 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), discusses squad-level tactics during a situational training lane in Libreville, Gabon, July 27, 2017. The platoon of 101st Soldiers conducted training alongside its Gabonese counterparts to include physical fitness training and a ruck march during exercise Judicious Activation 17-2. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Alexandra Hays)

Spc. Daniel Santos of 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, receives his annual flu shot from 1-87 IN medic Pfc. Danielle Hitchcock at Contingency Location Garoua, Cameroon, as part of Task Force Darby, Dec. 20. TF Darby soldiers are serving in a support role for the Cameroon military’s fight against the violent extremist organization Boko Haram. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Christina J. Turnipseed, Contingency Location Garoua Public Affairs)

Sgt. Adrian Cordova and Sgt. John Marshall, Task Force Darby mail clerks at Contingency Location Garoua, Cameroon, supervise all mail activities. Soldiers here are serving in a support role for the Cameroon military’s fight against the violent extremist organization Boko Haram. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Christina J. Turnipseed, Contingency Location Garoua Public Affairs)

Spc. Oumar Coulibaly of 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (left), and Sgt. Nathan Pelletti of the 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, 11th Theater Tactical Signal Brigade, teach a French class at Contingency Location Garoua, Cameroon as part of Task Force Darby, Dec. 18. TF Darby soldiers are serving in a support role for the Cameroon military’s fight against the violent extremist organization Boko Haram. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Christina J. Turnipseed, Contingency Location Garoua Public Affairs)

U.S. Army Africa's Acting Commanding General, Brig. Gen. Eugene LeBoeuf and Policy Advisor Jeanne Maloney pose for a group photo in Abuja following LeBoeuf's speech to the Nigerian Army's inaugural War College class.

U.S. Army Africa's lead protocol planner for 2018's African Land Forces Summit smiles alongside a Nigerian Army medical planner in Abuja.

Representatives from the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and U.S. Army Africa planners meet to coordinate for Shared Accord 2018 at the Rwanda Military Academy in Gako, Rwanda 27 Nov. -1 Dec. in preparation for the upcoming, annual, multinational, peacekeeping focused command post exercise scheduled to take place in August.