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ALFS 2018: Final Planning Event
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.
Early entry command post conducts communication capability exercise
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)
Photo by: Maj. Jeremy Passut
Exercise Justified Accord 2018 plan takes shape in Uganda
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.
Photo by: Capt. Jason Welch, JINJA, UGANDA
Exercise Justified Accord 2018 plan takes shape in Uganda
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.
Photo by: Capt. Jason Welch, JINJA, UGANDA
US, Nigerian soldiers participate in advanced infantry training
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)
Early entry command post conducts communication capability exercise
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)
Photo by: Maj. Jeremy Passut
Early entry command post conducts communication capability exercise
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)
Photo by: Maj. Jeremy Passut
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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)
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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)
Photo by: Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed
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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)
Photo by: Senior Airman Erin Piazza
1-87 IN Avoids Gas
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.
Photo by: Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed
Ohio National Guard members join Serbian, Angolan armed forces for historic trilateral exercise PAMBALA 2017
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)
Photo by: Staff Sgt. Wendy Kuhn
NY National Guard Soldier dies rescuing residents from apartment fire
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)
Photo by: New York National Guard
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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)
Photo by: Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed
Task Force Darby team visits, delivers donations to youth rehabilitation center
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)
Photo by: Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed
Task Force Darby team visits, delivers donations to youth rehabilitation center
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)
Photo by: Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed
Task Force Darby team visits, delivers donations to youth rehabilitation center
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)
Photo by: Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed
Access to Africa: setting the theater for long-term strategic success
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)
Photo by: Col. H. Clint Kirk IV and Lt. Col. Armando Hernandez, Vicenza, Italy
Flu Shots for Warriors in Cameroon
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)
Photo by: Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed
Holiday Mail Arrives for Warriors in Cameroon
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)
Photo by: Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed
Servicemembers learn to Parlez Francais in Garoua, Cameroon
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)
Photo by: Staff Sgt. Christina Turnipseed, Garoua, Cameroon
Acting CG in Nigeria
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.
African Land Forces Summit MPE
U.S. Army Africa's lead protocol planner for 2018's African Land Forces Summit smiles alongside a Nigerian Army medical planner in Abuja.
Photo by: Capt. James Sheehan
Rwanda Defence Force hosts the U.S., Netherlands for Peacekeeping Exercise Planning
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.
Photo by: Ms. Kymana Jurado, Gako, Rwanda
Rwanda Defence Force hosts the U.S., Netherlands for Peacekeeping Exercise Planning
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.
Photo by: Ms. Kymana Jurado, Gako, Rwanda
Nigeria & US Soldiers Survey demonstration site
U.S. Army Africa lead planner for communications at the upcoming African Land Forces Summit 2018 speaks to his Nigerian Army counterpart during a site survey for the summit's demonstration site. ALFS is a weeklong seminar bringing together land force chiefs from across Africa for candid dialog to discuss and develop cooperative solutions and improve trans regional security and stability.
Photo by: Capt. James Sheehan, Abuja, Nigeria
ALFS 2018 MPE
Nigerian Army and U.S. Army Africa African Land Forces Summit lead planners' Brig. Gen. D.H. Ali-Keffi and Lt. Col. Hector Montemayor meet in Abuja with respective teams to discuss the upcoming conference scheduled for Spring 2018.
ALFS 2018 MPE
Nigerian Army and U.S. Army Africa African Land Forces Summit lead planners' Brig. Gen. D.H. Ali-Keffi and Lt. Col. Hector Montemayor meet in Abuja with respective teams to discuss the upcoming conference scheduled for Spring 2018.
African Land Forces Summit MPE
Nigerian Army and U.S. Army Africa African Land Forces Summit lead planners' Brig. Gen. D.H. Ali-Keffi and Lt. Col. Hector Montemayor meet in Abuja with respective teams to discuss the upcoming conference scheduled for Spring 2018.
Happy Thanksgiving from Garoua, Cameroon
1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Soldiers from Task Force Darby supporting operations at Contingency Location Garoua, Cameroon, share their Thanksgiving Dinner with their Cameroonian hosts.
The annual tradition was an opportunity to share American culture with soldiers and airmen of the Cameroonian Defense Force. The Soldiers from the U.S. Army Fort Drum & 10th Mountain Division, are in Cameroon to support Cameroon military efforts to combat regional violent extremism from Boko Haram ad ISIS West Africa.
Photo by: , Garoua, Cameroon
Diffa Logistics Mission
US and Niger Soldiers pose for a group photo during a 5-week logistics mission in Niamey, Niger.
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Spc. Mathew Manuel, right, an explosive ordnance disposal technician from the 764th Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) out of Fort Carson, Colo., leads an after-action review with Cameroonian Armed Forces soldiers after an explosive device removal practical exercise with help from a translator during Exercise Counter Improvised Explosive Device-Defeat Phase I in Douala, Cameroon, November 14, 2017. The threat of IED contact is relevant to Cameroonian troops, who deploy to the Lake Chad Basin to fight Boko Haram and other terrorist organizations. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Alexandra Hays, 79th Theater Sustainment Command)
Photo by: Sgt. 1st Class Alexandra Hays
Unified Focus 2018 Main Planning Event
U.S. & Cameroonian troops joined forces with West African & European leaders to begin planning the combined, joint exercise Unified Focus in Douala, Cameroon.
Unified Focus 2018 Main Planning Event
U.S. & Cameroonian troops joined forces with West African & European leaders to begin planning the combined, joint exercise Unified Focus in Douala, Cameroon.
Unified Focus 2018 Main Planning Event
U.S. & Cameroonian troops joined forces with West African & European leaders to begin planning the combined, joint exercise Unified Focus in Douala, Cameroon.
Civil Affairs Team 8324 works with Gabonese military and park rangers
Members of the Gabonese Armed Forces and U.S. Army Civil Affairs Team (CAT) 8324, conduct a map reconnaissance and discuss counter illicit trafficking operations, Libreville, Gabon, Sept. 25. The seminar brought Gabonese military and park rangers together with U.S. Civil Affairs personnel to develop methods to build resiliency within vulnerable populations, fostering regional stability and utilizing a whole of government approach to respond to humanitarian and disaster response missions.
Photo by: , Libreville, Gabon
Explosive Ordnance Disposal - Nigeria
Sgt. Michael Smith of the 723rd Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) shares methods to counter improvised explosive devices to Armed Forces Nigeria.
Kentucky National Guard State Partnership in Djibouti
Soldiers from the 1st Battalion 149th Infantry meet with members of the Gendarmerie and receive a tour of the Gendarmerie Training Facility in Djibouti to support the State Partnership Program between the Kentucky National Guard and the nation of Djibouti Sept. 26, 2017. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Sarah Gossett)
Photo by: Spc. Sarah Gossett, Kentucky
ALFS 2018 IPE
African Land Forces Summit 2018 lead planner, Lt. Col. Hector Montemayor (left) and Lt. Col. Husaini Toro, 176th Guards Battalion commander walk together at the proposed site for the summit’s military demonstration in Abuja. ALFS is a weeklong seminar designed to give African land force’s chiefs an opportunity to discuss and develop solutions for improving security and stability in their home country.
Photo by: Capt. James Sheehan
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