Medical readiness exercise kicks off in Ghana during African Lion 2024
9:54 PM5/18/2024
ACCRA, Ghana — A team composed of U.S. Army and Air Force medical professionals from the 86th Medical Squadron, Dental Health Activity - Rheinland Pfalz, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, U.S. Army Medical Command and the State Medical Detachment, North Dakota National Guard commenced a medical readiness exercise (MEDREX) with the Ghana Armed Forces, May 13. The ceremony marked the beginning of activities that will run until May 31, at the 37th Military Hospital in Accra.
Planners from U.S. Africa Command, the Southern European Task Force – Africa, the U.S. National Guard and Reserve and multiple African partners assembled here to begin detailed planning for Exercise African Lion 23, Sept. 26-30.
ND National Guard hosts Ghanaian soldiers during Best Warrior Competition
10:58 AM8/26/2021
Ghanaian soldiers visited North Dakota Aug. 9-16, 2021, to attend the Best Warrior Competition, an annual event in which National Guard Soldiers compete and demonstrate their skills. Ghana and North Dakota are partners in the State Partnership Program, a Department of Defense security cooperation program managed by the National Guard Bureau. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Solomon Abanda)
SETAF-AF and 2nd SFAB strengthen partnership, plan training events with Ghana Armed Forces
12:02 PM4/27/2021
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ronald J. Sturgeon, the 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade training advisor counsel commander, briefs Ghana Armed Forces battalion commanders and staffs on future training plans during a site survey in Tamale, Ghana, at the Northern Command Headquarters March 30, 2021. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Kymberley Jurado)
SETAF-AF and 2nd SFAB strengthen partnership, plan training events with Ghana Armed Forces
12:02 PM4/27/2021
Capt. Mamadou Sylla, a U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa G35 planner, left, leads planning for coordination of future training between U.S. and Ghanaian soldiers at a site survey in Tamale, Ghana, March 31, 2021. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Kymberley Jurado)
SETAF-AF and 2nd SFAB strengthen partnership, plan training events with Ghana Armed Forces
12:02 PM4/27/2021
Capt. Leyla Kosakowski, a 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade environmental science and engineering officer, right, tests facility water sources during a site survey in Tamale, Ghana, March 31, 2021. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Kymberley Jurado)