USAFRICOM response force keeps skills sharp
U.S. Africa Command, with partners, counters transnational threats and malign actors, strengthens security forces, and responds to crises in order to advance U.S. national interests and promote regional security, stability, and prosperity.
(Photo Credit : by Semaj Johnson U.S. Army )
Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade's 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, conduct the North and West Africa Response Force Mission Readiness Exercise at Aviano Airbase, Italy, Feb. 19, 2022.
Partnership-strengthening, readiness-building, joint all-domain, multi-national, and multi-functional
(Photo Credit : by Semaj Johnson U.S. Army )
Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade's 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment.
VICENZA, Italy -- Members of the U.S. Africa Command’s North and West Africa Response Force conducted a series of crisis response training exercises in multiple locations throughout Italy, Feb. 16-20.
Routine training and exercises ensure the joint team's capability to marshal as well deploy with a scalable force package in support of U.S. persons, facilities and interests in Africa.
The training included water survival drills in Vicenza; air load and transit operations in Aviano and in Sicily with Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps air assets.
Soldiers, Airmen, and Marines of the NARF routinely conduct crisis and contingency response exercises both in Europe and Africa, improving joint operational capability across a variety of mission sets.
U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa supports competition, provides command and control in the land domain, strengthens partnerships, sets the theater, and conducts security force assistance in order to achieve U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Army Campaign Plan objectives.
(Photo Credit Staff Sgt. John Yountz & Spc. Giovanny Lopez)
Sky Soldiers from 1st Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry Regiment conducting a raid on a village after air assaulting from MV-22 Ospreys with the help of 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.
Throughout the year, the naval component for U.S. Africa Command, U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa, coordinated dozens of port visits for the USS Hershel “Woody” Williams and her crew including a circumnavigation of Africa during the summer and fall to further maritime partnerships to counter illicit activity in the worlds’ seas.
In addition to supporting U.S. Africa Command response forces, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa continued training alongside our African partners, including a long-standing Humanitarian Mine Action program with Royal Moroccan Armed Forces.
Personnel with Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa spent training alongside Djiboutian and French partners, supporting a wide array of U.S. Africa Command activities, and hosting outreach events in local communities to implement Women, Peace & Security efforts and build relationships around CJTF-HOA’s headquarters at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti.
U.S. Army Southern European Task Force Africa executed African Lion, U.S. Africa Command’s premier joint annual exercise held in Morocco, Tunisia and Senegal. Additionally the task force supported crisis-response training events, planned additional multinational exercises, and trained and engaged with a multitude of partners in Africa.