Troops from USA, Tunisia, Senegal to Join African Lion Exercise In Morocco

Troops from the United States of América, Tunisia and Senegal will be joining Morocco when the annual African Lion 21 training exercises take place in June.

The exercise will include about 4,000 U.S. service members, of which 740 Georgia Guard troops, and 5,000 members of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces (FAR), Tunisian Armed Forces, Senegalese Armed Forces, as well as participants from Italy, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, reported the news website 11alive.com .

This year African Lion exercises will include “operating a tactical command post, conducting situational training exercise lanes, conducting field training exercises and conducting indirect fire gunnery table qualification”, a press release of Georgia Army National Guard said.

“The exercise culminates with a combined and joint live-fire exercise,” the release added.

According to the same source, “African Lion offers the opportunity to improve interoperability and cooperation while demonstrating the strong military bond that exists between the participating nations. It is designed to provide training for U.S., Moroccan, Tunisian, Senegalese, and other regionally-based African partnered forces while simultaneously reinforcing lessons learned from past African Lion exercises, and provides a foundation and structure for future military cooperation and engagements”.

The training program will be conducted between June 7-18 in Tantan, Morocco.

The event had been cancelled last year because of the pandemic, the source added .