Story by Staff Sgt. Brandon Ames | U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa | 05.01.2018
13 Soldiers of United States Army 3rd Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division and soldiers of the Senegalese Army completed a three-week training course that began on April 30, 2018. The intent of the course was to better prepare the 30 Senegalese instructors for leading their upcoming Advanced Infantry Training, which begins this week. In order for the teaching skills and......
Story by Staff Sgt. Brandon Ames | U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa | 05.01.2018
Four combat tours, eight duty stations and one adventurous career of 22 years with the United States Army is the story of Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Garland....
Story by Maj. Michael Weisman | U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa | 08.02.2016
DAKAR, Senegal—Approximately 4,000 miles and an ocean away from the Green Mountains, a sergeant from Vermont provides advice and directions through a spotting scope to a Senegalese soldier behind a rifle at a range in Thies, Senegal. Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Fryburg, an instructor with the Vermont Army National Guard’s Regional Training Institute, is part of a two-man team from his unit......
Story by 1st Lt. Eric Abrams | U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa | 06.30.2016
Thies, Senegal - Senegal’s Compagnie Fusilier de Marin Commando surpassed new training milestones during a three-week exercise with Marines from Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response–Africa in Thies, Senegal, July 6-24....
Story by Staff Sgt. Bryan Peterson | U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa | 03.21.2016
Senegalese soldiers completed a month-long training exercise with U.S. Marines, March 18, at a military training facility in Thies, Senegal. U.S. Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa, trained their counterparts with Senegal’s Compagnie Fusilier de Marin Commando, or COFUMACO, in infantry tactics, making this the 10th training engagement the......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Chlosta | 7th Mission Support Command | 06.30.2014
Soldiers from the 7th Civil Support Command’s, 1172nd Movement Control Team provided logistical and movement control support to the U.S. Army Africa-led Western Accord 14, a combined joint military partnership command post and field training peace operation exercise June 16-30 in Thies and the capital city of Dakar, Senegal....
Story by Cpl. Ryan Joyner | U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa | 12.06.2013
Marines and sailors with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Africa 13 recently completed the first week of training as part of the fourth iteration of maritime assistance force engagements this year with the Companie de Fusilier Marine Commandos in Thiès, Senegal....
Story by Sgt. Tatum Vayavananda | U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa | 07.12.2012
Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment are spending the next couple of weeks with joint forces from various West African nations to train and exchange their shared experiences of non-lethal weapons and crowd-control tactics as part of Exercise Western Accord 2012, July 11....
