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Our Best: Senior Airman Grace Enriquez
Beyond the pride one carries by simply being a member in today’s all-volunteer U.S. military, there is no greater honor for a service member than accomplishing a challenge in an expeditionary environment, especially when that achievement is normally accomplished by a different branch than the one you serve. This statement holds especially true when attached in support of Combined Joint Task Force–Horn of Africa, a forward-deployed base comprised of airmen, sailors, soldiers and Marines, all sharing … Read entire article »
Filed under: Military, Our Best: Military Women
Ali Oune village gets its picture taken
With their lives filled with hardships and nomadic living, the people of the remote Djiboutian desert village Ali Oune welcome the help of a U.S. Army Civil Affairs team. But on one particular recent visit, CA teams from the 478 and 418 Battalion, accompanied by other U.S. service members, left a particularly lasting impression with the villagers. It was the debut of a new photo project, which enabled the villager’s picture to be taken, printed on … Read entire article »
Filed under: Humanitarian Assistance, Military
Camp Lemonnier volunteers aid Djiboutian schoolchildren
Volunteers from Camp Lemonnier spent time playing sports, making beaded bracelets and necklaces, coloring pictures and handing out shoes to students at the Guelleh Battal school in Djibouti, Feb. 13. The 50 volunteers who went out to this school are known as the Community Assistance Volunteers or CAV; this is the second time they’ve gone to the Guelleh Battal school to spend time with the children. Mahamed Ahmed Abdillahi, Camp Lemonnier’s Community Relations advisor, thinks CAV is … Read entire article »
Filed under: Humanitarian Assistance, Military, War on Terror
Walela Bridge Crosses Cultures as Well as a River
Sailors from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 11 Detachment Horn of Africa from Gulfport, Miss., have completed work on a concrete bridge of major importance to villagers here and continue to work on a second one nearby. The crew of Seabees built the Aromo low-water crossing bridge over a small river, replacing a lighter bridge that washed out during the last seasonal high floods and heavy rainfall. The bridge will once again connect the village of Aromo … Read entire article »
Filed under: Humanitarian Assistance, Military
American Sailors Diving in Lake Victoria
Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa service members located the Ilyshin II 76 aircraft wreckage in Lake Victoria and are conducting diving operations to retrieve information. The contracted Soviet-era IL-76 was carrying tents and water purification units to Mogadishu in support of the African Union Mission in Somalia. All 11 people on-board died after the freighter crashed shortly after takeoff from Entebbe International Airport on March 9. CJTF-HOA personnel are using three types of sonar … Read entire article »
Filed under: Military, Our Allies, War on Terror
The Cleanest City in Kenya
In the United States we take a lot of our lives for granted. Garbage collection is a good example. Having garbage cans for the collection is another. Here is a story about the U.S. military helping one kenyan town try to become the “cleanest city in Kenya”. Soldiers and Sailors deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa helped municipality leaders begin a new garbage disposal program, July 11. A ceremony marked a citywide campaign to clean-up Garissa with the help of donated garbage cans and dumpsters, which Mayor Yousef Mohammed Kuno said will make his city the cleanest in Kenya. Also in attendance were several community leaders and local television, radio and print media. Army Staff Sgt. Kevin Countermine, Officer-in-Charge, Garissa’s 402nd Civil Affairs Battalion, based out of Tonawana, N.Y., … Read entire article »
Filed under: Military, War on Terror
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