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Camp Lemonnier is a United States Naval Expeditionary Base, [1] situated next to Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport in Djibouti City, and home to the Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) of the U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM). [2]
It is stationed at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. It flies missions for Africa Command and Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa , supporting varied U.S. objectives in the area. The group began as the World War II 449th Bombardment Group (Heavy) in the spring of 1943.
Although it is operated and used by the French military, [4] it began serving as a temporary base for U.S. military unmanned aircraft in September 2013. [5] [6] The move came after the Djiboutian government expressed concern over a number of recent drone mishaps and accidents at the American Camp Lemonnier Naval Expeditionary Base, which serves as a hub for counterterrorism operations in Yemen ...
Live-fire exercise for marksmanship and weapons handling in March 2003, part of the CJTF-HOA. The mission of the CJTF-HOA is to conduct operations in the Combined Joint Operations Area to enhance partner nation capacity, promote regional security and stability, dissuade conflict, and protect U.S. and coalition interests.
The presence of a Chinese base in close proximity to a US base has created geopolitical tensions. The United States had blocked a Russian base in 2014 [citation needed] and started a US$1 billion upgrade of Camp Lemonnier [citation needed]. US government officials were "blindsided" by Djibouti's approval of a Chinese base just two years later. [4]
Some 1.5 miles north of Chabelley is Chabelley Airport, a desert airstrip until recently exclusively reserved in case of need for French military devices. [1] In September 2013, the airstrip began serving as a temporary hub for U.S. military unmanned aircraft from the nearby Camp Lemonnier Naval Expeditionary Base.
On 1 October 2008 Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti was transferred to United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM). [34] The United States Forces – Iraq or USF-I, was a major subordinate multi-service command during the Iraq War order of battle until it was disestablished in 2011. [citation needed]
Also in that month, U.S. personnel helped those forces plan an operation against illegal checkpoints. [64] On 13 May, a U.S. strike targeted nine al-Shabab militants, three of them were allegedly killed. [65] On 1 June 2016, the Pentagon announced that it had conducted an airstrike that killed a senior Al-Shabaab leader in Somalia on 27 May. [66]