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Areas of military interest to the United States in Africa include the Sahara/Sahel region, [9] over which Joint Task Force Aztec Silence is conducting anti-terrorist operations (Operation Enduring Freedom - Trans Sahara), Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, where Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa is located (overseeing Operation Enduring ...
Camp Lemonnier is the largest U.S. base in Africa with more than 4,000 military personnel. [101] Kenya: Camp Simba: Second largest U.S. base in Africa. Over 600 U.S. military personnel work at Camp Simba. [102] Seychelles: United States drone base in Seychelles: Surveillance of Al-Shabaab over Somalia. Somalia: Baledogle Airfield
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 the only permanent U.S. military base in Africa.
The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). [2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. [3]
Darmstadt: Historical Division, United States Army Europe. Hackworth, David; Sherman, Julie (1989). About face: The odyssey of an American warrior. New York: Touchstone. ISBN 0-671-69534-7.. USAREUR (4 April 2014). "United States Army Europe: History". Archived from the original on 4 April 2014
Redesignated: from United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe to United States Air Forces in Europe on 7 August 1945 [1] Was a specified command of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 22 January 1951 – 1 July 1956 Redesignated: United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa on 20 April 2012
Operation Torch and the US Navy base ports. US Naval Bases in North Africa were sea ports and air base used in North Africa during World War II by the United States Navy.The ports and air bases supplied the troops of the Allies armies in the flight against German and Italian forces in the North African campaign and Western Desert campaign.
Significant equipment storage for a MEB is located in northern Norway under the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway, [4] and administered in the contiguous United States by Blount Island Command. The Norwegian Government has integrated the presence of a MEB into its defense planning.