Browsing: Uganda

Several weeks ago, Marines with the unit assigned to train friendly forces across African nations agreed to speak with me for a story describing how the Marine Corps’ mission there is evolving and growing as the U.S. withdraws forces from Afghanistan. The resulting story, published here, highlights the mission in Senegal, where a force composed primarily of reconnaissance Marines have mentored commandos on everything from riverine operations to swimming in treacherous water. During our interview, Maj. Thomas Waller, then the head of the team there, described an incident in June in which a Senegalese commando was badly injured while conducting…

Marines training a foreign military are learning skills about fighting in a place they haven’t had much exposure to in the last decade — the jungle. A small team with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit was sent on a unique mission. Eleven Marines left the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group to meet up with a team from Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force in Uganda, according to a Marine Corps news release. The Ugandan troops they are training are preparing for a deployment to Somalia, a failed state that has lacked a central government for more than two decades. Marines with…

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