Medical Readiness Exercises provide a real-world environment where medical professionals from both militaries can build and strengthen medical treatment capability and capacity by honing their medical skills in alternative conditions while also learning different protocols from their counterparts.

Gen. Stephen Townsend, the commander of U.S. Africa Command, visited Morocco to attend the closing ceremony of Exercise African Lion 21 and to meet with several African defense leaders.

Click to see video from African Lion 21 events. AL21 was held from June 7-18, 2021, in Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia. The event is U.S. Africa Command’s largest, premier, Joint, annual exercise. More than 7,000 participants from nine nations and NATO trained together with a focus on enhancing readiness for U.S. and partner nation forces.

U.S. Army Special Forces Soldiers participating in African Lion 21 conduct fast rope training onto a rooftop building during a night training event in Tifnit, Morocco.

Senegal military members treat a simulated casualty from a chemical attack during a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defense demonstration hosted by the Moroccan and Senegalese militaries in Agadir, Morocco.

Members of USS Hershel "Woody" Williams welcome aboard Maj. Gen. Andrew Rohling, the U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa commander, for a tour of the vessel at the Agadir Commercial Port in Agadir, Morocco, during an African Lion key leader engagement.

A U.S. Army paratrooper presents the U.S. Army Parachutist Badge to a Royal Moroccan Army paratrooper during a wing exchange on the Grier Labouie Airbase, Morocco, during African Lion 21.

Soldiers with the Georgia Army National Guard completed multinational live-fire training under the concealment of night during exercise African Lion 21 in Tan Tan, Morocco. Artillery fire illuminated the sky, enabling infantry to maneuver.