Flintlock Opening Ceremony

Take a brief look at Africa Command’s premiere Special Operations exercise Flintlock, where troops from 28 nations participate. This year’s exercise, Flintlock 15, was hosted by Chad. Flintlock is a joint, combined multinational exercise to improve information sharing at the operational and tactical levels across the Saharan region while fostering increased collaboration and coordination. Its focus is military interoperability and capacity-building among African, Western and U.S. counterterrorism forces. For more on Flintlock visit Africa Command’s website at http://www.africom.mil/newsroom/article/24027/chad-to-host-flintlock-2015

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