CJTF-HOA Photo

By Technical Sergeant Sam Rogers, U.S. Air Force

November 24, 2008

NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyan soldiers raise flags of 13 African nations participating in the Eastern Africa Standby Brigade command post exercise on November 24, 2008. The week-long exercise was held at the International Mine Action Training Center near Nairobi to prepare the force for peacekeeping and other duties under the auspices of the African Union. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Technical Sergeant Sam Rogers)

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U.S. Air Force Capt. Jay Ostrich, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa deputy director of Public Affairs, demonstrates photography techniques to Kenya Defense Forces Sgt. Stanley Samoei during a military photojournalism workshop at the International Peace Support Training Center, Nairobi, Kenya, July 19, 2013. The two-day workshop, designed to enhance KDF capacities in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), was the first of its kind between the two countries, allowing the participants to share best practices in photography skills. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chad Warren)

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Eight soldiers and airmen from Kenya Defense Forces partnered with two Airman from Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa Public Affairs Office for a two-day, military-to military photojournalism workshop at the International Peace Support Training Center, Nairobi, Kenya, July 18-19, 2013.

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CJTF-HOA supports Eastern Accord 2016

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Joint SAR training tests interservice communications

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Many moving parts go into producing and executing an exercise and U.S. Air Force pararescuemen, or PJs, deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, or CJTF-HOA, put their skills to the test recently during a mass casualty exercise which began in Djibouti's Grand Bara Desert.

Mass Casualty Exercise 12-1, a U.S. and French crisis response exercise held Sept. 25, 2012, allowed CJTF-HOA's PJ team to work alongside the French armed forces, as well as their U.S.