Royal Moroccan Armed Forces

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African Lion 2024: Morocco hosts multinational planning meeting

12:00 AM10/6/2023

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the African Lion exercise series. What started as a bilateral exercise between the U.S. Marines and the Moroccan Army has grown every year to include three additional African host nations, multiple African and European partners and allies, and the entire U.S. joint and total force.

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Gen. Langley makes first visit to North Africa as commander

12:46 PM10/20/2022

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Michael Langley, commander, U.S. Africa Command, and General Belkhir El Farouk, inspector general of the Moroccan Armed Forces and commander of the Southern Zone, salute Moroccan service members during an Honor Guard pass and review in Rabat, Morocco, on Oct. 17, 2022. The visit to Morocco, followed by a stop in Tunisia, was Langley's third to Africa since taking command.

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Gen. Langley makes first visit to North Africa as commander

3:36 PM10/19/2022

During his first trip to North Africa since taking command of U.S. Africa Command, U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Michael Langley visited Morocco, Tunisia, and the USNS Trenton.

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Devil Raiders enable Exercise African Lion 21 with critical airfield surveys

1:49 PM5/18/2021

Air Mobility Command deployed two airfield survey teams from the 621st Contingency Response Wing to the Kingdom of Morocco April 17-27 to conduct airfield surveys in preparation for Exercise African Lion 21.

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Morocco praises continued security cooperation with AFRICOM

1:54 PM4/12/2021

U.S. Army Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander, U.S. Africa Command spoke with the Inspector General of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces, Gen. Abdelfatah Louarak on April 6.

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Plans underway for African Lion, Africa's biggest military exercise

8:39 AM2/4/2021

Planners for exercise African Lion 21 survey a small arms weapons range during a visit to Morocco Jan. 20, 2021. Plans for this year's iteration will involve more than 5,000 troops from the U.S., Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and elsewhere.

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Plans underway for African Lion, Africa's biggest military exercise

8:39 AM2/4/2021

A Royal Morocco Armed Forces officer explains the capabilities of a firing range during a site survey for exercise African Lion 21. Plans for this year's iteration will involve more than 5,000 troops from the U.S., Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and elsewhere.

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Plans underway for African Lion, Africa's biggest military exercise

8:39 AM2/4/2021

Capt. Jonathan Paul, 173rd Brigade, explains his unit's training requirements to Moroccan military planners during a site survey in Morocco Jan. 22, 2021. Plans for this year's iteration will involve more than 5,000 troops from the U.S., Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and elsewhere.

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Plans underway for African Lion, Africa's biggest military exercise

8:39 AM2/4/2021

African Lions 21 is scheduled to kick off in June 2021. This year's iteration will involve ~5,000 troops from the U.S., Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and elsewhere.

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Marine Forces Africa commander conducts virtual meeting with Royal Moroccan Navy leader

8:42 AM1/7/2021

The two leaders affirmed the importance of the mutually beneficial U.S.-Morocco partnership and their unwavering dedication to the strong relationship between the U.S. Marine Corps and the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces.

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US, Moroccan Generals launch planning for African Lion 21

9:01 AM11/16/2020

Maj. Gen. Andrew Rohling, the U.S. Army Southern European Task Force commanding general and U.S. Army Europe-Africa deputy commanding general, met with Moroccan Gen. Belkhir El Farouk, the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces Southern Zone commander. Both agreed that the African Lion exercise, scheduled for June, represents a chance to show the continued strong strategic partnership between the United States and Morocco, even as both countries face the COVID-19.

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US, Moroccan Generals launch planning for African Lion 21

8:55 AM11/16/2020

Plans for African Lion 21 build on African Lion 20, which was curtailed last spring during the coronavirus outbreak.

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USS Hershel “Woody” Williams Conducts Tracking Exercise with Royal Moroccan Navy

9:33 AM9/21/2020

The Expeditionary Sea Base USS Hershel "Woody" Williams and the Royal Moroccan Navy's Floreal-class Frigate Mohammad V conduct training for the tracking and intercept of vessels of interest in the Atlantic Ocean, Sept. 15, 2020.

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USS Hershel “Woody” Williams Conducts Tracking Exercise with Royal Moroccan Navy

9:31 AM9/21/2020

An MH-60S Seahawk helicopter, assigned to the "Ghost Riders" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28, conduct visit board search and seizure drills with the Royal Moroccan Navy's Floreal-class Frigate Mohammad V and the Expeditionary Sea Base USS Hershel "Woody" Williams in the Atlantic Ocean Sept. 15, 2020.

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USS Hershel “Woody” Williams Conducts Tracking Exercise with Royal Moroccan Navy

9:27 AM9/21/2020

The Expeditionary Sea Base USS Hershel "Woody" Williams and the Royal Moroccan Navy's Floreal-class Frigate Mohammad V conduct training for the tracking and intercept of vessels of interest in the Atlantic Ocean, Sept. 15, 2020.

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USS Hershel “Woody” Williams Conducts Tracking Exercise with Royal Moroccan Navy

9:25 AM9/21/2020

An MH-60S Seahawk helicopter, assigned to the "Ghost Riders" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28, conduct visit board search and seizure drills with the Royal Moroccan Navy's Floreal-class Frigate Mohammad V and the Expeditionary Sea Base USS Hershel "Woody" Williams in the Atlantic Ocean Sept. 15, 2020.

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USS Hershel “Woody” Williams Conducts Tracking Exercise with Royal Moroccan Navy

9:22 AM9/21/2020

Personnel aboard Expeditionary Sea Base USS Hershel "Woody" Williams participate in visit, board, search and seizure training with Sailors assigned to the Royal Moroccan Navy's Floreal-class Frigate Mohammad V in the Atlantic Ocean Sept. 15, 2020.

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USS Hershel “Woody” Williams, Royal Moroccan Navy conduct tracking exercise

8:40 AM9/21/2020

The exercise follows Morocco’s participation in an air interoperability mission Sept. 7, in which four F-16s from the Moroccan Air Force trained alongside U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortresses and the U.S. Navy's USS Roosevelt.

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Marines, Royal Moroccan Armed Forces conduct quick response force training

10:21 AM6/2/2020

U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa 20.1, Marine Forces Europe and Africa, secure a hostile simulated building alongside members of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces at Inezgane, Morocco, Feb. 26, 2020. SPMAGTF-CR-AF is deployed to conduct crisis-response and theater-security operations in Africa and promote regional stability by conducting military-to-military training exercises throughout Europe and Africa. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Kenny Gomez)

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U.S. Marines Continue Humanitarian Mine Action Program

12:00 AM3/12/2020

At the request of the Kingdom of Morocco, U.S. Marine Corps explosive ordnance disposal technicians will facilitate HMA explosive ordnance disposal level one validation for the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces in 2020

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Senegalese teach African partner forces casualty care at Flintlock 2020

12:00 AM2/25/2020

Soldiers with the Armed Forces of Senegal oversaw instruction to teach lifesaving skills to their African neighbors during the exercise running Feb. 17-28, 2020.

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