DVIDS – News – African Lion 2025 emphasizes us, Tunisian military partnerships and medical readiness

Tunis, Tunisia – Exercise African Lion 2025 (AL25) offers US service members the unique opportunity to train together with troops with different backgrounds and specialties, to promote cooperation and to strengthen permanent partnerships with their Tunisian colleagues.
“A highlight is the meeting and interaction with US soldiers for different backgrounds and specialist areas and the special relationship with the Tunisian soldiers with whom we interacted,” said SGT. Dwight Chavez, a soldier of the Army Reserve, which is assigned to the 988th medical department and the preventive medicine (903. PM), a US army) Reserve unit based in Machesney Park, Illinois, increased during the exercise.

This feeling was guided through several downtracial units of the 807th Theater Medical Command, an important contribution to AL25, both about real medical support and invaluable training opportunities. The most important participating units included the 409th Medical Company Area Support (MCAS), the 903. PM and the 172nd multifunctional medical battalion (MMB).

AL25 will be the largest annual military exercise in Africa and bring together over 40 nations, including seven NATO allies and 10,000 troops, to carry out realistic, dynamic and collaborative training in a strict environment that overlaps several geographical and functional fighters from May 14 to 23, 2025, in Ghana, Morokko, Senie and Tunesia and Tunesia Tunesia, Senie and Senie, Senegal and Sene, Senegal, in Senegal, Senegal. Medical operations are crucial for maintaining the standby and security service members, both during this exercise and to prepare for future joint, combined operations together with multinational partners.

Each participating unit played an effective role in the mission in overseas and at the same time gained valuable experiences to improve future business skills.

“For the 409th, it is important to participate in this mission to ensure continuous medical support for soldiers in both routine and emergency environments,” said the US Army SPC. Melissa Mangino, which is assigned to the 919th Medical Company Ground Ambulance and expanded the 409th McAS. “In a sick call environment we offer essential care such as the administration of NSAIDS [nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs] And deposits to manage minor conditions and keep soldiers on mission. ”

Mangino also described how the 409th MCAS repeated a crucial role in supporting roles 2 of the 933. Striker by supporting the victim movement and serving as additional hands for medical providers, which improves the medical willingness and reaction of the entire overall medical operation.

Soldiers were distributed through several training locations throughout Tunisia. The 409th MCAS provided medical support from role and illness calls in the school training area of ​​Ben Ghilouf as well as sick call companies in Tunis and Bizerte.

The providers of Rolle 1 demonstrate an initial medical assessment and treatment, an initial trauma supply and a revival, without surgical care. Role supply includes additional medical treatment, advanced trauma management, emergency surgery and resuscitation.

“It is good if the doctors are bored” became a familiar chorus among the soldiers in Ben Ghilouf, a positive indicator that the operations run smoothly, without great accidents or illnesses. This success reflected the hardworking work and cooperation of the 903. PM team.

“Units of preventive medicine help by minimizing risks and dangers in diseases and non-battle injuries such as water that are transmitted in the air, in air and through food that were our main focus during this mission,” said Chavez.

In addition to the PM operation, veterinary soldiers contributed to identifying potential risks for public health in training areas and facilities by carrying out food and water risk ratings (FWRA).

Apart from the practical medical and veterinary support, didactic training served with the members of the Tunisian armed forces to exchange knowledge and strengthen partnerships.

“Our role this year as a veterinary team is primarily academic. We work with our Tunisian colleagues to deliver a variety of topics such as food safety and defense, water management, a veterinarian role in a crisis and classes to MWD [Military Working Dog] Care, ”said the Major of the US Army Brian Collins, which was assigned to the veterinary services of the 949th medical department, 172nd MMB.

“After I met some Tunisian veterinarians, I was impressed by the multitude of training courses that they received. They receive training courses in topics that go beyond what I learned in the veterinary school, which says a lot about the quality of the training that they received,” added Collins.

Likewise, the US Army Maj. Rebekah Austin and Sgt. Capprieottie Lee, who was assigned to the 785th medical department control, which was assigned 172nd MMB, was promoted by the parallels in the behavioral health practices between us and Tunisia.

“Our bra [behavioral health] The care system in the USA is very similar to that in Tunisia, ”said Austin.

Participation in the African lion increases the skills of the US service members in order to effectively work in complex environments with several domains and at the same time build the partnerships and skills that are necessary for use, struggle and profit alongside allies.

“I think the best thing about my role as BHT [behavioral health team] Was the fact that we have the ability to engage not only the Tunisian army, but also our soldiers and to establish meaningful relationships, ”concluded Lee.

African Lion 25 (AL25) will be the largest annual military exercise in Africa, which brings together over 50 nations, including seven NATO allies, and around 10,000 soldiers. Under the direction of the US Army in the South European Task Force in Africa (SETAF-AF) on behalf of the US Africa Command (USAAFRICAM), the exercise from May 14 to 23, 2025 takes place throughout Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia. AL25 is said to restore the warrior ethos, sharpen the lethality and strengthen military readiness together with our African partners and allies. This large-scale exercise will improve our ability to work together, to fight and attract forces in complex, cross-multi-domaina operations.