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  • CADJ Executes Mass-Casualty Exercise, Validating New HLZ

    In the pre-dawn hours, an alarm comes screaming from a loudspeaker, launching Airmen and Soldiers out of bed to react to an attack. This was the beginning of a mass-casualty exercise to test U.S. service members on April 22, 2026, at Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti (CADJ), proving their ability to

  • 726 EMSS Airman integrates real-time munitions tracking tool

    The 449th Air Expeditionary Group just took a step into the future of space utilization in their area of responsibility within East Africa. Recently, Senior Airman Caden Goodwin of the 726th Expeditionary Mission Support Squadron led the integration of a new weapons storage space allocation tracking

  • 726th EMSS logistics teams provide vital support across East Africa

    The supply team, tasked with managing aircraft parts, equipment, weapons, hazardous materials and vehicle parts, plays a critical role in maintaining operational readiness for both Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti (CLDJ) and outstations such as Chabelley Airfield, Djibouti (CADJ) and Camp Simba, Kenya.

  • 82nd ERQS participates in Exercise Bull Shark 24-2

    During the semi-annual exercise, which focuses on strengthening partnerships and reinforcing crisis response capabilities in a combined joint environment, the coalition of forces conducted personnel recovery crisis response interoperability training to include water hoist considerations, swift water

  • SERE specialists sharpen FAD’s land navigation skills

    The U.S. Air Force's Joint Personnel Recovery Center at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, instructed members of the Armed Forces of Djibouti Batallion d’intervention rapide (Rapid Intervention Battalion, or BIR) on land navigation skills March 21, 2024, at Ali Ouney, Djibouti. 

  • 406 AEW command chief visits AB 201

    U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Ted Braxton, 406th Air Expeditionary Wing command chief, visited members of the 409th Air Expeditionary Group at Air Base 201, Niger, Jan. 27, 2024.

  • 776th EABS, 82nd ERQS exchange rescue skills

    U.S. Air Force pararescuemen assigned to the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron and Airmen with the 776th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron’s fire department conducted rope rescue training Jan. 30, 2024, at Camp Lemonnier.

  • AFE keeps aircrew, operators safe in East Africa

    At Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, where combat rescue helicopters and cargo aircraft take to the skies to enable these missions, two teams of Aircrew Flight Equipment Airmen work around the clock and behind the scenes to ensure their aircrew are ready for anything.

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