Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force 12.2

A Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force in Africa.  11th MEU floating in the CENTCOM area of operations.  24th MEU soon to join them...Special Forces has at least a battalions worth of ODA's operating on the continent.  Force Recon has come home to the MEU and SPMAGTF....Rangers are all over the place...including Africa.  The USAF has C-130's flying all over the place and they also have a squadron of F-15E's in the area.  And they've suddenly frozen the sat image out of Camp Lemonnier.

Pure speculation on my part but something is happening.  What?  I just don't know but something juicy is brewing....Oh and I haven't even talked about the Brits, French, Italians and others.  And the EU just approved strikes on pirate land bases.

Photo by Cpl. Jad Sleiman A force reconnaissance Marine goes over threat detection methods with a group of Ugandan soldiers, Feb. 28. Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force 12 sent a small team of Marines into Uganda, Feb. 3, to train Ugandan forces for the fight against al-Shabaab in Somalia and the hunt for Joseph Kony and the Lord’s resistance army.

 Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force 12.2 stand on line with AK-47 assault rifles preparing to conduct a live fire exercise during foreign weapons familiarization training near Crawfordsville, Ark., Jan. 23, 2012. The Marines and sailors of SPMAGTF 12.2 are deploying to Africa to advise host nation militaries on various military tactics.  Photo by Lance Cpl. Adwin Esters

 

Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force 12.2 Marines receive a class from Instructor Phil Aldredge on the destructive effects of the 7.62x39mm round on various mediums during foreign weapons familiarization training near Crawfordsville, Ark., Jan. 23, 2012. The Marines and sailors of SPMAGTF 12.2 are deploying to Africa to advise host nation militaries on various military tactics.  Photo by Lance Cpl. Adwin Esters

Landing support specialist Sgt. Geoffrey Dubie, Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force 12.2 watches over Cpl. Stefan Tunstall, a field radio operator, as he takes aim on his target during foreign weapons familiarization training near Crawfordsville, Ark., Jan. 23, 2012. The Marines and sailors of SPMAGTF 12.2 are deploying to Africa to advise host nation militaries on various military tactics.  Photo by Lance Cpl. Adwin Esters