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  • Special Forces Support Pan Sahel Initiative in Africa

    03/08/2004 11:11:03 AM PST · by Calpernia · 11 replies · 379+ views
    Special to American Forces Press Service ^ | March 8, 2004 | By 1st Lt. Phillip Ulmer, USAF
    Soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Stuttgart, Germany, are training African soldiers along the outer reaches of the Sahara Desert in support of the global war on terrorism. Special Forces training teams from Special Operations Command Europe are in Bamako, Gao and Timbuktu, Mali; and Atar, Mauritania in northwestern Africa to provide foreign internal defense training for the Pan Sahel Initiative, a U.S. State Department security assistance program. "We're training basic platoon level tasks to one company of the 33rd Parachute Infantry Regiment in Bamako in order to enhance their capabilities to police their...