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Caption:
Locals from Lamu, Kenya, look on as Marines of the 13th Marine
Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) come ashore in a
Landing Craft Air Cushioned from the USS Germantown January 6 to kick
off Exercise Edged Mallet-04, a bilateral-training and humanitarian
assistance exercise conducted annually with Kenyan Department of
Defense forces.
The MEU personnel, consisting primarily of Marines and Sailors from
detachments of MEU Service Support Group-13 who arrived in Lamu will
participate in a humanitarian aid project with Kenyan Army engineers to
refurbish buildings of the Lamu Boys’ Secondary School. The
combined effort is designed to enhance teamwork between the forces and
strengthen the longstanding military-to-military relationship that
exists between the United States and Kenya.
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