Camp Lemonier • 87th Expeditionary Security Force Squadron, 824th Security Forces Squadron
Home base: Moody Air Force Base, Ga.
Mission: protect the flight line and air assets of Combined Joint Task Force — Horn of Africa story• 20th Special Operations Squadron
Based at: Hurlburt Field, Fla.
One of eight flying squadrons within the 16th Special Operations Wing, the “Green Hornets” fly the MH-53J Pave Low IIIE, the Air Force’s most sophisticated helicopter.
Mission: to conduct day or night low-level penetration into hostile enemy territory, to accomplish clandestine infiltration and exfiltration, aerial gunnery support and resupply of special operations forces
Marine Corps
Camp Lemonier
1,300 troops
U.S. troops from Marine Corps, Army and other services, including Special Operations Forces
Mission: Logistical support for Combined Joint Task Force — Horn of Africa, which is responsible for rooting out terrorists in Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti
Lemonier, which the United States took charge of in June 2002, is a former French Foreign Legion base.
Djibouti
