Ben Werner,USNI
About 1000 sailors and Marines from the United States and France trained together in the annual Alligator Dagger amphibious exercise, in the first time France has been brought into the unilateral exercise off the coast of Djibouti.
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S. sailors and Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or along with the crews of the French Mistral-class amphibious assault ship Tonnerre (L9014) and the unusual expeditionary sea base USS Lewis B. Puller(ESB-3),rehearsed amphibious operations and combat sustainment at sea and ashore in the exercise scheduled to hasten from Dec. 12 to 21, according to a...
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