The US protection official stated that a number of helicopters, vessels, drones, mountaineers and divers had been concerned within the search.
The troops had been participating in an annual joint army coaching train referred to as African Lion, which brings collectively US, allied African, and NATO militaries for drills in northern and west Africa.
The US army describes the coaching as “Africa Command’s largest premier, joint, annual train,” bringing collectively “greater than 10,000 individuals from greater than 20 nations, together with contingents from NATO.” It’s hosted by Morocco, Ghana, Senegal and Tunisia.
In 2012, two US Marines had been killed and two extra had been injured in an plane crash in the identical space throughout that 12 months’s African Lion train.

