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21 August 2008

Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa website: http://www.hoa.centcom.mil/

A sends:
Attached is a word doc with an undated satellite photo of the airport in Djibouti. I pointed and labeled the aircraft in the photo. I suspect the P-3 Orions may actually be EP-3 Aries spy planes and the CH-53s may be MH-53 special mission helicopters.
US Military Presence in Djibouti
Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa
Text from SourceWatch
The Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa is "a unit based at Camp Lemonier in Djibouti--a sweltering 88-acre outpost by the Gulf of Aden once inhabited by the French Foreign Legion. Sitting at the end of a garbage-strewn dirt road leading out of the capital, the camp is where 1,800 U.S. troops, including hundreds of special operations forces, have since May [2003] based their missions covering seven countries in Africa and on the Arabian Peninsula. And according to the plans being drawn up in unadorned cubicles back at the Pentagon, it is the U.S. military mission in the Horn of Africa—even more than the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq—that is a window into the next decade in the war on terrorism."

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Photos below: http://www.defenseimagery.mil/index.htm

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U.S. Soldiers from 4th Platoon, Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment attached to a joint combat search and rescue team conduct sling-load operations at Chabelley Air Field in Djibouti Aug. 14, 2008. The Soldiers conducted the training using U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron HMH-464 based out of Camp Lemonier. Sling-load training helps JCSAR Soldiers remain proficient in skills needed to conduct tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers/Released)
Photographer's Name: Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers Date Shot: 8/14/2008 Date Posted: 8/20/2008 Location: Chabelley Air Field
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U.S. Soldiers from 4th Platoon, Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment attached to a joint combat search and rescue team conduct sling-load operations at Chabelley Air Field in Djibouti Aug. 14, 2008. The Soldiers conducted the training using U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron HMH-464 based out of Camp Lemonier. Sling-load training helps JCSAR Soldiers remain proficient in skills needed to conduct tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers/Released)
Photographer's Name: Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers Date Shot: 8/14/2008 Date Posted: 8/20/2008 Location: Chabelley Air Field

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U.S. Army soldiers from 4th Platoon, Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment attached to a joint combat search and rescue team conduct sling-load operations at Chabelley Air Field in Djibouti on Aug. 14, 2008. The soldiers conducted the training using U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464 based out of Camp Lemonier. Sling-load training helps search and rescue team soldiers remain proficient in skills needed to conduct tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
Photographer's Name: Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers Date Shot: 8/14/2008 Date Posted: 8/20/2008 Location: Chabelley Air Field
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A view of the Somalia/Djibouti border outside Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, is shown Aug. 11, 2008. U.S. service members are deployed to the base in support of the Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Carolyn Erfe/Released)
Photographer's Name: SSgt Carolyn Erfe Date Shot: 8/11/2008 Date Posted: 8/14/2008 Location: Camp Lemonier

Below: Associated Press

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U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, right, visiting with members of Marine Corps' 4th Light-Armoured Reconnaisance Battalion at Camp Lemonier in Djibouti., Friday, Sept. 1, 2006. Camp Lemonier serves an anti-terrorism base in the strategic Horn of Africa region where more than 1,700 servicemen from America's four military branches work on regional maritime security and humanitarian projects throughout the sub region. (AP Photo/Les Neuhaus)
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A U.S. Marine salutes as the casket of Marine Capt. Bryan Willard is carried from the Trinity United Methodist church following funeral services, Thursday, March 2, 2006, in New Kingstown, Pa. Willard was killed in a helicopter crash during a training flight on Feb. 17 in the Gulf of Aden off the Djibouti coast. He and the other service members killed in the crash were part of the U.S.-led Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa, a counterterrorism force. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Minick)

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In this image provided by the U.S. Military Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006, members of the U.S. Military Combined Joint Task Force, right, and the Djibouti military search the area Saturday where two U.S. Marine Corps transport helicopters crashed into the sea of the coast of Djibouti. Rescuers searched the waters off Djibouti's coast Saturday for 10 missing crew of two U.S. Marine Corps transport helicopters that crashed into the sea, a military spokeswoman said. The CH-53E choppers, carrying a dozen troops, went down Friday. (AP Photo/U.S Military Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa)
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In this photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army Postal Inspector, Captain Maria Auer, of the U.S. Army 55th Postal Service Battalion, performs quality control checks for incoming and outgoing mail from Combined Joint Task Force, Horn of Africa, Feb. 22, 2006, at Camp LeMonier, in Djibouti, Africa. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force,Staff Sgt. Nic Raven)

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A child waits outside houses cobbled together from scrap lumber and sheet metal in Djibouti, Djibouti in November 2006. In early January, air strikes on suspected terrorists called the worlds attention to this region. But the U.S. military has been quietly engaged in the Horn of Africa since 2002, using about 1,500 troops and millions of U.S. tax dollars to build schools and medical clinics, dig wells, treat sick people and inoculate livestock. Camp Lemonier, the only U.S. military base in sub-Saharan Africa, is miles away. The mission in the Horn of Africa is experimental: to stop the spread of terrorism through good works. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Chris Tyree) ** MAGS OUT, ONLINES OUT **
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Unidentified members of an Army Reserve unit from Montgomery, Ala., fix a well in a tiny village in Djibouti, in November 2006. The pump is critical for both residents mostly nomadic herders and livestock. It took the 334th Engineer Detachment less than two days to fix it. The engineers planned to return to convert the hand pump into a solar pump that will require less maintenance and serve a larger population. In early January, air strikes on suspected terrorists called the worlds attention to this region. But the U.S. military has been quietly engaged in the Horn of Africa since 2002, using about 1,500 troops and millions of U.S. tax dollars to build schools and medical clinics, dig wells, treat sick people and inoculate livestock. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Chris Tyree) ** MAGS OUT, ONLINES OUT **

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** FILE **The USS Mount Whitney, the command and control centre for a U.S.-led task force for the Horn of Africa can be seen from a CH-46 "Frog" helicopter as the ship circles in the Gulf of Aden in this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002 file photo. The U.S. military task force in the Horn of Africa was set up in 2002 to intercept al-Qaida suspects trying to escape from Afghanistan to Africa, but has found greater success in helping regional militaries and local people take care of themselves. The Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa is based in Djibouti, a country the size of Massachusetts located on the Bab el Mandab strait where the Red Sea opens into the Indian Ocean. The country was a French colony, carved out of the Horn of Africa because of its strategic location and a natural, deep water harbor.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
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** FILE ** US Marines disembark from a CH-46 "Frog" helicopter after it landed on the deck of the USS Mount Whitney, the command and control centre for a U.S.-led task force for the Horn of Africa as the ship circles in the Gulf of Aden in this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002 file photo. The U.S. military task force in the Horn of Africa was set up in 2002 to intercept al-Qaida suspects trying to escape from Afghanistan to Africa, but has found greater success in helping regional militaries and local people take care of themselves. The Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa is based in Djibouti, a country the size of Massachusetts located on the Bab el Mandab strait where the Red Sea opens into the Indian Ocean. The country was a French colony, carved out of the Horn of Africa because of its strategic location and a natural, deep water harbor.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

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A militia from the Islamic Courts Union pose with his machine gun in this June 17, 2006 file picture in Jowar some 90 kilometers, 56 miles, north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Governments in the Horn of Africa have watched with concern as the Somali Transitional Federal Government they helped create in 2004 after two years of peace talks has been eclipsed by the Islamic Courts Union, led by an elderly cleric, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, who is committed to a nationalist, Islamic regime and allegedly has ties to Ethiopian rebel groups.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
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Justin Mackey, from 379 ESFS Expeditary Security Forces Squadron Al Udeid Qatar, patrol the Cargo area at Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Dec 11, 2006. . At a time when America's reputation abroad is foundering, the U.S. military this week has been airdropping 240,000 pounds of supplies to Kenya's Dadaab area, where three refugee camps have been cut off by the catastrophic floods that have inundated parts of East Africa. The relief mission is the latest operation by by a U.S. counter terrorism force known as the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, which is responsible for fighting terrorism in the Horn of Africa as well as Yemen, Tanzania and Uganda. Formed one year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the task force uses humanitarian aid, military training and intelligence operations to keep nations in the region from becoming terrorist havens. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

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Militia from the Islamic Courts Union drive a machine gun mounted truck through Balad in this June 17, 2006 file picture some 40 kilometers north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Governments in the Horn of Africa have watched with concern as the Somali Transitional Federal Government they helped create in 2004 after two years of peace talks has been eclipsed by the Islamic Courts Union, led by an elderly cleric, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, who is committed to a nationalist, Islamic regime and allegedly has ties to Ethiopian rebel groups.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
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Militia from the Islamic Courts Union drink juice in Balad in this June 17, 2006 file picture some 40 kilometers, 25 miles north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Governments in the Horn of Africa have watched with concern as the Somali Transitional Federal Government they helped create in 2004 after two years of peace talks has been eclipsed by the Islamic Courts Union, led by an elderly cleric, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, who is committed to a nationalist, Islamic regime and allegedly has ties to Ethiopian rebel groups. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

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U.S. Army Sgt. Gene Guzman Jr., left, and his father, 1st Sgt. Gene Guzman Sr., right, prepare for a training exercise in Djibouti, Aug. 3, 2006. Three members of the Guzman family are stationed together in the Horn of Africa, part of an anti-terrorism and regional security team. (AP Photo/Les Neuhaus)
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This undated photo provided by the United States Air Force Friday, Feb. 17, 2006, shows the Global Hawk Air Vehicle No. 3, an unmanned surveillance aircraft that has flown 4,245 hours in support of combat operations for Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Combined Task Force-Horn of Africa missions in an undisclosed location. (AP Photo/USAF, Renaldo Raymon)

Photos below: http://www.defenseimagery.mil/index.htm
U.S. Soldiers from 4th Platoon, Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment attached to a joint combat search and rescue team conduct sling-load operations at Chabelley Air Field in Djibouti Aug. 14, 2008. The Soldiers conducted the training using U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron HMH-464 based out of Camp Lemonier. Sling-load training helps JCSAR Soldiers remain proficient in skills needed to conduct tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers/Released) Photographer's Name: Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers Date Shot: 8/14/2008 Date Posted: 8/20/2008 Location: Chabelley Air Field	U.S. Soldiers from 4th Platoon, Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment attached to a joint combat search and rescue team conduct sling-load operations at Chabelley Air Field in Djibouti Aug. 14, 2008. The Soldiers conducted the training using U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron HMH-464 based out of Camp Lemonier. Sling-load training helps JCSAR Soldiers remain proficient in skills needed to conduct tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers/Released) Photographer's Name: Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers Date Shot: 8/14/2008 Date Posted: 8/20/2008 Location: Chabelley Air Field
U.S. Army soldiers from 4th Platoon, Bravo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment attached to a joint combat search and rescue team conduct sling-load operations at Chabelley Air Field in Djibouti on Aug. 14, 2008. The soldiers conducted the training using U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464 based out of Camp Lemonier. Sling-load training helps search and rescue team soldiers remain proficient in skills needed to conduct tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers, U.S. Air Force. (Released) Photographer's Name: Staff Sgt. Samuel Rogers Date Shot: 8/14/2008 Date Posted: 8/20/2008 Location: Chabelley Air Field	A view of the Somalia/Djibouti border outside Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, is shown Aug. 11, 2008. U.S. service members are deployed to the base in support of the Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Carolyn Erfe/Released) Photographer's Name: SSgt Carolyn Erfe Date Shot: 8/11/2008 Date Posted: 8/14/2008 Location: Camp Lemonier

Below: Associated Press
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, right, visiting with members of Marine Corps' 4th Light-Armoured Reconnaisance Battalion at Camp Lemonier in Djibouti., Friday, Sept. 1, 2006. Camp Lemonier serves an anti-terrorism base in the strategic Horn of Africa region where more than 1,700 servicemen from America's four military branches work on regional maritime security and humanitarian projects throughout the sub region. (AP Photo/Les Neuhaus)	A U.S. Marine salutes as the casket of Marine Capt. Bryan Willard is carried from the Trinity United Methodist church following funeral services, Thursday, March 2, 2006, in New Kingstown, Pa. Willard was killed in a helicopter crash during a training flight on Feb. 17 in the Gulf of Aden off the Djibouti coast. He and the other service members killed in the crash were part of the U.S.-led Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa, a counterterrorism force. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Minick)
In this image provided by the U.S. Military Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006, members of the U.S. Military Combined Joint Task Force, right, and the Djibouti military search the area Saturday where two U.S. Marine Corps transport helicopters crashed into the sea of the coast of Djibouti. Rescuers searched the waters off Djibouti's coast Saturday for 10 missing crew of two U.S. Marine Corps transport helicopters that crashed into the sea, a military spokeswoman said. The CH-53E choppers, carrying a dozen troops, went down Friday. (AP Photo/U.S Military Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa)	In this photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army Postal Inspector, Captain Maria Auer, of the U.S. Army 55th Postal Service Battalion, performs quality control checks for incoming and outgoing mail from Combined Joint Task Force, Horn of Africa, Feb. 22, 2006, at Camp LeMonier, in Djibouti, Africa. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force,Staff Sgt. Nic Raven)
A child waits outside houses cobbled together from scrap lumber and sheet metal in Djibouti, Djibouti in November 2006. In early January, air strikes on suspected terrorists called the worlds attention to this region. But the U.S. military has been quietly engaged in the Horn of Africa since 2002, using about 1,500 troops and millions of U.S. tax dollars to build schools and medical clinics, dig wells, treat sick people and inoculate livestock. Camp Lemonier, the only U.S. military base in sub-Saharan Africa, is miles away. The mission in the Horn of Africa is experimental: to stop the spread of terrorism through good works. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Chris Tyree) MAGS OUT, ONLINES OUT	Unidentified members of an Army Reserve unit from Montgomery, Ala., fix a well in a tiny village in Djibouti, in November 2006. The pump is critical for both residents mostly nomadic herders and livestock. It took the 334th Engineer Detachment less than two days to fix it. The engineers planned to return to convert the hand pump into a solar pump that will require less maintenance and serve a larger population. In early January, air strikes on suspected terrorists called the worlds attention to this region. But the U.S. military has been quietly engaged in the Horn of Africa since 2002, using about 1,500 troops and millions of U.S. tax dollars to build schools and medical clinics, dig wells, treat sick people and inoculate livestock. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Chris Tyree) MAGS OUT, ONLINES OUT
FILE The USS Mount Whitney, the command and control centre for a U.S.-led task force for the Horn of Africa can be seen from a CH-46 "Frog" helicopter as the ship circles in the Gulf of Aden in this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002 file photo. The U.S. military task force in the Horn of Africa was set up in 2002 to intercept al-Qaida suspects trying to escape from Afghanistan to Africa, but has found greater success in helping regional militaries and local people take care of themselves. The Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa is based in Djibouti, a country the size of Massachusetts located on the Bab el Mandab strait where the Red Sea opens into the Indian Ocean. The country was a French colony, carved out of the Horn of Africa because of its strategic location and a natural, deep water harbor.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)	FILE US Marines disembark from a CH-46 "Frog" helicopter after it landed on the deck of the USS Mount Whitney, the command and control centre for a U.S.-led task force for the Horn of Africa as the ship circles in the Gulf of Aden in this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002 file photo. The U.S. military task force in the Horn of Africa was set up in 2002 to intercept al-Qaida suspects trying to escape from Afghanistan to Africa, but has found greater success in helping regional militaries and local people take care of themselves. The Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa is based in Djibouti, a country the size of Massachusetts located on the Bab el Mandab strait where the Red Sea opens into the Indian Ocean. The country was a French colony, carved out of the Horn of Africa because of its strategic location and a natural, deep water harbor.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
A militia from the Islamic Courts Union pose with his machine gun in this June 17, 2006 file picture in Jowar some 90 kilometers, 56 miles, north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Governments in the Horn of Africa have watched with concern as the Somali Transitional Federal Government they helped create in 2004 after two years of peace talks has been eclipsed by the Islamic Courts Union, led by an elderly cleric, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, who is committed to a nationalist, Islamic regime and allegedly has ties to Ethiopian rebel groups.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)	Justin Mackey, from 379 ESFS Expeditary Security Forces Squadron Al Udeid Qatar, patrol the Cargo area at Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Dec 11, 2006. . At a time when America's reputation abroad is foundering, the U.S. military this week has been airdropping 240,000 pounds of supplies to Kenya's Dadaab area, where three refugee camps have been cut off by the catastrophic floods that have inundated parts of East Africa. The relief mission is the latest operation by by a U.S. counter terrorism force known as the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, which is responsible for fighting terrorism in the Horn of Africa as well as Yemen, Tanzania and Uganda. Formed one year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the task force uses humanitarian aid, military training and intelligence operations to keep nations in the region from becoming terrorist havens. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
Militia from the Islamic Courts Union drive a machine gun mounted truck through Balad in this June 17, 2006 file picture some 40 kilometers north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Governments in the Horn of Africa have watched with concern as the Somali Transitional Federal Government they helped create in 2004 after two years of peace talks has been eclipsed by the Islamic Courts Union, led by an elderly cleric, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, who is committed to a nationalist, Islamic regime and allegedly has ties to Ethiopian rebel groups.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)	Militia from the Islamic Courts Union drink juice in Balad in this June 17, 2006 file picture some 40 kilometers, 25 miles north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Governments in the Horn of Africa have watched with concern as the Somali Transitional Federal Government they helped create in 2004 after two years of peace talks has been eclipsed by the Islamic Courts Union, led by an elderly cleric, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, who is committed to a nationalist, Islamic regime and allegedly has ties to Ethiopian rebel groups. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
U.S. Army Sgt. Gene Guzman Jr., left, and his father, 1st Sgt. Gene Guzman Sr., right, prepare for a training exercise in Djibouti, Aug. 3, 2006. Three members of the Guzman family are stationed together in the Horn of Africa, part of an anti-terrorism and regional security team. (AP Photo/Les Neuhaus)	This undated photo provided by the United States Air Force Friday, Feb. 17, 2006, shows the Global Hawk Air Vehicle No. 3, an unmanned surveillance aircraft that has flown 4,245 hours in support of combat operations for Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Combined Task Force-Horn of Africa missions in an undisclosed location. (AP Photo/USAF, Renaldo Raymon)