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Marines across Europe with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa give a special rendition of “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” Dec. 23, 2016.

Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa partnered with Uganda People's Defense Force soldiers during training, Oct. 7- Dec. 11, 2016.

Marines assigned to the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Africa mobilize during an alert drill to prepare for possible incidences that would require a combative response at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy.

SPMAGTF-CR-AF Marines conduct non lethal training at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy, Dec. 2, 2016. During the week-long course, Marines covered taser training, mechanical arm control holds, OC exposure and riot control techniques.

The Benin Navy partnered with the U.S. Marine Corps to conduct Non-Commissioned Officer development and general maintenance management training at Benin Naval Forces Headquarters, Cotonou, Benin, October 17-28, 2016.

U.S. Marines are in Senegal working alongside Senegalese armed forces partners, mentoring and advising a demining course for the West African nation. A group of explosive ordnance disposal technicians with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa, began assisting Senegalese engineers as part of the Humanitarian Mine Action Program, Feb. 15, 2016, at Camp Moussa, an engineer training base, in Bargny, Senegal.

Nearly 100 Marines and sailors with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa established an evacuation control center for an exercise in Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy. The exercise prepared the crisis response unit for a military assisted departure mission. The passenger terminal used hosted a real ECC 19 months ago when SPMAGTF-CR-AF, assisted in the evacuation of U.S. personnel from the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, Libya. U.S. citizens and embassy personnel traveled by ground convoy to neighboring Tunisia, before being flown to NAS Sigonella, where they were processed through the ECC before moving on to other locations.