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U.S. Marines are exercising a cooperative security location and training with Senegalese military partners in Dakar, Senegal. The Marines, with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa based out of Morón, Spain, are a self-sustaining crisis response force prepared for the protection of American personnel and facilities on the African continent, when directed by U.S. Africa Command. Deploying to and operating from a CSL provides access and proximity for U.S. forces. Interview: Lorenzo Armijo (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Staff Sgt. Vitaliy Rusavskiy)

Gabonese service members attend a class given by U.S. Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa showing the functions of different components to generators at the Marines’ Cooperative Security Location in Libreville, Gabon, June 22, 2015. Marines with SPMAGTF-CR-AF demonstrated the capabilities and functions of different generators to enhance the knowledge and further develop their relationship with their Gabonese counterparts. The unit is currently validating its ability to sustain a forward-staged contingent of Marines at the CSL, where they will continue to work alongside host nation forces. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Christopher Mendoza/Released)

Nearly 40 Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa 15.2 rehearsed entry control center operations during a certification exercise, June 19 at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia. The exercise certified the Marines' abilities to receive and process U.S. citizens and U.S. embassy personnel at a cooperative security location, a forward-staged compound fit with dining, hygiene and command and control facilities, should a U.S. embassy be evacuated. The scenario used Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia as a U.S. embassy in the Central African Republic and NAS Oceana as the CSL in nearby Gabon.