United States Marine Corps Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Operations in Africa==== Throughout the Global War on Terrorism, the U.S. Marines have supported operations in Africa to counter Islamic extremism and piracy in the [[Red Sea]]. In late 2002, [[Combined Joint Task Force β Horn of Africa]] was stood up at [[Camp Lemonnier]], Djibouti to provide regional security.<ref name="CJTF-HOA2">{{cite web |access-date = 3 August 2008|url = http://www.hoa.centcom.mil/resources/english/facts.asp|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080103014254/http://www.hoa.centcom.mil/resources/english/facts.asp|archive-date = 3 January 2008|title = Fact Sheet β CJTF-HOA|publisher = Combined Joint Task Force β Horn of Africa}}</ref> Despite transferring overall command to the Navy in 2006, the Marines continued to [[Operation Enduring Freedom β Horn of Africa|operate in the Horn of Africa]] into 2007.<ref name="USMC2">{{cite web |access-date = 3 August 2008|url = http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/20072844311|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071210224157/http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/20072844311|archive-date = 10 December 2007|title = 26th MEU lands in Djibouti for deployment's first exercise |date=Feb 7, 2007 |first1=Jeremy |last1=Ross |publisher = United States Marine Corps}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page