French Amphib Participates in Alligator Dagger off Djibouti; First Year France Included in Exercise
By: Ben Werner
December 20, 2017 5:02 PM
About 1,000 sailors and Marines from the United States and France trained together in the annual Alligator Dagger amphibious exercise, in the first time France has been brought into the unilateral exercise off the coast of Djibouti.
U.S. sailors and Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, along with the crews of the French Mistral-class amphibious assault ship Tonnerre (L9014) and the new expeditionary sea base USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB-3), rehearsed amphibious operations and combat sustainment at sea and ashore in the exercise scheduled to run from Dec. 12 to 21, according to a news release from Naval Amphibious Force, Task Force 51/5, 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade.
https://news.usni.org/2017/12/20/french-amphib-participates-in-alligator-dagger-off-djibouti-first-year-france-included-in-exercise
