New security training and oversight after 2020 Manda Bay attack
By Meghann Myers
Mar 10, 02:59 PM
All troops deploying to U.S. Africa Command now have to complete a 27-day security training course, officials said Thursday during a Pentagon briefing, as part of a response to the early 2020 al-Shabab attack on Naval Base Manda Bay, Kenya, which left three Americans dead.
The course is one of the recommendations to come out of the initial AFRICOM investigation and a subsequent, Army-led review of that investigation, the results of which were first released on Thursday.
The training “greatly exceeds the previous pre-deployment courses and focuses on providing the base-defense mindset and force-protection posture needed to operate in a hostile environment,” Air Force Brig. Gen. Roy Collins, the director of Air Force security forces, said Thursday.
Collins described it as “a robust, mission-focused rehearsal training course designed to close the gaps identified with collective training, team cohesion and leadership core skill training rehearsals, battle drills and mission preparation.”
The course, implemented in fall 2020, was one of the immediate responses after the initial investigation by AFRICOM.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/03/10/new-security-training-and-oversight-after-2020-manda-bay-attack/
