British Armed Forces Brigadier Marcus Mudd, 4th Light Brigade Combat Team commander, and Combined Forces Land Component Commander for Exercise African Lion conducts and interview with international media in a combined joint special operations task force operations center in Agadir, Morocco, June 22, 2022, during African Lion 22. African Lion 2022 is U.S. Africa Command's largest, premier, joint, annual exercise hosted by Morocco, Ghana, Senegal and Tunisia, June 6 - 30. More than 7,500 participants from 28 nations and NATO train together with a focus on enhancing readiness for U.S. and partner nation forces. AL22 is a joint all-domain, multi-component, and multinational exercise, employing a full array of mission capabilities with the goal to strengthen interoperability among participants and set the theater for strategic access.