Military bases in AFRICOM

Okay, I thought the whole thing about US Africa Command was that US military didn't have bases in Africa. So what's in Djibouti?

Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti (CLDJ) is located in the Horn of Africa and is the only U.S. military infrastructure located in Africa providing a base of operations geared toward building security, sovereignty, and stability in the region. When you arrive, you will see and hear the vibrant operational tempo that exists here day and night.
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The Camp supports approximately 2,500 U.S., joint and allied forces military and civilian personnel and U.S. Department of Defense contractors. Additionally, the base provides employment for approximately 1,200 local and third country nation workers. The Camp is the primary base of operations for U.S. Africa Command in the Horn of Africa and is home to Commander, Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa.

Learn something new every day. And I guess the moratorium against contractor services doesn't apply. Some real money being pumped into that forward operating base.

Comments

[John]

JTF-HOA at Camp Lemonier predates the founding of AFRICOM (still officially based in Stuttgart afaik) by at least 5 years, it used to be controlled by CENTCOM.
I think it is still considered a Navy base, with the Army only a tenant. Despite the money being spent, the task force will disappear when the mission is over and the French and the airstrip will remain.

I don't know where the extra "n" comes from, in 2003 all the signs spelled it Lemonier, not Lemonnier.

So that's old news, if you want to be proactive, ahem, you could read up on the Flintlock exercises held in Mali.