U.S. helps Africa secure their own borders

In support of its mission to enable full spectrum operations while conducting sustained security engagements with African land forces, the training U.S. Army Africa is providing to different African nations is helping them secure their own borders as well as their own regions.

Maj. Albert Conley III, U.S. Army Africa's Counter-Terrorism desk officer for International Military Engagements, said that by U.S. Army Africa, known as USARAF, helping Africans solve African problems the U.S. doesn't need to get involved and whatever American interests are in that region or country will, as a secondary effect, be secure because USARAF is helping them with internal and external security.

"If Africans are solving African problems, that means the U.S. government won't need to use the United States Army to solve African problems," Conley said. "For example, by having a conglomerate of nations in the African Union going into Somalia to help fix that nation's problems means that American servicemen don't have to go into Somalia to help fix that problem."

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