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Originally Posted by AnimeFan188
U.S. Expands Secretive Drone Base for African Shadow War:
"The Pentagon’s secretive drone and commando base in the Horn of Africa is
getting a lot bigger and a lot busier as the U.S. doubles down on its shadowy
campaign of air strikes, robot surveillance and Special Operation Forces raids in
the terror havens of Yemen and Somalia.
Camp Lemonnier, originally a French colonial outpost in Djibouti, a tiny,
impoverished nation just north of Somalia, has been the epicenter of America’s
Indian Ocean shadow war since just after 9/11. What was once little more than a
run-down compound adjacent to Djibouti city’s single-runway international airport
is now a sprawling complex of hangars and air-conditioned buildings housing
eight Predator drones and eight F-15E fighter-bombers plus other warplanes, as
well as around 300 Special Operations Forces and more than 2,000 other U.S.
troops and civilians.
According to an investigation by The Washington Post, the Pentagon is spending
$1.4 billion to expand the base’s airplane parking and living facilities. The extra
housing could accommodate another 800 commandos, the Post reports. The
military is also adding new lighting to a emergency landing strip a few miles from
Camp Lemonnier — an urgent precaution as more and more planes and drones
pack onto the main base’s sole runway."
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Good lord, they're expanding Camp Lemonnier AGAIN? which direction are they gonna expand to? lol
I pity the ppl who have to live in the expanded area, it's gonna be one long-ass walk just to get to the chow hall, and, well, just about everywhere...