Marine Corps Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, right, commander of Africa Command, shakes hands with Chief of General Staff of the Djibouti Armed Forces Gen. Zakaria Cheik Ibrahim at a training base in Djibouti, March 21, 2019. While in Djibouti, Waldhauser observed the ongoing growth and development of the Rapid Intervention Battalion, the Djiboutian army’s elite military force, which the is in the process of training and equipping at the request of the Djiboutian government.

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