A Soldier poses for a photo with an officer in the Chinese military after exchanging patches. Nearly 200 members of Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa ran alongside 2,500 Djiboutian, Chinese, and coalition service members and civilians during the 15k ( mile) race across a stretch of Djibouti’s Grand Bara Desert, Dec. 13.

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