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An Army Reserve officer, who is also a defense attorney with his own law practice in Dallas, Texas, and a commercial airline pilot for Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA), Atlanta, Ga., is now in Africa, executing the plan that he prepared to train the Senegal Army in peacekeeping. COL Christopher Gallavan and his staff are now conducting the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI) Brigade Training in Dakar, Senegal. ACRI, a U.S. presidential initiative managed by the Department of State (DoS), trains various African states to create highly effective, rapidly deployable peacekeeping units, which can operate jointly in the event of a humanitarian crisis or a traditional peacekeeping operation.
The Senegalese training that Colonel Gallavan and other ACRI planners designed is the first effort to train a brigade staff to coordinate the efforts of multiple peacekeeping battalions.
U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) was designated executive agent for ACRI, viewed as the key tool in shaping the African environment by promoting professional apolitical militaries, a respect for human rights, and the role of a military in democracy. The USEUCOM area of responsibility includes most...