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Militants can sometimes spot and track drones that fly over land from the base at Camp Lemonier in Djibouti—something that will be more difficult at an island base.
U.S. Expands Drone Flights to Take Aim at East Africa Julian E. Barnes 2011
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Muhammad insisted we were from Camp Lemonier, the American military base.
Runners Jack Canfield 2010
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The U.S. expanded Camp Lemonier to five times its original size in 2006 and troops from all branches of the U.S. armed services "use the base when not working 'downrange' in countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia and Yemen."
Printing: U.S., NATO Expand Afghan War To Horn Of Africa And Indian Ocean 2010
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Muhammad insisted we were from Camp Lemonier, the American military base.
Runners Jack Canfield 2010
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For reasons that remain unclear, he was later flown to Camp Lemonier, a US military base in Djibouti, Somali intelligence sources say, and from there to a clandestine prison in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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The U.S. expanded Camp Lemonier to five times its original size in 2006 and troops from all branches of the U.S. armed services "use the base when not working 'downrange' in countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia and Yemen."
U.S., NATO Expand Afghan War To Horn Of Africa And Indian Ocean 2010
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AFRICOM is responsible for DoD personnel across the continent, both civilian and military, and for Camp Lemonier in the tiny East Africa nation of Djibouti.
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Congress allotted $100 million for improvements to Lemonier between 2007 and 2010.
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And until the acquisition of Camp Lemonier in Djibouti in early 2001, before September 11, there was no permanent U.S. military installation on the continent.
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Lemonier is the U. S.'s only established (and publicly acknowledged) base on the continent -- the Army calls it "infrastructure" to avoid offending African sensibilities -- and has about "2,400 military members and contract civilians assigned."
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