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The men on the ground believe that what they're doing is they're creating an army so the United States military, the regular military, the tanks, helicopters, guns, and parachutes types of guys

don't have to put boots on the ground in Africa. College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts, Matthew Gull. And I'm Jason Fields.

A report dated a few years ago said U.S. Special Forces were operating in more than 90 countries.

Recently, we learned one of those was Niger Africa. And the only reason the public knows anything

about it is because of four fatalities among the US troops involved in the fight.

This week we're going to talk about what happened in what America's military is

doing in Africa.

Joining us are former Green Bereay and current soft rap.com reporter Derek Gannon,

as well as show favorite Joseph Trevithic, who's been following America's wars in Africa

for years and currently reports on them for the drive.com.

Okay, so let's get the basics out of the way. Derek, we'll start with you. What happened?

So basically what happened what we know and what we found out over at software at pretty much within a couple hours of the incident was at a Green Bereting that was there in the chair during on a J-set or a joint combined training exercise with the Nigerian government

and military.

We're assigned to about 30 Nigerian special troops out of an intelligence brigade out of the Nizharian military and they

were in the southwest region of Nizhir in Natilla Berry region just outside of a village

called Tongo Tongo. Now their mission initially was to

basically find ground intelligence. I'm going to use that word very specifically on a

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