U.S. Soldiers with the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa East Africa Response Force get into an Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Dec. 18, 2013. The EARF deployed to South Sudan supporting the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy. The U.S. State Department requested the assistance of U.S. military forces in evacuating personnel from the embassy in Juba, South Sudan, to Nairobi, Kenya, amid political and ethnic violence in South Sudan.