This assistance was publicly stated to take the form of drone-based airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations, as well as providing training and capacity building assistance to the Cameroonian military. In October of 2015, President Obama notified the US Congress that he had deployed 90 US soldiers to Cameroon, with the consent of the Government of Cameroon, in advance of an anticipated total deployment of 300 soldiers to support the counter-Boko Haram effort. Public reporting indicated that the US military conducted UAV-centric intelligence collection operations from a base in Garoua, Cameroon, and continued to provide training assistance to the Cameroonian military. Furthermore, while not publicly acknowledged by the United States, reporting indicates that troops in the region had also conducted an undetermined amount of “direct action” raids by US Special Forces. The scope and scale of these operations are unavailable, but received coverage in a variety of American press outlets.