A Green Beret with 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) sights in his M-4 carbine rifle during Eager Lion 24 at King Abdullah II Operations Training Center near Amman, Jordan, May 11, 2024. Eager Lion 24 is a multilateral exercise, with 33 participating nations, hosted by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, designed to exchange military expertise, and improve interoperability among partner nations, and considered the capstone of a broader U.S. military relationship with the Jordanian Armed Forces. Jordan is one of U.S. Central Command’s strongest and most reliable partners in the Levant sub-region. (Photo has been altered for security purposes.