U.S. Army service members, assigned to Task Force Reaper, and U.K. Army service members, assigned to 2nd Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles, fire the M121 120mm mortar system as part of Eager Lion 2024 at Training Area 5, Jordan, May 13, 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. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Nataja Ford)