Marines and Sailors with Battalion Landing Team 1st
Summary
Marines and Sailors with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, make their way to a Navy Landing Craft Air-Cushion hovercraft in order to transit to the USS Iwo Jima after completing fast-rope training aboard the base here, May 12, 2012. The 24th MEU is in Jordan for Exercise Eager Lion 12, a multinational exercise designed to strengthen military-to-military relationships among partnered nations through scenario-based, realistic modern-day security challenges. The 24th MEU, partnered with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed to the U.S. Central Command area of operations as a theater reserve and crisis response force.
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Date
12/05/2012
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