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Featured Video
Eager Lion 2012 Official Video
Exercise Eager Lion is part of a long history of multilateral military exercises in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan which includes 19 countries from five different continents and more than 11,000 participants. The focus of Eager Lion is to strengthen military-to-military relationships of participating partner nations through a joint, whole-of-government, multinational approach, integrating all instruments of national power to meet current and future complex national security challenges. Eager Lion 2012 has been in the planning phase for the past three years, and a similar exercise took place in Jordan in 2011. The exercise promotes cooperation and interoperability among participating forces, builds functional capacity, practices...
Video by Spc. Joshua Stoffregen | USSOCCENT | 05.28.2012
Recent Photos
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Tajikistan begins second round of health initiative; US...School nurses administer medication to young students following the second iteration of a nationwide intestinal parasite health initiative in Dushanbe, Tajikistan,...
Courtesy Photo | USSOCCENT | 09.25.2012
SOCCENT Civil Affairs provides clean water in TajikistanWomen in Nosir Bobo, Tajikistan fill containers with clean water which is now available for the first time. Civil Affairs soldiers from the SOCCENT Civil Military...
Courtesy Photo | USSOCCENT | 07.10.2012
Eager Lion 12 religious conference gives faith a forumLt. Col. Douglas Arendsee, Combined Joint Task Force Spartan Religious Support Team chaplain, speaks with attendees at a Table Top Exercise at Prince Hassan Academy...
Photo by Staff Sgt. Julius Clayton | USSOCCENT | 05.08.2012
1st SOSS airmen teach Tactical Combat Casualty CareCapt. Rob Clontz, Operational Support Medical Flight, 1st Special Operations Support Squadron, 1st Special Operations Wing, speaks in front of Jordanian medical staff...
Photo by Sgt. Nathan Booth | USSOCCENT | 05.19.2012
Coalition partners conduct capabilities demonstrationA Jordanian H-60 Black Hawk flies overhead with Combined Joint Task Force Spartan participants ready to fast rope onto a building in a mock village at King Abdullah...
Photo by Spc. Samantha Parks | USSOCCENT | 05.16.2012
Coalition forces train together at Eager Lion 12Displaced personnel begin a protest at the mock dislocated civilians camp May 18. The camp is run by Jordanian armed forces with Lebanese armed forces providing...
Photo by Spc. Samantha Parks | USSOCCENT | 05.17.2012
Recent Video
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Eager Lion 2012 Official VideoExercise Eager Lion is part of a long history of multilateral military exercises in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan which includes 19 countries from five different...
Video by Spc. Joshua Stoffregen | USSOCCENT | 05.28.2012
U.S. and Jordanian Soldiers Earn Jump WingsOn a field north of Amman, Jordan, U.S. and Jordanian Soldiers solidified their friendships with each other prior to participating in Exercise Eager Lion 12. Staff...
Video by Staff Sgt. Brian Vorhees | USSOCCENT | 05.10.2012
Recent News Stories
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Tajikistan begins second round of health initiative; US...Soldiers from the Special Operations Command Central Civil Military Support Element, in coordination with the Tajikistan Ministries of Health and Education, witnessed...
Courtesy Story | USSOCCENT | 09.28.2012
SOCCENT Civil Affairs provides clean water in TajikistanSoldiers from the Special Operations Command Central Civil Military Support Element, in coordination with the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe, officially transferred...
Courtesy Story | USSOCCENT | 07.10.2012
CMSAF visits Airmen in Jordan supporting exerciseBy U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Nicholas Mercurio AMMAN, Jordan – Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Roy and his Jordanian counterpart, Mowafaq Mohammad...
Courtesy Story | USSOCCENT | 05.19.2012
1st SOSS airmen teach Tactical Combat Casualty CareAirmen from the Operational Support Medical Flight, 1st Special Operations Support Squadron, 1st Special Operations Wing, traveled to the National Emergency Medical...
Story by Sgt. Nathan Booth | USSOCCENT | 05.19.2012
Coalition forces train together at Eager Lion 12Conflict arose when Redland invaded Blueland, displacing more than 75 personnel in the Jabal Petra area. Then came a threat of possible insurgent attacks and...
Story by Spc. Samantha Parks | USSOCCENT | 05.17.2012
Eager Lion commanders hold press conference
Maj. Gen. Awni El-Edwan, Jordanian Armed Forces operations and training chief of staff, and U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Ken Tovo, Combined Joint Task Force Spartan commanding...
Courtesy Story | USSOCCENT | 05.16.2012
Maj. Gen. Awni El-Edwan, Jordanian Armed Forces operations and training chief of staff, and U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Ken Tovo, Combined Joint Task Force Spartan commanding...
Courtesy Story | USSOCCENT | 05.16.2012
