 Sailors and Marines from the Keir Sarge Amphibious Ready Group, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Expeditionary Strike Group 5 kicked off Exercise Eager Lion 2013 in Aquaba, Jordan. For Expeditionary Strike Group 5 Commander, Rear Admiral Bill Lesher, the exercise has a lot to accomplish. For our goals for Eager Lion include, number one, executing the plan we've put together safely and professionally with tremendous discipline and that's something this team does very well. We've seen it with the leadership you have on San Antonio and then more broadly with the leadership in the Oregon, the Mu and the ESG and Marcent Forward. Exercise Eager Lion 2013 is an annual multinational exercise designed to strengthen military to military relationships and enhance security and stability in the region by responding to realistic modern day security scenarios. Gunshot wound! Gunshot wound! San Antonio has been up in the Gulf of Aquaba doing the ship for shore movement, flying the 53's off, integrating a shore with the Mu elements from the other ships, it's varsity level operations. In addition to the teamwork between Navy and the Marine Corps, the exercise builds teamwork internationally. Eager Lion is one of our theater security cooperation exercises and so it achieves a fundamental objective of developing the capacity of the partner nations we work with in this area of responsibility and it develops relationships as well. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Amara Timberlake.