A crane lowers a Humvee from the Maritime Prepositioning Fleet ship USNS Sgt. William R. Button during an MPF offload exercise in support of Exercise Eager Lion 12 here, May 7, 2012. Marines and sailors from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group assisted the Combined Forces Maritime Component Command, or CFMCC, during the exercise as part of their current deployment to the U.S. Central Command area of operations as a theater reserve and crisis response force. Eager Lion is a recurring, multinational exercise designed to strengthen military-to-military relationships among partnered nations through scenario-based, realistic modern-day security challenges.