A Marine with Alpha Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, discusses shooting tactics with an Italian special operations member on a live-fire training range here, May 15, during Exercise Eager Lion 12. Eager Lion 12 is taking place throughout the month of May and is designed to strengthen military-to-military relationships of more than 19 participating partner nations. This is the second major exercise for the 24th MEU who, along with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed to the U.S Central Command area of operations as a theater security and crisis response force.