Two American trainers have been killed and a third wounded in an exchange of gunfire at the gates of an air base in southern Jordan, the military said.
It was not immediately clear what prompted the shooting.
The shots were fired as a car carrying the trainers tried to enter the al-Jafr base near the town of Mann, said the military. A Jordanian officer was also wounded.
The US Embassy in the Jordanian capital Amman said it had received reports about a security incident involving US personnel and that it was in touch with Jordanian authorities.
Pro-Western Jordan is a key member of the US-led military coalition against the extremist Islamic State group, which controls parts of neighbouring Iraq and Syria.
Jordan also faces homegrown extremism, with hundreds of Jordanians fighting alongside IS militants in Iraq and Syria and several thousand more supporting the extremist group in the kingdom.
Last November, a Jordanian police captain opened fire in an international police training facility, killing two Americans and three others. The government subsequently portrayed the police captain as troubled.
The US has spent millions of dollars to help the kingdom fortify its borders. For the West, any sign of instability in Jordan would be of great concern.
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