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2017-12-17 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Law of the Jungle: US soldiers learning new skills for new threats

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Posted by Skidmark 2017-12-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

Posted by Jasing the Limber5475 2017-12-17 05:33|| 2017-12-17 05:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Want real jungle training? Panama, Fort Sherman, JOTC. Its a shame we closed that down. The jungle down there will kill you. Hopefully, these guys in Hawaii will reach back and get some history and learn from the previous JOTC.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-12-17 13:32|| 2017-12-17 13:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Bucket,
Speaking as a survivor of that horror of a training program, all I can say about the Darien is that literally everything that walks, crawls, creeps, grows or swims in that region is either poisonous or it want to eat you. We slept in trees and ate snakes and grubs. We killed an Ocelot for dinner one day and found out that those big hairy tree spiders taste like crab.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-12-17 20:50|| 2017-12-17 20:50|| Front Page Top

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