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if our soldiers were to deploy tomorrow

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to an area where a general environment

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is pertinent , then the only training

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that they have is gonna be our jungle

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school . They're going to have to rely

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on what they know and take that forward

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and be able to survive . Fight and win

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in the jungle . So different phases of

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the candidates go through for training

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and start off with crawl walk run phase .

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Crawl phase is gonna be your

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introduction not the combat water

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survival assessment . They do the

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Jungle five K . They do their land

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navigation basically practical skills

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that show us that they can get through

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the harder stuff throughout the course ,

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making sure that they're not gonna

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drown in the water that they are in

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shape enough to be able to rock . And

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then we kind of transition over to the

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survival phase . We're talking about

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tracking , we dive deep into a man of

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combat tracking , we dive deep into

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waterborne operations and then the

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survival classes . So after survival

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classes then they get a survival

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practical exercise for an extended

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period of time . And then that's kind

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of the second phase . And the third

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phase , of course , is where we tie

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everything together And they go out to

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the jungle and they do a three day

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culminating exercise that finishes with

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the green mile and that's moving

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through Gulch is through up and down

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ridgelines through the water , tying in

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rope systems . They cover roughly 30

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miles in the three days throughout the

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jungle . Right in my opinion , the most

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important aspect of General Operations

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training course , as far as the

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instruction goes and what the course

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provides is the students having to

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endure the conditions that are that the

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junk provide them their underweight ,

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their wet there , not comfortable and

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they are moving through terrain that

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they've never encountered in their life ,

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no matter where they've been stationed

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at before , or potentially to play that

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before and so it opens their eyes as to

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how slaves to move from place to place

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and the amount of effort that it takes

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to get to where you want to go . This

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course is very important as a force

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multiplier because the more jungle

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qualified students that we have , where

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soldiers or airmen are D . O . D .

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Personnel wide that can come through

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here , the more experts at those

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commanders and senior leaders are going

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to have when we go take the fight to

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the enemy in a jungle environment if

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that day arises .