U.S. Marines with Headquarters Battery, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, take part in the Basic Jungle Skills Course at the Jungle Warfare Training Center aboard Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, from August 5-9, 2019. The BJSC is training event that encompasses the skills utilized in a basic jungle survival or combat environment.
(U.S. Marine Corps video by LCpl. Jacob Hancock)
Transcript
The purpose of the Basic Jungle Warfare Skills Training course is pretty much to get individual of the mindset of thinking tactical and adapting in a jungle environment. We’ve been pushing and fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, different kinds of places. It seems like the fight is pushing more to the jungle environment. So, we’re trying to get people in the mindset of how to operate out here in this different terrain, and the different skills they can apply.
[Soldier] Literally like this one.
[Soldier] Yeah, I think it’s left, right.
[Eddie] Within the first week, the students will get classes on jungle operations, jungle med, which one of our core men or IDC will teach. Then myself or another instructor will go over land navigation and the different rope techniques and how it all applies to being out in the jungle. Within this week course, we get into effects where they conduct PD operations and the final event. It puts the Marines in a situation where they have to know how to use what they applied in order to get over a obstacle or get a buddy out of a bad situation to prevent it from getting any worse at that point. So, they learned the skills and they are able to apply them in the jungle environment. That’s what it really pushes for.