The course is part of a schedule to train soldiers for battle and exercises on terrain that looks more like nations and islands in the Pacific than arid Afghanistan and the deserts of the Middle East. Gen. Stephen Michael, deputy commander of the 25th Infantry Division, said the Army set up the faculty as its own footprint was shrinking in Iraq and Afghanistan after more than a decade of warfare in those nations. […] jungle training lost priority in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks as the Army focused on troops to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. […] fighting and living in tropical rain forests has caught the Army’s curiosity again. It had instructors.
source http://www.tnbearhunters.com/us-soldiers-train-for-jungle-warfare/
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