After years of fighting in the desert, US Marines are now enhanced skills honed jungle warfare training intensity increasing to implement a strategy to Asia rotation axis.
US Marines in Okinawa workout, Japan - Photo: US Marines
As information was given, force US marines are preparing plans to cooperate with the military training in Vietnam as soon as possible when the two sides find a common voice. This policy is part of the force's overall strategic "pivot to Asia swing" of the Washington government.
According to Marine Corps Times magazine, in the face of more and more troops are being deployed to tropical areas like the Philippines, Honduras and Australia, force the US Marine Corps has decided to increase the number of soldiers in the Armed Services must undergo training in the jungle.
The goal: to face China
Lieutenant Martin Harris, a spokesman for Marine Forces Expeditionary III of the US, said in the past two years, each year more than 5,000 US marines to attend training camp in the jungle warfare of the Armed Services are located in Okinawa Prefecture (Japan) - an increase of approximately 30% compared to before.
In 2015, when Major General Richard Simcock took over the command of Division 3 US Marines stationed in Japan, he has made no secret intention is to improve the ability of forests to combat soldiers under.
Now, more and more of these Marines are rotated to Japan under the program implemented by the US unit was sent to the training camp. Here, they attend training courses and long-term test combat skills on the harsh terrain with high humidity typical of the tropical jungle.
Practicing skills in rescue teammates harsh environments - Photo: US Marines
According to the Marine Corps Times, preparing for Marine Corps troops can operate in such conditions is a policy in harmony with the rotating shaft to the Asia - Pacific region by force.
Because the US ally fears increasingly exposed before the rise of China and a series of activities to build its illegal Island in the East Sea, forces US Marines had planned to close 15 % its number of troops on the island of Hawaii, and even further in the next few years.
Colonel Michael Kuhn, deputy commander of Division 3 US Marines, the unit responsible for operational warfare training camp in the forest, emphasizing the Marine Corps Times newspaper: "We need to be able to fight any Armed including his unique is - the infantry and non-infantry - all of us will have to be able to fight in the jungle environment. "
The improved training
US forces currently open three training in warfare training camp in the forest: a basic course lasts 5 days, a course "Skills jungle" lasted for 12 days, and a key "Find traces in forest "lasted 14 days.
Training courses have been adjusted more than the time long ago, respectively 3 days, 5 days, and 8 days for each session. Colonel Michael Kuhn explains this adjustment is to help soldiers have more time to put into practice their skills learned.
According to the deputy commander, teacher training projects of the Center are leaders Marines review and adjustment, which added many difficult situations a new coach.
"We calibrated so that training programs more closely with the mission that Marines will have to execute in combat conditions in the jungle," the officer said.
"We have also enhanced the training sessions at night because we knew we would have to have the ability to fight in low light conditions and at night."
Colonel Michael Kuhn, deputy commander of Division 3 US Marines
US Marines set to eat animals in the forest during a workout in Thailand - Reuters
Basic training course is designed for non-infantry unit being, in which Marines are learning about the characteristics of jungle along the patrol exercises, helicopter landings, and orientation on the land, Colonel Kuhn revealed.
12-day training course taught the infantry units in the jungle warfare methods, which focus on training the infantry companies conducting reconnaissance patrols and ending with a patrol exercises lasted four day, according to the officer.
Marines infantry or infantry under must complete a course for testing the strength longer than 6km, which the soldiers must pass dozens of obstacles, including a crawl through mud puddles and muddy wriggled beneath the plexiglas plate dangling simulated explosive traps.
Just a soldier touched one of her glass, all his teammates in a radius of five meters are "sacrifice" and to overcome obstacles from the beginning.
Exercise in the woods full of hardships - Photo: US Marines
The training is the trail in the woods 14 days to equip the squad leader positioning methods enemies in the forest, comes as many tests locate targets in many different distances. Soldiers also learn principles of dynamics behind each footprint with the skills and anti-tracking fabricated.
"Very long ago, the majority of the task force's Marines were conducted in the forest or in the tropics", Colonel Kuhn explained. "Now when the ground forces in the Middle East does not much more and we have shifted the focus slightly to the mission in the Pacific, the fighting capacity building in the forest is extremely important. "
US Marines are also developing bulk troops to Central America, where drug gangs and gang violence has forced tens of thousands of underprivileged migrant children fled to the US border. The soldiers training with local soldiers uninterrupted for years in the jungle in the mountains.
"After more than a decade stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marines need to be better prepared to operate in this environment," Colonel Michael Kuhn, deputy commander of the 3rd Division Marines US units responsible for operational warfare training camp in the jungle, said. Thank you for leaving valuable comments
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