US EditionPentagon sends ground forces to train in Panama’s jungle for first time in decades
- American Marines and soldiers began jungle training in Panama this fall, their first time in over two decades, as part of the new Combined Jungle Operations Training Course.
- The program includes survival techniques and combat tactics through a 21-day course with American and Panamanian forces.
- Panama has previously been a training site for U.S. forces since 1916, which included a formal Jungle Operations Training Center.
- Colonel Ada Cotto noted that the current program adds tactics and jungle tracking to earlier survival training.
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The U.S. Department of War would have begun sending ground forces to conduct training in the Panama jungle, for the first time in decades, ABC reports this Monday.
DOBLE LLAVE – The U.S. War Department would have begun sending ground forces to conduct trainings in the Panama jungle, for the first time in decades, ABC reported Monday. According to a Pentagon official, Washington has sent U.S. soldiers and marines to complete a training program at the Christopher Columbus Air Force Base that, although it is relatively small in scope for now, is expected to intensify in 2026. The course, which began earlier t…
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