{"id":393857,"date":"2017-06-02T12:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T12:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/02\/ghana-armed-forces-train-us-counterparts-in-jungle-warfare\/"},"modified":"2017-06-02T12:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T12:41:11","slug":"ghana-armed-forces-train-us-counterparts-in-jungle-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/02\/ghana-armed-forces-train-us-counterparts-in-jungle-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Armed Forces train US counterparts in jungle warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Scores of soldiers from the United States of America have been schooled in jungle warfare by Ghanaian instructors at the Jungle Warfare School at the Achiase military base in Akim Oda.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A total of 63 soldiers comprised of US Forces aligned with US Army Africa spent last week at the Ghana Armed Forces training facility where they were trained by African instructors for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Brigadier General Kenneth Moore, USARAF deputy commander, said that having U.S. soldiers taught by African instructors was \u201ckind of a ground-breaking event\u201d that like much of what USARAF does, was intended to build partnerships and relationships with African militaries.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it contributes to Army readiness,\u201d said Moore, after watching the soldiers in an improvised river crossing. \u201cExposing them to something they don\u2019t normally train in is an Army priority in leadership training,\u201d he said. \u201cThe soldiers\u2019 morale is very high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Young said that the course, which taught jungle navigation, ambush offence and defence tactics, and survival tactics, was \u201ceye-opening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The instructors, he said, \u201ctreat everything we do as if it\u2019s life or death because when you are in the jungle environment, it really is. You constantly have to be very vigilant&#8230; otherwise, the jungle environment will eat you up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The school was a highlight of USARAF\u2019s annual Central Accord series of training African troops for peacekeeping missions throughout the continent. It followed on last year\u2019s exercise that sent two platoons of soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division through a French-run jungle warfare course in Gabon.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2ndse.jpg\"\/><br \/>Interestingly, one of the 63 soldiers, Spc. Bryan Young, with the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division who took the course, said in a videotaped interview that they ate a python which was &#8220;extremely spicy&#8221; during the excercise.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. troops have not engaged in sustained jungle warfare since Vietnam. Jungle training was nearly phased out after the conflict, but it now seems to be on an upswing. The Army\u2019s 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii set up a jungle school in 2013 as its footprint was shrinking in Iraq and Afghanistan. And in 2014, U.S. Marines, whose 3rd Marine Division has a Jungle Warfare Training Center in Okinawa, Japan, made news as they learned how to catch cobras, drink their blood and behead chickens with their teeth as part of a jungle warfare exercise in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Second Lt. Hugh Smith said in his interview that the humidity and heat in the tropical Ghanian jungle \u2014 over 100 degrees Fahrenheit \u2014 was a major challenge on its own. \u201cYou hear the stories of the guys in Vietnam and the Pacific during World War II who were fighting in jungles &#8230; and how miserable and terrible it is, but it\u2019s hard to really understand exactly how miserable and terrible it was until you get out here in the jungle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone will forget this experience, to be honest with you,\u201d said Sgt. 1st Class Eric Kramer. \u201cIt\u2019s too real, just the threat, the spiders, insects, getting lost in the jungle, hydrating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Smith said he was glad that the Ghanaians \u201cweren\u2019t taking it easy on us or letting us slack or getting away with anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thirdxes.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>But Major Jacob Codjoe, the Ghanian course commander, promised to make it even harder next time.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will remove the human face and then make it more tougher for them so that they can see the reality of how things are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Still, Codjoe said, the U.S. soldiers had been game. \u201cTheir teamwork has been very great. I have really enjoyed the way they have been very sober to the instructors and the instructors have done really well cooperating with them, very well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Young said that besides learning about jungle warfare on what was his first trip outside the U.S., he\u2019d also learned life lessons.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s taught me that everything can be a little worse,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t              <!-- new position --><br \/>\n          <!-- new position end -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of soldiers from the United States of America have been schooled in jungle warfare by Ghanaian instructors at the Jungle Warfare School at the Achiase military base in Akim Oda. &#13; A total of 63 soldiers comprised of US Forces aligned with US Army Africa spent last week at the Ghana Armed Forces training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana Armed Forces train US counterparts in jungle warfare - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/02\/ghana-armed-forces-train-us-counterparts-in-jungle-warfare\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghana Armed Forces train US counterparts in jungle warfare - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Scores of soldiers from the United States of America have been schooled in jungle warfare by Ghanaian instructors at the Jungle Warfare School at the Achiase military base in Akim Oda. &#013; 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