Jungle Warfare

Basic Essential Survival Techniques

Certain Jungle Skills are Required

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If you are going to enter any jungle or rain forest in the world then it is advisable that you read this page first. Getting lost is one of the greast problems; and that is easy to do?

Survival in the jungle means understanding that environment, its dangers and resources, and having the correct skills and the right equipment to deal with them.

To avoid getting lost, radio communications, a compass and map reading skills are vital. The body must be kept healthy by having adequate clean water to prevent dehydration in the jungle's heat and humidity.

Medical supplies are required to combat diseases and infections. The correct clothing will also help to protect the body from cuts and bites. A jungle hat is advisable, as is a long sleeved shirt and long trouses tucked into jungle boots. All dark green preferrably; you don't want to make it too obvious that you new to that environment.

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The Royal Marines Commandos are highly respected in all types of warfare; for their professionalism and ability to inspire; and for them the Jungle is no different.

For the Commandos, additional skills are needed, to avoid detection or to set up an ambush, they must blend into the environment, and be able to move quietly and to redevelope their senses of sight, hearing and smell.

While leaving no trace of their presence e.g. burying all rubbish or not disturbing the foliage more than they need to, and they most certainly must not disturb the fallen leaves with their phosphorous underneath.

They must also look for tracks and signs of the enemies presence - it is a silent and deadly game of cat and mouse.

Jungle Hazards

The jungle presents its own unique problems for anyone entering its world. The vegetation can be so dense (Usually secondary jungle) in places that a way through can only be hacked step by step, using a machete.

It is easy to get lost and whole armies can be hidden. The intense heat and humidity can sap away any strength. Disease and infection can be caused by plagues of insects, leeches and contaminated water.

During the monsoon season, rivers can become impassible, the ground turns to mud and living conditions are very difficult.

The jungle can be a frightening experience to the newcomer, particularly at night. The pitch blackness, the strange sounds and movements or fear of an enemy creeping around, can have a powerful effect.

You need to keep your boots on all of the time, only taking them off to wash your feet or change your socks. Should you take them off and leave them for only a short while, then you will have to check your boots before you put them back on. If something has crawled into your jungle boot, sometimes, shaking the boot will not get it out, you will have to put your hand inside to make sure it is clear to put on.

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Exist like an animal

When you are involved with jungle warfare then you have to live like the animals there; if you want to survive like they do. That means you don't ever wash using soap, and if you do, you must only wash with water and you clean your teeth likewise.

Colours are the natural warning signs to the creatures who live theere in the jungle; you do not eat any fruit that is red unless you know that it is edible.

Insects or any other creature if it has black and yellow stripes, then avoid it by all means, unless you know exactly what the species is; these are the basics to start with, if you don't know this much; you shouldn't be there.

The people that live there have exceptional senses which they use very effectively. Visitors have all of their senses diminished by modern living. A person might believe their hearing is good; but it won't be compared to the native's highly sensitive hearing. He will hear every sound; even the faintest, he will also know what that sound is; and where it came from. Visitors won't have a clue whether they hear the sound or not.

Eyesight, natives have the natural vision of an animal. When they stare at the jungle they will see through the spaces between the branches of the bushes and trees. The visitor will only see the wood of the trees that are in front of those spaces. Binoculars can assist you to see what the native sees naturally.

Smell is all important in the jungle a visitor will never match the sensitive nose of the natives who live there; their senses are unbelievably acute.

A visitor washing with soap or cleaning their teeth with tooth paste will not notice a bubble flowing down a stream. The bubble could by chance travel some distance; when that bubble breaks the perfume trapped inside is released into the air. A native can smell that foreign odour; 1,000 meters away from where it burst. And if you smoke; then everybody there will know exactly where you are.

The visitor will need at least a compass, a native knows where he is by the terrain he is in. He does not need anything his instincts will guide him where he wants to travel. While he is moving through the jungle to his destination in daylight; at approximately every twenty paces he might snap off a sapling at waist high, he will leave it pointing in the direction he is going. Should he want to do a return trip at night, then he could find his way with the help of the saplings.

The natives leave clues that stand-out to them; but we would never recognise them without specific training from a native; and unless you befriend a native; he will never tell you. I have, that is why I know this is true.

The Unseen Enemy

Micro-orgasims, invisible to the naked eye, thrive in the hot, moist conditions of the tropics. These viruses, bacteria, protozoa and worms live in contaminated water, food and the air.

They cause the deadly diarrhoeal diseases of cholera, dysentry, giardiasis and the respiratory disease of TB.

Even simple problems like a skin scratch can easily become infected with bacteria.

In tropical countries, infectious diseases cause more than 40% of all deaths (compared to 8% in the developed world).

It was Louis Pasteur, the great French chemist and microbiologist who proved that infections and disease are spread by micro-organisms in the air.

The Anopheles Mosquito

The most dangerous animal in the world lives in the Tropics it is the Anopheles Mosquito. This tiny insect carries Malaria.

Someone dies of malaria every 10 seconds. In Africa one million children die every year.

Over 2 Billion people live under the threat of malaria in 103 countries.

445 million people live in areas where there is no control. When the Anopheles Mosquito sucks blood it also transmits the parasites that cause malaria.

Mosquitos also carry other diseases: including 'elephantiasis' with more than 79 million people infected. 'Yellow Fever' and 'Dengue' a break-bone fever.

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