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Special Forces from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and members of the Australian Defense Force's (ADF) Army have finished the two-month long “KASANGGA 2022-1” bilateral exercise which effectively enhanced the interoperability of the two units, the military disclosed Saturday, July 2. (

Channel to its tensions heightened between the u.s. and north korea the pentagon is stepping up its preparations for a potential war in asia. by sending soldiers to train in the remote rainforest of hawaii. the soldiers are learning fighting and survival techniques by the first jungle training set up by the army in decades. jonathan hunt takes us to the story. >> as dawn broke reported a blackhawk helicopter for a spectacular journey across the rain forest that we will be dropped in 320 soldiers...

Channel to its tensions heightened between the u.s. and north korea the pentagon is stepping up its preparations for a potential war in asia. by sending soldiers to train in the remote rainforest of hawaii. the soldiers are learning fighting and survival techniques by the first jungle training set up by the army in decades. jonathan hunt takes us to the story. >> as dawn broke reported a blackhawk helicopter for a spectacular journey across the rain forest that we will be dropped in 320 soldiers...

Jong un. the training is happening in hawaii and we havent seen these kinds of exercises in decades. chief correspondent jonathan hunt has more. >> reported a black hawk helicopter for a spectacular journey across the rain forest before being dropped in. joining soldiers here in hawaii many of them veterans of the campaigns in iraq and afghanistan learning to fight in very different kind of war. >> the goal is to be able to teach the skills to survive in a jungle environment. >> no one in the 25...

>> the goal is to be able to teach the skills that students can survive in a jungle environment. >> is every vietnam vet knows, the jungle itself is not an easy enemy to conquer, and the only . >> the loud rumble is perhaps the most familiar from the desert and urban wars of the u.s. have been fighting. here it is the sound of soldiers moving in almost total silence. save for the soft thud of their boots on the ground. >> it so restrictive. everything is so tight. you can -- in iraq and afghanis...

Being dropped in. joining soldiers who have fought in iraq and afghanistan, learning to fight a very different kind of war. >> the goal is to be able to teach the skills that students can survive, fight and win in a jungle environment. >> as every vietnam vet knows the jungle is not an easy enemy to conquer. the only way to do it is on foot. the loud rumble of humvees is the most familiar sound from the desert and urban wars weve been fighting. here is the sound of soldiers moving in total silen...

Inconsistency in the sense that they look at the terrain, they look at libya and they say you know what, our equipment, our planes, our big weapons, theyll work there. we can actually beat back what gadhafi is trying to do with the technology we can bring to this, whereas they may look at an african country, jungle environment, a vietnam type environment, and say we are not successful in that kind of environment, so were not going in. >> i think theres an element of that. i think the more import...

Planes, our big weapons, theyll work there. we can actually beat back what gadhafi is trying to do with the technology we can bring to this, whereas they may look at an african country, jungle environment, a vietnam type environment, and say we are not successful in that kind of environment, so were not going in. >> i think theres an element of that. i think the more important element is the question how the local people will react. if we were to go to yemen or where you have a nasty dictator, t...