Welcome to the jungle: Meet the New York Guardsmen who took on Brazil's infamous jungle warfare school

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Welcome to the jungle: Meet the New York Guardsmen who took on Brazil's infamous jungle warfare school

Since 2019, a handful of soldiers and airmen from the New York National Guard have traveled deep into Brazil’s Amazon rainforest to take on a jungle warfare course widely viewed as among the world’s toughest military schools. Two airmen from the New York Air Guard’s 105th Airlift Wing’s Base Defense Group completed the course in November, the fifth set of New York Guardsmen to graduate since 2019. Though other U.S. units, including Army Special …