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newly developed clothing and equipment could stand up under such rugged conditions you see that's what we do in my branch of R&D research and development we test everything under all kinds of conditions you think I'd have learned by now learned what Joe never to volunteer for nothing this is just gonna be a little walk yeah yeah yeah you look at that stuff down there so that you couldn't stick a pin in it that's the idea of this mission we're running we can't stick a pin in it we want to see if we can stick you in it you know such if I ever get to be a size down there what's the matter what's a great big lion down there he had his mouth open was waving his paw go on you helicopter put us down in a small clearing and we stood and watched it go until it had disappeared from sight the jungle hemmed us in on all sides thick and green and dark it had a smell that caught at the nostrils cloying smell of constant decay it had a sound to not one but a million sounds all blending and laughing together this was our enemy then 40 treacherous miles all right man the plane's gone as of now we're on our own we're a patrol whose enemy is a jungle how well and how quickly we lick it is important you all know your jobs you all know the individual records you to keep your equipment other than that let's keep our eyes open and stay on the wall any questions Marata lieutenant are the natives friendly I understand they're very vicious and a special delicacy with him is fried marata well well be seeing no natives anything else okay then let's get moving butler convulsion of myself to take the point sergeant ward will hold on the rear only ill since your radio and you are only contact with the outside you'll be middleman the rest of you fall in we cut our way eastward the heat was like a thick wet blanket which made the body feel heavy and the breath quickened a special repellent one of the many items we were testing kept the swarms of insects away from us and despite heat and the density of the jungle we made good progress and camp that night on dry ground oh my aching back trouble Joseph I just saw a pair of eyes looking at me from over there biggest headlights never a new Cadillac yeah you guys all set you might bring us an eye cap yeah I'll do that probably get some rain during the night make sure you don't get washed away hey serge how about you carry me tomorrow my feet height why Marata you're in your element oh yeah I knew there was something I wanted to tell you you got guard from 2400 to 0400 for me that's right buddy gotta get some sack time you'll relieve waters suppose one one of those animals eats me up huh he'll get into gestion now knock it off and get some sleep we got a big day tomorrow how do you like that doesn't bother me a bit oh let's hit it how's it going butler just so long as we're not in a hurry so I kind of thick eh keep telling myself there must be an easier way through this how's Marata doing boy is found a home hey Marata stop trying to convince those monkeys you're one of them yeah I'm just standing they get this thing off of me will you must be 25 30 feet long trouble sergeant no trouble no lieutenant snake was all set to jump Marata but we're here so I'm just in time nice going butler yeah Jim thanks I think I better sit down the heat you know I'd say this is a pretty good example of why we got to stay on our toes every minute will you look at the size of that thing and him you want to look good Joe okay you too fall back with the main group sergeant Ward I'll take the point with Rodriguez let's get moving the looks of things we got some more rain look forward don't straggler keep moving close it up hey would somebody tell me what the big hurry is we're gonna get out of this no matter how far we go ten I want to get off this low ground before dark lame brain maybe you like sleeping underwater yeah just a little afternoon shower that's all all afternoon we're lucky we got this open plane to move across well we got ahead not only jungle but mountains made camp that second night on the brow of a low lying hill on the edge of the plane we've been lucky in that for a lower maps indicated the plane they did not accurately show how wide it was so even though the going was slow in the rain at least we got a rest from the jungle the forest lay not only the jungle but it ran thickly over mountainous terrain the going ahead was gonna be much tougher well I guess that just about does it so far as anyone got any complaints that is with respect to equipment yeah lieutenant mine's too heavy Marata shut up was only answering a direct question I'll tell you what Marata if your equipment's too heavy why don't you leave it here when we start out tomorrow travel life no machete no carbine no full no special repellent you can even take those jungle boots off and go barefoot anybody else oh Neil how's the radio holding up I've been keeping it in the case lieutenant good as new well hope we can keep it there everyone except Marata feel okay considering everything I'd say we were in good shape the going will be slower and tougher till we get over this range ahead after that we should be used to it don't say Marata how do you like that I don't even open my mouth this guy has his foot hey Joe tell us what it's like to charm a snake lieutenant it's sheer clear for but that ravine down through there how far did you go about a mile came to a rise as far as we could see in this rain nothing but cliffs I guess we're lucky we've got the ravine to go down here I guess you could say that 300 feet down a gulch that's practically a waterfall we got enough rope so it shouldn't be too hard we'll make one end fast up here and everyone can use it to guide them down we may need the rope later on lieutenant we can't afford to lose it I know I'll come down last and bring it down with me you can't do that sir you won't have anything to hold on to sergeant I come from a long line of mountain go 300 feet down a winding tricky gulch half full of rushing water even with a rope to hold on to it was mighty ticklish every foot of the way on the lieutenant expected to do it without the rope I couldn't figure I was about halfway down with O'Neill a few feet above me when he suddenly turned I don't know what's the matter nothing trying to make sure I don't get the radio under this water butter use both hands yeah I'm okay don't worry off a slippery right there I know why did you strap that thing on your back easier to carry on a strap you better swing around hold on hold on never mind that hold on to this rope before we follow it on the lieutenant came down that ravine without a rope to guide him I'll never know when he joined us we took stock of ourselves and then moved slowly on cutting our way across the floor of a rain soaked jungle valley but now as we moved it was with the realization that all contact with the outside had been taken from us O'Neill will you stop blaming yourself accidents happen yeah but if I'd only strapped it to my back there's no good in dwelling on what you might have done hadn't been forgotten that things might have been a lot worse just thank you lucky stars you're in one piece but now I'll contact what of it man we can take care of ourselves now we can't have the luxury of knowing if we got in a spot we could call for help this way we're completely on our own aren't we Marotta yeah yeah yeah sure ain't nothing I like better than being on my own let's knock it off and get some sag time it's been a rough day tomorrow shouldn't be any different I want to stay that way she I hope it don't rain all day tomorrow boy you can have that sliding down waterfalls Joe do me a favor I know just what you're gonna say why aren't you tired sure I'm beat yeah but you're not talked out go to sleep will you know if it hadn't been for you O'Neill would have looked just like his radio he just fell on top of it yeah yeah yeah well I'm glad he didn't fall on top of me because that would have been two of us taking a swan hey Joe gonna lock it off and go to sleep I'm gonna put my foot you buddy I don't wait I only was trying to be quiet hey what that's not like everything in the jungle is going that's a carbine and come on what's the matter let the fire as high as you can don't do any shooting unless you're a tag ask me sounds like the thundering herd was headed this way it's a sad pig something has a whole jungle on the run don't try to stop anything going to unless they come for you hey look at him monkeys there must be a million in a brother was never like that take close to a fireman you're listening to the proudly we hail production jungle patrol we will return in just a moment for the second act ever stop to think about the meaning of a military salute soldiers call it a sign of recognition between men of an honorable profession some historians say the military salute began when knights in armor raised their helmet visors with their right hand to show friendliness in our time it has come to mean among soldiers a gesture of respect not for the individual himself but for the uniform he wears and the nation it represents that's worth remembering next time you see a soldier in the uniform of the United States Army keep in mind what that uniform means it's a visible symbol that he wears proudly if he's a good soldier a sign that he's begun to master one of the most honorable professions in man's history a sign that he has joined the good company of generations of American soldiers who've done man-sized jobs in the defense of our beliefs he's a man to respect he deserves your salute and more if you can qualify he deserves your help because he needs more men to stand beside him visit your nearest United States Army recruiting station tomorrow and find out how you can help him with a tough job he's doing well you are listening to proudly we hail and now we present the second act of jungle patrol the lights on boy oh boy if this ain't one of right home to the folks about weird isn't it I think everything to crawl a walk a fly went through here hadn't been for this ditch they had a trample us under what what made them do it we didn't scare him did we yeah they got a look at you only thing I know a little panic animals like that is fire oh we to see a fire that's right now it's like the whole jungle died not a sound yeah where do you what are you supposed they all went out of this area for sure maybe we ought to get out of here too if something could scare all those things we were lieutenant want you to go on a reconnaissance with him want to see if we can find out what caused all the uproar yeah sure what's he figured Sarge your guess is as good as anybody's look there butter they even travel each other in their hurry I don't get it lieutenant and it puts the hair up in your head doesn't it some of those animals aren't in the habit of running from anything some night lying in a ditch watching the Jaguars go by no one can say this has been a dull patrol so far fire water what about water sir a flood no we'd have known it by now oh there's a clearing ahead we'll take a look from there we don't see anything we'll go on back and chalk it up as a mystery of the jungle like that sure gets a man's curiosity on it imagine walking in a jungle where there's no sound but your own footsteps men from Mars who knows okay now let's stop here and have a look looks like more of the same lieutenant well we'll go on back and get moving no point in wasting more time well sir sure beats lieutenant what the hmm is the whole side of that hill there moving or only eyes gone wacky oh well ants ants millions of them soldier ants no wonder they can sweep the jungle clean of every living thing that gets in their path look there they're scouts have already reached the clearing scouts you mean they're just as well organized as any human army but no come on we got to get moving fast we got two miles of tough jungle that cut our way through and we'll reach the river once across the river we should be safe doesn't sound like a very long distance to go especially the men hardened to the rigors of distance but that two miles of hacking our way through jungle so thick that we moved in half darkness was a nightmare to me I couldn't get the picture out of my mind of an entire hillside turned black and seeming to move and flow like a great ugly wave I tried to tear my thoughts from such horror as we moved slowly oh so slowly toward the safety of the river the other men hadn't seen the ants it was hard for them to conceive only the lieutenant and I knew only we knew how imperative speed had become you on the point up there either pick it up or fall back in the rear and let the next man take a crack at it what's all hurry here running from a bunch of ants you guys so bad you weren't there to see him I'm a lock even the animals knew enough to take off but Marata says Malachi you know they were running from ants because I saw them so hooray for you these aren't like other ants meathead their soldier ants they're organized like an army and they move and fight like one there I cut it out wouldn't you Jim next you'll be telling me to scout so they have they have your dog sure they got asked to pull it from the bus they don't need it they come through the trees to yeah what's their general's name you get about a million of the money you can ask him look at it the river just ahead oh will you look at that yeah how we ever gonna get across ten at those two rubber rags we got wouldn't stand a chance in this on the way across is for someone to swim it with a rope patterner I don't know anyone I could swim a river moving that fast I'll give it a try look at it why don't we move down the river till we come to a better place to cross we couldn't move fast enough they flank us will the rope reach sergeant sure lieutenant not more than a hundred yards across this thing okay but they're you and Hobart handle this end lay it out slowly you see I can't make it hold me in I'll walk as far as I can all right the rest of you men start clearing the jungle around here like your life dependent on it three times sergeant Ward tried and three times we had to haul him in before he got 20 feet we gave it up then and joined the others and clearing out the jungle around us just as fast as we could under the lieutenant's orders we leveled a semicircular perimeter and dug a narrow ditch around its outer edge this we filled and piled up with the undergrowth and trees we cut down we knew the undergrowth would burn easily and that it would ignite the slow burning jungle wood this then was our fort in which we hoped to hold off the invaders pile all that extra wood and brush near the perimeter they got to keep the home fires burning I'll bet them crazy ants never come this way at all maybe a better prey that they don't help me lift this all righta the lieutenant want you to go out and see if our friends are coming me yeah you go on back up the trail we cut and find a spot where you can see what's going on I want you spot them don't hang around argue just get back here on the double boy if this don't be all what did you do any army son I went out and I warned the troops that are coming at the ants the ants sure we licked the whole lot of all right comedian hit the trail maybe it did sound screwy train soldiers getting ready to stand off a word of insects that isn't exactly what we've been trained for our carbines were useless our knowledge of infiltration of camouflage of a hundred other techniques and methods in the business of offense and defense were of no use a couple of flamethrowers might have solved the problem in a hurry box of explosives would have helped to but we had none of these things only our own intelligence and so we prepared to defend ourselves with one of the most primitive yet effective of all weapons fire hey they're coming to cover the whole jungles black with them holy suffering catch fish calm down come down Marotta did you tell how big an area they covered I couldn't see far but one minute I was sitting there and then I heard a funny kind of sound like a like rain on a leaves and I look up and the whole jungle was crawling at me even before I could get up a bunch of them dropped off a limb on my arm how far up the trail where you a couple of hundred yards maybe sergeant time to get the fires going okay lieutenant all right guys they came then one moment the edge of jungle around the perimeter was as usual lush green and the next to turn black and moving and float out to meet the fire for horrible moment we thought the wave would come right through the flames and although thousands of the ugly devils tried it they went up at smoke for their pains we stood with the river to our backs and the fire arching around us and watch the black waves stop flowing and move back a bit and then with the jungle black as far as we could see they patiently settled down to a state of siege they weren't moving on somehow they knew when we ran out of wood and the fire went out they'd have us buddy I don't mind telling you I don't like this I may have seen an ugliest sight but I don't know when what are we gonna do when I get around a minute man will you hurry it up now sergeant Ward and I have been studying this map about two miles below us the river forks narrows out can probably be crossed we gotta take that chance anyway sergeant Ward and one other man will take the rubber raft and go downstream to that point they'll cross and cut their way back up the other side to the opposite this point in the meantime will have gotten the line across the river they'll make it fast and we'll get out of here now we want to get the line across sir we'll make a big bow and shoot it over question is who's going with sergeant Ward I'll go sir okay everybody agreed we're all on this together so if you have any ideas all right let's get at it we get swept out into the main car I know I know paddle man she's starting to spin back what a yacht rocks ahead you can hold her here we'll miss a blast it can't you see we're being carried out put your back into it hey there's the fork ahead we're gonna hit that rat look out capsize the current swept us to a sand bar at the river's fork and there after getting our wind we swam the narrow channel to the far side once on the other side we began the grueling job of cutting our way back through the growth that came right to the river's edge we hacked and slashed until it seemed our arms would fall off that our lungs had burst under the strain we ever gonna get there got it got it time no time take your breath Jeff we got to save a lot more than that now if I could only walk across a rope or make it fast over there we wouldn't have to wait for gym and assange the wood supplies about shot yeah I know what we're gonna do if they don't make it in time well like the lieutenant said well we'll have to take that a river let it carry us downstream yeah yeah that chance we'll have I don't swim so well gym and assange will make it I keep telling myself look at those things straight from hell millions of them sitting and waiting sitting and waiting get off we ain't through yet almost there see smoke from the other side got a rest no rest later come on arms dip got a rat come put out the fire gotta hurry all the rest of the wood man won't go out quite so fast when the rain hits look at him will you they know it's gonna rain here she comes all right everybody to the river's edge nobody until I give the order then stick close to the shore and let the current carry it yeah that's fine for the guys that can swim only I never learned the gentle rain hey look look it's Jim a lieutenant they made it the ropes dirty or left make it fast pick as you can a lieutenant look the answers starting to move they're trying to come through mine that the fire is still too hot well who's your first then you won't need a little more on us come on start over just keep pulling that was the last man to come across it hardly started when the ants began pouring through right down and into the water they tried swarming out on the rope after the lieutenant but the sides thought fast and let some slack into the rope the lieutenant took a mean ducking and we thought for a second he'd be swept away but he held on and kept coming and the ants kept piling into the water trying to form a bridge but unable to after we'd hauled the lieutenant out we just sat where we were for a while getting our wind back okay guys time we hit the road still got a long way to go everybody on their feet Walters take the point hey lieutenant what kind of campaign ribbon we're gonna get out of this one huh all right I've been thinking about that I'm gonna recommend you all for a lovely jungle green one with an athlete cluster R&D research and development they call it we test everything under all kinds of 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