 At the only jungle warfare training facility in the Department of Defense, service members can expect to encounter some of the harshest jungle environment on Earth. Marines with Combat Assault Battalion completed the culminating event to the basic jungle survival course, the E-Course, April 17th at the Jungle Warfare Training Center. The course spans multiple miles and teams were required to navigate an array of obstacles designed to push the mind and body to its limits. The strenuous course is made more difficult when teams are required to remember a group of items from the beginning of the trail. What the Kim's game is, they come through at the covert. It's a box. We open it up, we give them two minutes. There's 13 items in that box, what they do, they remember that item, those items. Once they get here to the pit in Pine where we are now, they have two minutes to discuss amongst themselves all the items in the box, and they'll hesitate to get one Marine to come up and give all those items to the Chief over here. Three, two, one. The purpose of the Kim's game is to keep their mind strong in those stressful environments. You are going through a lot of stuff, you know, all these obstacles you're getting over. You just want to see if they can retain the information they picked up on their mission or whatnot. So if you are on a recon mission, you know, you go out, you look at the area, you survey it, you got to remember those items even through all the things you got to go through when you're getting back. The course includes a tactical combat casualty care assessment involving first aid and casualty transportation. After stabilizing the victim, teams create stretchers on the fly and traverse more than a mile navigating steep hills and harsh terrain. We knew when we were going to UDP that we were going to have the opportunity to come up to G8 Jungle Warfare Training Center, so I wanted to have an opportunity for at least some of the Marines of the company to come up here and experience, you know, one of the only jungle warfare training centers that the U.S. military has. And while we're here in Okinawa, that opportunity arose to send at least one platoon of AAV Marines through here, give them something different to do, a little flavor of what it's like to patrol through a dense jungle. The Marines ended the day panting and covered in mud, but are better prepared to deploy to any climb in place at any moment's notice. Reporting from the Jungle Warfare Training Center, Camp Gonzalez, Okinawa, Japan, I'm Marine Corporal Stephen Hines.