As tensions with China build and the US military sends more troops to the Asia-Pacific region, soldiers with the skills to fight and survive in the jungle are increasingly vital. The US Army trains soldiers for jungle warfare at the 25th Infantry Division's Lightning Academy on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

Insider's chief video correspondent Graham Flanagan spent 12 days inside the Army's Jungle Operations Training Course, where a cross section of soldiers of various ranks and experience levels learn to fight, move, and survive in the jungle. Eighty students begin the course on day one, but only 51 will make it to graduation. The rest are dropped from the course by failing one of five critical tests.

On day nine, students begin a three-day culminating exercise that incorporates the skills and lessons taught in the course, such as rope systems, rappelling, survival skills, small-unit tactics, and land navigation. Students who graduate from the course receive the Army’s coveted jungle tab.

00:00 Intro
1:30 Welcome to the jungle
2:28 Day 1/in-processing
4:10 Critical test No. 1: knots
5:56 Jungle school briefing
7:15 Day 2/knots retest
8:17 Critical test No. 2: jungle 5K
10:09 Critical test No. 3: combat water survival assessment
14:13 Intro to land navigation
15:49 Day 3/land-navigation practice
17:06 Small-unit-tactics training
17:55 Meeting the students
21:41 Tension builds in Asia-Pacific region
22:35 History of jungle school
23:55 Day 4/traps, tracking, and camouflage
25:22 Jungle penetrator
26:43 Day 5/rappelling
27:36 No. 23’s impact on morale
29:41 Day 6/critical test No. 4: land navigation
37:48 Building ruck rafts/old friends reunite
39:18 Day 7/Survival Village
42:55 Impact on family life
44:02 Day 8/building signal fire
45:23 Chinese spy balloon news
46:24 Critical test No. 5: rope systems
48:40 Culex briefing
49:28 Day 9/first day of culex
55:00 Day 10/second day of culex
1:00:53 Day 11/third day of culex
1:03:35 The Green Mile
1:06:51 The Dogex
1:07:30 Day 12/graduation

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