A Queensland soldier has develop into the primary Australian to finish a gruelling nine-week jungle warfare course within the French Guiana managed Amazon rainforest.
Sergeant Matthew Reid, of the Townsville Fight Coaching Centre’s Tully Jungle Coaching Wing, was certainly one of 35 contributors who braved the Jaguar Course, internationally famend as being one of many hardest programs on the planet.
The 2-month problem contains one week spent doing checks earlier than contenders are taken to the Amazonian forest of French Guiana and confronted with a sequence of endurance, fight, and survival checks.
Talking to the Gold Coast Bulletin, Sergeant Reid described workout routines like carrying casualties by way of waist-deep mud and survival workout routines that require contributors to construct shelter, and forage and hunt for meals.
The course then ends with a five-day mission alongside France’s third Overseas Infantry Regiment in an area village.
Including to the problem was all directions being given in French.
Nevertheless, Sergeant Reid stated it was a “once-in-a-lifetime expertise”.
“I cherished it, most likely not whereas I used to be doing it. There have been positively elements the place I used to be like ‘that is tough’, however afterwards, I completely cherished it,” he advised the Bulletin.
“The workers from the Legion had been extraordinarily skilled and extremely proficient.”
The Jaguar Course runs from February to April and is organised by the French Overseas Legion’s Jungle Coaching Centre.
