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A Panamanian National Aeronaval Service jungle instructor attends a jungle orientation course graduation, at Aeronaval Base Cristóbal Colón, Panama, Aug. 22, 2025. The course consisted of teachings from a combined team of jungle instructors from across the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division, Panamanian National Border Service, National Aeronaval Service, and Panamanian National Police, who provided hands-on instruction to a class made up of U.S. Marines assigned to 2d Battalion, 2d Marines, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and Panamanian security forces. The students learned about knot-tying, proper river crossing procedures, identifying and harvesting edible flora and fauna, medical evacuation procedures, and more jungle survival skills and techniques. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Julia Lebens)

A Panamanian National Aeronaval Service jungle instructor attends a jungle orientation course graduation, at Aeronaval Base Cristóbal Colón, Panama, Aug. 22, 2025. The course consisted of teachings from a combined team of jungle instructors from across the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division, Panamanian National Border Service, National Aeronaval Service, and Panamanian National Police, who provided hands-on instruction to a class made up of U.S. Marines assigned to 2d Battalion, 2d Marines, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and Panamanian security forces. The students learned about knot-tying, proper river crossing procedures, identifying and harvesting edible flora and fauna, medical evacuation procedures, and more jungle survival skills and techniques. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Julia Lebens)

Photo by Senior Airman Julia Lebens

A Panamanian National Police jungle instructor salutes U.S. Army Col. Marc Sanborn, Joint Security Cooperation Group - Panama commander, at the jungle orientation course graduation, at Aeronaval Base Cristóbal Colón, Panama, Aug. 22, 2025. The course consisted of teachings from a combined team of jungle instructors from across the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division, Panamanian National Border Service, National Aeronaval Service, and Panamanian National Police, who provided hands-on instruction about knot-tying, proper river crossing procedures, identifying and harvesting edible flora and fauna, medical evacuation procedures, and more jungle survival skills and techniques. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Julia Lebens)

A Panamanian National Police jungle instructor salutes U.S. Army Col. Marc Sanborn, Joint Security Cooperation Group - Panama commander, at the jungle orientation course graduation, at Aeronaval Base Cristóbal Colón, Panama, Aug. 22, 2025. The course consisted of teachings from a combined team of jungle instructors from across the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division, Panamanian National Border Service, National Aeronaval Service, and Panamanian National Police, who provided hands-on instruction about knot-tying, proper river crossing procedures, identifying and harvesting edible flora and fauna, medical evacuation procedures, and more jungle survival skills and techniques. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Julia Lebens)

Photo by Senior Airman Julia Lebens

A U.S. Marine assigned to 2d Battalion, 2d Marines, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, demonstrates water purification techniques for the Panamanian Deputy Minister of Public Safety, Luis Felipe Icaza, he learned at a graduation ceremony after a jungle orientation course at Aeronaval Base Cristóbal Colón, Panama, Aug. 22, 2025. The course consisted of teachings from a combined team of jungle instructors from across the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division, Panamanian National Border Service, National Aeronaval Service, and Panamanian National Police, who provided hands-on instruction about knot-tying, proper river crossing procedures, identifying and harvesting edible flora and fauna, medical evacuation procedures, and more jungle survival skills and techniques. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Julia Lebens)

A U.S. Marine assigned to 2d Battalion, 2d Marines, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, demonstrates water purification techniques for the Panamanian Deputy Minister of Public Safety, Luis Felipe Icaza, he learned at a graduation ceremony after a jungle orientation course at Aeronaval Base Cristóbal Colón, Panama, Aug. 22, 2025. The course consisted of teachings from a combined team of jungle instructors from across the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division, Panamanian National Border Service, National Aeronaval Service, and Panamanian National Police, who provided hands-on instruction about knot-tying, proper river crossing procedures, identifying and harvesting edible flora and fauna, medical evacuation procedures, and more jungle survival skills and techniques. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Julia Lebens)

Photo by Senior Airman Julia Lebens

U.S. Marines assigned to 2d Battalion, 2d Marines, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and members of the Panamanian National Border Service, National Aeronaval Service, and Panamanian National Police, attend their graduation ceremony after a jungle orientation course at Aeronaval Base Cristóbal Colón, Panama, Aug. 22, 2025. The course consisted of teachings from a combined team of jungle instructors from across the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division, Panamanian National Border Service, National Aeronaval Service, and Panamanian National Police, who provided hands-on instruction about knot-tying, proper river crossing procedures, identifying and harvesting edible flora and fauna, medical evacuation procedures, and more jungle survival skills and techniques. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Julia Lebens)

U.S. Marines assigned to 2d Battalion, 2d Marines, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and members of the Panamanian National Border Service, National Aeronaval Service, and Panamanian National Police, attend their graduation ceremony after a jungle orientation course at Aeronaval Base Cristóbal Colón, Panama, Aug. 22, 2025. The course consisted of teachings from a combined team of jungle instructors from across the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division, Panamanian National Border Service, National Aeronaval Service, and Panamanian National Police, who provided hands-on instruction about knot-tying, proper river crossing procedures, identifying and harvesting edible flora and fauna, medical evacuation procedures, and more jungle survival skills and techniques. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Julia Lebens)

Photo by Senior Airman Julia Lebens

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Angel Reyes, a member of the 8th Engineering Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, hikes up a mountain during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Angel Reyes, a member of the 8th Engineering Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, hikes up a mountain during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Damon Crossland, with the Mountain Warfare Training Center, and Midshipman of Infantry Marines. (2nd Lt.) Isaias Diaz, a member of the Batallón de Infantería de Marina 5, look up at the peak of the mountain they are climbing, in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Damon Crossland, with the Mountain Warfare Training Center, and Midshipman of Infantry Marines. (2nd Lt.) Isaias Diaz, a member of the Batallón de Infantería de Marina 5, look up at the peak of the mountain they are climbing, in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Damon Crossland, with the Mountain Warfare Training Center, hikes up a mountain during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Damon Crossland, with the Mountain Warfare Training Center, hikes up a mountain during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marines from the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineering Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, tie into ropes before a hike up to the peak of a mountain with Argentinian marines from Batallón de Infantería de Marina 4 and 5, in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines from the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineering Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, tie into ropes before a hike up to the peak of a mountain with Argentinian marines from Batallón de Infantería de Marina 4 and 5, in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marines from the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineering Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, have lunch and share Mata, a type of tea, with Argentinian marines from Batallón de Infantería de Marina 4 and 5, during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines from the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineering Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, have lunch and share Mata, a type of tea, with Argentinian marines from Batallón de Infantería de Marina 4 and 5, during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marines from the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineering Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, hike up a mountain with Argentinian marines from Batallón de Infantería de Marina 4 and 5, in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines from the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineering Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, hike up a mountain with Argentinian marines from Batallón de Infantería de Marina 4 and 5, in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Damon Crossland, with the Mountain Warfare Training Center, and Midshipman of Infantry Marines. (2nd Lt.) Isaias Diaz, a member of the Batallón de Infantería de Marina 5, pause to check on the U.S. and Argentinean Marines during a hike up a mountain, in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Damon Crossland, with the Mountain Warfare Training Center, and Midshipman of Infantry Marines. (2nd Lt.) Isaias Diaz, a member of the Batallón de Infantería de Marina 5, pause to check on the U.S. and Argentinean Marines during a hike up a mountain, in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug 13, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marines with the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group and Argentine Marines, hike up a mountain during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group and Argentine Marines, hike up a mountain during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Damon Crossland, and U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class. Tyler Neils, a Corpsman with the Mountain Warfare Training Center hike up a mountain during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Damon Crossland, and U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class. Tyler Neils, a Corpsman with the Mountain Warfare Training Center hike up a mountain during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marines with the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group and Argentine Marines, hike up a mountain during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group and Argentine Marines, hike up a mountain during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class. Tyler Neils, a Corpsman with the Mountain Warfare Training Center, poses with for photo with Argentine Marines members of the Battalion Infantria de Marine no. 5, before a hike up a mountain during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class. Tyler Neils, a Corpsman with the Mountain Warfare Training Center, poses with for photo with Argentine Marines members of the Battalion Infantria de Marine no. 5, before a hike up a mountain during a cold weather exercise in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marines with the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group and Argentine Marines, load into tactical vehicles to move to a training area in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group and Argentine Marines, load into tactical vehicles to move to a training area in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marines with the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, load into tactical vehicles to move to a training area in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, load into tactical vehicles to move to a training area in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marines with 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, conduct gear checks before conducting a movement to a training area in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

U.S. Marines with 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, conduct gear checks before conducting a movement to a training area in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aim to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

Midshipman of Infantry Marines. (2nd Lt.) Isaias Diaz, a member of the Battalion Infantria de Marine no. 5, hikes up a mountain during a cold weather exercise with U.S. Marines from the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Midshipman of Infantry Marines. (2nd Lt.) Isaias Diaz, a member of the Battalion Infantria de Marine no. 5, hikes up a mountain during a cold weather exercise with U.S. Marines from the Mountain Warfare Training Center and 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, in Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 12, 2025. This training creates opportunities for continued combined exercises with Argentine forces which aims to build upon the skills learned in these knowledge exchanges. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Payton Goodrich)

Photo by Cpl. Payton Goodrich

U.S. Marines and Uruguayan service members look at a display during a subject matter expert exchange in Uruguay, August 14, 2025. This subject matter expert exchange enhances the training and readiness standards for the United States and Uruguay as well as facilitating the exchange of formalized readiness standards between both countries. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Eduardo Delatorre)

U.S. Marines and Uruguayan service members look at a display during a subject matter expert exchange in Uruguay, August 14, 2025. This subject matter expert exchange enhances the training and readiness standards for the United States and Uruguay as well as facilitating the exchange of formalized readiness standards between both countries. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Eduardo Delatorre)

Photo by Sgt. Eduardo Delatorre

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