Torn clothes, and flip-flops instead of boots. What the SPLA lacks in training and equipment, however, it makes up for in morale, particularly after the fall of Yei. As the songs pick up any one of the men will run out in front gesturing with his weapon as though firing it, while others will howl over the song. There's nothing worse than a soldier who thinks to much. Map reading skills are not needed because there are very few maps.
Compasses are non-existent.
The men aren't taught survival in the bush, because they've been surviving in the bush all their lives. If we want information we just send someone from intelligence into the town looking like an ordinary Sudanese and they get all that we need to know. The sorry state of the SPLA's training is not surprising. South Sudan is one of the most isolated areas of the planet, and in many ways, the war is being fought to break out of that isolation. TV doesn't exist, there s no electricity, and short wave radios are the only line of instant information from the outside.