The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
JUNGLE CENTER PREPARES CTS
 TO MEET LAPS
By ERNEST BARCELLA United Press War Correspondent

NOnIteu fTeSS war COIEcspOhuSI
 In The Hawaiian Jungles - (U. P) IT A sign by the side of trail carries this challenging legend:
 Tt takes gutS
 And that is what you find plenty of here - CUTS. For this is the finishing school of intestinal forti- tude for the American doughboy en route to far Pacific battlefronts.
 This is the U. s. Army Unit Jungle Training Center - a school of combat realism which gives the doughfoot complete confidence III himself, his buddies and his wea- pons. It is a school of hard knocks where he learns to overcome fear of the jungle; where he learns to fight and lick the Japanese. And by the time he graduates, he IS ready to take on the enemy - any, where, any time and under any conditions - for this is his last dress rehearsal before the real thing.
 Intensive Course
 The course is short only 56 hours compressed into one week. But it is thoroughly intensive And by the time the GI has completed it, he knows just about all he needs to know in the way of hand-to- hand combat, booby traps and demolition, jungle living, ambush ing and patrolling, hip shooting and infiltration, bayonet assault and stream crossing. He knows how to knock out Japanese pill box and attack a Japanese-held town or any other enemy fortified area. He knows because such les sons nuts be learned the hard way by living in a jungle and by doing the very things he must face in actual combat.
 There is nothing make believe about the combat training here except the enemy and that part of 1t becomes real soon enough. The CT first live ammunition and is exposed to all the dangers he would face in battle. Lethal ma chine-gun fire goes ripping into a target; flame throwers squirt streams of soaring liquid fire; deadly hand grenades are hurled into pill boxes or frame buildings stimulating other enemy defense Installations. The trainees can't afford to make a mistake under these conditions - for obvious rea- sons. There aren't many mistakes.
 The theory behind this realistic combat training is that the foot soldier might as well know now what he will be up against when he comes face to face with the enemy.
 The system pays rich dividends in the form of victory and lives saved in actual battle. Best evil dence of this is the victory now being fashioned by U. s. troops on OkinaWa. That triumph-in-the- making was matched here, for not long ago many of them went through this course.
 Colonel Trained Rangers
 They are among the troops so traned here since the school began operating September 12, 1943 The same training lies ahead for many thousands more who will fight the ultimate battle of Japan.
 Headmaster of the school is rough, tough, two-fsted Colonel William c. Saffarrans, who once put the famed Rangers through their paceS at the Tennessee train ing center. Saffarrans. former Georgetown University and Army football player, emphasizes that he is not running a school for super men, here.
 There is nothing in any course that the average soldier capable of going into combat cannot do, he said.
 His trainees represent every walk of American life. He is welding them into a resourceful, victorious fighting team whose watchword is Protect your buddy" and whose badge of valor is guts.