page_title: Camp Gonsalves
section_title: Jungle Skills Course
hierarchical_section_title: Camp Gonsalves / Military training / Jungle Skills Course
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Nathan Sorrentino, with the Provost Marshal's Office, navigates for his patrol at the Jungle Warfare Training Center at Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan, on Aug. 19, 2009. The Jungle Warfare Training Center shows service members how to become effective war fighters in a jungle environment by teaching them land navigation, small unit leadership, patrolling and obstacle maneuvering.
context_page_description: Camp Gonsalves is a U.S. Marine Corps jungle warfare training area established in 1958, and located in northern Okinawa, Japan, across the villages of Kunigami and Higashi. It is the largest U.S training facility in Okinawa. The camp is located in the Yanbaru forest protected area, raising long time ecological concerns enhanced by the 2016 plan to built new helipads.
context_section_description: JWTC offers a Jungle Skills Course encompassing basic Marine combat skills in a jungle environment. The course consists of six total days, five of them training days. In addition to basic combat skills in the jungle, the course is designed to enhance the training unit's small unit leadership, tactical mindset, and unit cohesion. Training up to 100 personnel, a few classes taught in the Jungle Skills course are land navigation, patrolling, rope management & rappelling, and jungle booby traps. The Jungle Skills course culminates with the Jungle Endurance Course.
caption: A student conducting land Navigation
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