For the first time in two decades, US Marines and soldiers are back in Panama to train

Maybe they are writing postcards to Venezuela's dictator Nicolas Maduro! Pardon my bad joke! 😊

"American Marines and soldiers are once again rucking through the Panamanian jungle, for the first time in more than two decades.

The U.S. military, along with Panamanian security forces, revived jungle warfare courses for conventional forces this fall. Soldiers and Marines are learning survival techniques including foraging, navigating dense tropical forest terrain and combat in the jungle as part of the new Combined Jungle Operations Training Course. U.S. Southern Command recently put the first group through the full new course. ..."

US troops are training in Panama again after decades away "Welcome back to the jungle."

A Marine crosses over a river during jungle warfare training in Panama in October 2025.