Story by Eric Durr September 16, 2022 at 03:22PM LATHAM, NEW YORK--Two firefighters—an Army Guardsman from New York City, and a Syracuse Air Guardsman from Syracuse—will represent the New York National Guard and the United States during the Brazilian Jungle Warfare Center’s international course at the end of September. Army Sgt. William Dunn, and Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jeremy Miter will spend six weeks in the Amazon rain forest learning how to navigate in the jungle, fight in the jungle and use rivers as travel routes through the jungle. The Brazilian school, known as CIGS, the acronym for its Portuguese name -- Centro de Instrucao de Guerra na Selva—was founded in 1964, and is considered the top jungle training center in the world.
