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Jungle training brought together new graduates, historical veterans, and military authorities in Manaus, in a ceremony marked by the awarding of the Jungle Warrior badge and the celebration of six decades of the operational course aimed at military action in the Amazon.
The Jungle Warfare Instruction Center (CIGS) in Manaus held the graduation ceremony for the Jungle Operations Course and awarded the graduating military personnel the Jungle Warrior badge, a stage traditionally known as brevetting.
Also marked by the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the first course of the specialty, the ceremony was recorded in a publication by the Brazilian Army on June 16, 2026.
Military authorities, family members, and guests attended the conclusion of a training focused on preparing troops to operate in the Amazon environment, in areas that require physical endurance, technical mastery, and adaptability.
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Among those present were General Vendramin, Eastern Amazon Military Commander, and General Viana Filho, Amazon Military Commander, who highlighted the practical application of the knowledge acquired by the graduates.
According to Viana Filho, the newly graduated military personnel will take this learning to their units and will act in defense of national interests, especially in the border region, considered strategic for the Army’s presence in the Amazon.
Jungle Operations Course prepares military for the Amazon
Presented by the Army as one of the most traditional and demanding operational courses of the Force, the Jungle Operations Course includes instructions aimed at planning, commanding, and executing missions in forest areas.
During weeks of technical, physical, and psychological preparation, students face activities structured to develop endurance, discipline, and decision-making in an environment marked by difficult movements, isolation, and severe natural conditions.
The training is organized into three main phases: jungle life, special techniques, and operations, stages that concentrate knowledge of survival, movement, troop employment, and conducting military actions in Amazonian territory.
In each phase, the military personnel enhance skills necessary to operate in hard-to-reach regions, where terrain mastery, environmental adaptation, and team coordination are decisive factors for the mission.
With the delivery of the brevet, the student becomes part of the group of military personnel specialized in jungle operations, a recognition that symbolizes the completion of the training cycle at CIGS and the aptitude to operate in this operational environment.
Within military tradition, the Jungle Warrior badge represents the training obtained at the Center and reinforces the link between technical training, the unit’s operational culture, and the mission of defending the Amazon.
CIGS celebrates 60 years of the first jungle course
In the same ceremony, members of the pioneering class of the Jungle Operations Course were honored for the legacy left to Brazilian military doctrine, six decades after the first brevetting held in Manaus.
Breveted in 1966 by then Major Jorge Teixeira de Oliveira, the first commander of CIGS, these veterans participated in the initial phase of validating techniques, procedures, and knowledge aimed at employing troops in the forest.
Upon returning to the Center, the military personnel of the first class received recognition for their contribution to the construction of the Jungle Warrior identity, now associated with specialized preparation for missions in the Amazon environment.
The experience accumulated by this group helped guide subsequent generations of combatants and consolidated practices that remain present in the training of military personnel prepared to operate in jungle areas.
Over the decades, the courses conducted at CIGS have contributed to strengthening the operational capacity of the Brazilian Army in the Amazon and have expanded the exchange of knowledge with military personnel from partner nations.
This trajectory has transformed the unit based in Manaus into a national reference in troop training for the jungle environment, especially due to the combination of physical preparation, operational doctrine, and knowledge of the territory.
Jungle Warriors unite tradition and military training
By bringing together veterans of the pioneering class and newly graduated military personnel, the graduation gained a historical character and reinforced the idea of continuity between different generations prepared under the jungle warfare doctrine.
The ceremony valued the transmission of values between classes trained at CIGS and highlighted the permanence of a tradition linked to the defense of the Amazon, operations at borders, and knowledge of the terrain’s particularities.
In a message addressed to the graduates and honorees, the Commander of CIGS, Colonel Prazeres, stated: “Before the light goes out, before the sun sets, there will be someone to be, there will be someone to stay, so that others may come, so that others may stay.”
The statement was used in the ceremony to symbolize the continuity of the mission between the pioneers of 1966 and the current Jungle Warriors, united by military training aimed at the Amazon environment.
Based in Manaus, the CIGS focuses on the specialized preparation of troops that may be deployed in border areas, rivers, forests, and regions of difficult access, where knowledge of the territory plays a central role.
After brevetting, the new Jungle Warriors begin to bring the knowledge acquired in the course to their military organizations, contributing to the preparation of units operating in the Amazon.
By concluding the instruction cycle of the graduates and recalling the origin of the course created in the 1960s, the ceremony highlighted the continuity of a tradition built around the presence of the Army in the Amazon region.
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