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Colombia plane crash: Four children found alive in Amazon after 40 days
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Teacher Terry
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Amazing and as others mentioned it’s due to the older girl knowing how to survive in the jungle.
She at 13 kept a 9 year old, 4 year old and more amazing a 1 year old alive. She likely also had to carry the 1 year old for all that time.
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Thanks, it looks like the kids survived on some cassava flour they took from the plane and wild fruits and nuts. Really impressive, just finding safe water and some kind of shelter would have been a challenge beyond most of us.
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Another one showing the terrain
https://ca.yahoo.com/news/colombia-plane-crash-clues-helped-091923472.html
https://ca.yahoo.com/news/colombia-plane-crash-clues-helped-091923472.html
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Right before I retired, we sent a group of Marines from the Force Recon Division down to the Amazon for training. I was on the list to lead one of the patrols, but only as a consultant. I was OK with doing that, but I came down with bronchitis and the head doctor in North Carolina thought is best to remove me from the list because of the heavy vegetation in that area would only increase the effects of the bronchitis.
When the men came home, I asked around about their trip and a few of them weren't ready to go do it again, so I am guessing that it wasn't no picnic or vacation. Survival training is probably one of the toughest challenges the Marines use to build character and confidence in some of our Divisions. I'm sure that what some of the men in Vietnam saw were pretty much the same things as is in the Amazon. What stands out about the Amazon is the millions of different species of different living things that live in that hell-hole.
When the men came home, I asked around about their trip and a few of them weren't ready to go do it again, so I am guessing that it wasn't no picnic or vacation. Survival training is probably one of the toughest challenges the Marines use to build character and confidence in some of our Divisions. I'm sure that what some of the men in Vietnam saw were pretty much the same things as is in the Amazon. What stands out about the Amazon is the millions of different species of different living things that live in that hell-hole.