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A Brazilian Army soldier training at the Jungle Warfare Training Center. The Jungle Warfare Training Center (CIGS) in Brazil is the primary jungle warfare training center for Brazilian forces. They seek to copy the capacities of units of homologous commands. [18]
The Brazilian Army (Portuguese: Exército Brasileiro; EB) is the branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces responsible, externally, for defending the country in eminently terrestrial operations and, internally, for guaranteeing law, order and the constitutional branches, subordinating itself, in the Federal Government's structure, to the Ministry of Defense, alongside the Brazilian Navy and Air Force.
Area of the Comando Militar da Amazônia 2017 Structure Comando Militar da Amazônia 2017 (click to enlarge) Brazilian Army soldiers of the Special Border Platoon, specialized in jungle warfare. Amazon Military Command ( Comando Militar da Amazônia ) [ 2 ] in Manaus
The battalion is capable of conducting its missions independently from or in conjunction with conventional forces. Battalion troops are trained in jungle warfare at the Army's CIGS jungle warfare school and in amphibious, mountain warfare, airborne, airmobile and HAHO/HALO operations.
Special operations, jungle warfare, and mountain warfare training in the Brazilian Army originated among the paratroopers. [24] Special forces acquired their own course in 1957, along with a detachment that was expanded in 1983 into the 1st Special Forces Battalion.
Two Infantry Brigades specializing in Jungle warfare and one Military Regional Command are subordinated to the CMN. Its area of responsibility covers the states of Maranhão , Pará , and Amapá , as well as the northernmost area of the state of Tocantins .
Between 1992 and 2008, the 1st, 2nd and 16th Jungle Infantry Brigades, [40] [41] the 3rd Infantry Battalion, the 19th Logistics Battalion, and the 22nd Army Police Platoon were transferred by the Army from the states of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul to the Amazon region [42] in accordance with the friendship policy with Argentina.
Military Academy in Rio de Janeiro, 1888. In 1792, Queen Mary I of Portugal and Brazil founded the Real Academia de Artilharia, Fortificação e Desenho (Royal Academy of Artillery, Fortification and Drawing) in Rio de Janeiro, modeled after the existing Academy in Lisbon, intended to train artillery and engineering officers of the Portuguese Army in Brazil.