In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Uncle Ben tells Biff to “never fight fair with a stranger, boy” because “you’ll never get out of the jungle that way.”

It’s good advice, and one no one knows that better than the United States military.

In the following footage, watch as U.S. Army paratroopers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division get through an arduous, booby-trap-packed obstacle course at the French Jungle Warfare School in Gabon, Africa.

This from the Army website:

After training for months in the deserts of Fort Bliss, Texas, and the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif., approximately 60 Soldiers of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, transitioned to the humid climate and thick vegetation at French Jungle Warfare School in Gabon.

… Faces painted in camouflage, the men set out with rucks on their backs to learn jungle survival skills and tactics, as well as test their physical and mental stamina.

“During the week, the Soldiers are learning to fight in the jungle,” said Adgudant Lumchook Loom, an instructor with the French Jungle Warfare School. “I think, for the U.S. Army, it’s very good because it’s another style of warfare.”

The Jungle Warfare School ran its first course in 1983, according to Loom. Since then, the French school’s top priority has been to train their African partners, in addition to some European troops. This is the first time any U.S. servicemember has attended the course, which focuses on terrain unfamiliar to today’s ordinary Soldier.

“This is something that’s a very unique opportunity,” said Capt. Zachary Schaeffer, Bravo Company commander. “It’s been very beneficial to the Soldiers just to see a very different perspective, something that we’re not at all used to, something that may have fallen by the wayside since we’ve been operating in Iraq and Afghanistan for so many years in the past.”

Hopefully that perspective that may have existed at a “wayside” is, at the end of the day, positive and not deadly.