JEST (Jungle Environmental Survival Training) School was a premier Jungle Survival school from the early 1960’s until 1991 for US military aviators, combat arms, and special operations forces in the Asia-Pacific region at the former US Naval Base at Subic Bay, Zambales, Philippines. The JEST School retains it’s original location in what is now the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, an economic Freeport on the grounds of the former US base where it continues to provide military courses in jungle survival and civilian eco-tourism educational programs.

The instructor cadre for JEST is composed of indigenous Aetas, or Negritos, the earliest inhabitants of the Philippines who have been employed by the US military as guides, trackers and survival instructors since the turn of the century.

The Pekiti-Tirsia Global Organization hosts basic and advanced jungle survival courses (1-3 days) at JEST in conjunction with its Advanced Mastery Training Camps. The program of instruction is centered on the use of the Bolo (available for purchase at the school) with skills for providing food, water, shelter, medicine, and may include advanced land navigation and tracking.

Contact Tim Waid, PTGO Director of Training at tim.waid@pt-go.com for complete details and assistance in planning and scheduling a training program.