The record of the CHINDIT War is one of high drama involving exhilarating triumph during the campaign in Burma and clearly demonstrated that the light infantry could be successfully employed at the operational level of war. Operating in this terrain required the highest levels of physical endurance and mental toughness. The key to their success was good hard relevant training. Two themes were manifested in the CHINDIT training:

• The first was physical endurance. The pace, duration and intensity of the training were all designed to create and maintain an ultra-high level of stress and physical demands. The CHINDITS were loaded with huge 70-pound sacks and marched unmercifully through man-killing jungle terrain. No consideration was given to sickness, minor injury, heat or weather. Placed on light rations and given little water, the men were pushed beyond the limits they thought they could endure.

• The second theme was jungle craft -- a regimen through which they received expert-level training in all the vital skills needed to penetrate behind the enemy's lines in trackless jungle. This included map reading, jungle navigation, scouting, patrolling, marksmanship, river crossings, watermanship, column marching, infiltration, night operations, terrain appreciation, squad/platoon/company tactics, covering of tracks, evasion, and defensive operations. Emphasis was placed on platoon tactics, believing that in the jungle, every contact or operation eventually was decided on the basis of the effectiveness of the platoon. The CHINDITS also focused on individual decision making and initiative and painstaking Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), with the troops capable of executing these SOPs with clockwork precision as integrated actions based on individual tasks and teamwork.

The feats of these soldiers have been simply described as "incredible feats of endurance, discipline and sheer perseverance." The high value of the individual skills and special tactics of the light infantry is borne out by the accomplishments in the CHINDIT War. It is to the memory and honor of these, "the greatest fighting men in the world," that the 29th Infantry Division (Light) names its Annual Training 1998 Operation CHINDIT!