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Senior Member
Land-Nav
So I recently went on a land-nav course at Ft. Bliss during day and night to navigate to various points (5 in the day, 3 at night). The course was messed up and the maps we were given were approximately 50 meters off (this is based on what we were told before we even started and the results of EVERYONE after finishing) but I feel like I got a good familiarization. Pace count beads really do come in handy, I was forced to tick mark my hands to keep track of my pace count, and the terrain (desert with thousands of small dunes topped with thorn bushes/cacti) could have been better. I used the box method when coming up to my pre-determined area in regards to azimuth and pace count and just expanded outwards to find my point, which was fairly doable during the day. This was not feasible at night though, there was no moonlight and I was only able to find 2/3 points due to them being silhouetted in the twilight of the city miles away. Are there any tips that you all can share with me to more accurately plot my points, especially when on a time hack? I was told to tie a string in the middle of the square protractor that way I'd avoid marking up my map with lines from point to point when determining an azimuth (I found this method to work well for me) but simple tips like that would really help. Thanks!
CDT/E-5 M.
68W Combat Medic/09R SMP Cadet
HHB 3/133 FA
56 IBCT
TX ARNG
"Dum Spiramus Tuebimur"
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10-15-2012 08:19 PM
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