Truthfully, without a compass, if you walk into the unknown woods(At night or day), or a corn field, within 30-40 minutes you will make a circle back exactly to your location plus/minus 50 meters from your point of entry Assuming there are no dead reckon points like a mountain. Unless you are intimately familiar with your area of operations, you don’t have a natural orientation or some sort of magic brain compass. Myth Number 1, you have a natural sense of direction. Mostly just military and a few Boy Scouts from the real sticks. The best answer is pretty simple, like “Who has the time to pretend getting lost in the woods, and possibly get lost for real?” Very few people. Some persist for understandable reasons, like a gun “Fudd” myth, others are harder to verify the origin of the rumor. I’m going to address some of those myths in this piece. Land Navigation has some long standing myths and legends. There is a reason that the Taliban, AQI, and ISIS takes the winter months off. Snow is my last choice because of the ability to track your marks in the snow. “G Weather” is usually low hanging cloud cover, rain, or snow that lasts a day or two. During the age of drones and cameras, you’ll want to move out during “G-Weather”. If you cannot find your friends or foes, you have a very serious problem. There is a reason it’s used to thin the heard at SFAS, Rangers, Recon, and countless other units worldwide. Although the maps are a pain to carry and protect. I think my water purification kit weighs more than my land navigation kit A lot more. Land navigation requires less “stuff” than you would think. That’s twice the trouble, good luck running if you get spotted.īadlands Fieldcraft, a contributor to the mission at AP, has a great introduction to the kit you need. ![]() But this is risky Roads are high speed avenues of approach, and you are on two of them. Bingo, you are right there… You have successfully located yourself on the map. If you get lost, find the nearest intersection, pull out your Atlas or roadmap, and double check it. We also have a lot of roads in the Northeast to use as a “land mark” to double check your location on a map. ![]() Technically, that is a form of land navigation called “Terrain Association”. In my suburban area, I can not properly train my guys in land navigation, They would just say “I know where I am”, and that would be that. ![]() Especially if you don’t have the time, or area, to properly practice actual land navigation in an unknown area through unknown terrain.
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