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Anyone mind explaining this to me like I'm 5? I just read that Ranger School has a self correcting land nav course? I'm not too good at it and trying to get better.
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When I went to Ranger school, it was a self-protecting land nav course... As in, the points were very well protected from being found by walls of briars, swamps, and darkness.
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Quite simply put, each of the designated points include not only the point designation (usually an alphanumeric like "JT8") but also the full grid coordinate (usually 8 digits). Thus, if you come up to "your point" you are able to verify that it is ACTUALLY your point; and if it is not, you are able to identify where you ARE so that you can get to your ACTUAL point.
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A self correcting course is one that the points have the grids on them. If you find any points you will be able to find your location on a map. Although I can't recall if Ranger school is.
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William Copeland
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On "self correcting" land course participants have at least 2.5 hours during limited vision and 2.5 hours during the all day to finish the test-task using just a map, pencil, protractor, red-lens flashlight and compass. The distances mainly traveled by between points are usually from 1000 meters to 1500. https://www.benning.army.mil/armor/eARMOR/content/issues/2016/OCT_DEC/4Fivecoat-Cunningham-Rieger16.pdf .
you can find plenty useful serious on youtube also(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPqeaiXBEsY , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGp4k8d2P14 )
Hope that will help and answer your question.
On "self correcting" land course participants have at least 2.5 hours during limited vision and 2.5 hours during the all day to finish the test-task using just a map, pencil, protractor, red-lens flashlight and compass. The distances mainly traveled by between points are usually from 1000 meters to 1500. https://www.benning.army.mil/armor/eARMOR/content/issues/2016/OCT_DEC/4Fivecoat-Cunningham-Rieger16.pdf .
you can find plenty useful serious on youtube also(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPqeaiXBEsY , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGp4k8d2P14 )
Hope that will help and answer your question.
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