"They don't know land navigation, first aid.
We were at Fort Jackson, S.C., for field training, conducting night land navigation.
Drawing a comparison to generations of computer operating systems, Steve Jones, the Rockwell Collins marketing manager for land navigation products, said that "Plugger is DOS, and Dagger is Windows".
Much of their time at the school is spent on physical training, as well as classroom work in leadership, basic military skills like land navigation, and military history.
The country was enjoying what President Clinton liked to call "the longest peacetime expansion in history," and Carl's duties as an infantryman, they thought, would largely be a matter of his getting into shape, shooting awesome weapons, and learning skills like rappelling and land navigation.
The Rangers trained extensively in reconnaissance, long-range patrols, motorized scouting, setting up roadblocks, land navigation, camouflage, concealment, and adjusting indirect fire.
My soldiers in conducting land navigation training this past week learned that if you are off course a couple of degrees for a short distance, it doesn't matter too much.
There is almost daily physical training in the morning in addition to marksmanship training, periodic road marches, confidence/obstacle course negotiation, high tower operations, team and individual movement exercises, land navigation, and other physical activities.
