Lab 5: Urban Land Navigation
Fall 2007

Training on campus allows cadets the ability to perfect certain skills before an introduction to a field environment and Urban land navigation is a primary example. Before cadets must find a point in unfamiliar territory, they must employ and become familiar with basic techniques in a comfortable environment. Urban land navigation introduces cadets to preliminary techniques such as pace count and shooting an azimuth, while developing more advanced methods.

Cadets Rice, Lachappelle , Motley and Rinehart work as a team to plot their points.

Cadet Selby shoots an azimuth.

Captain Pickard instructs Cadet Captain Todd on how to lead the lane.

Cadet Thomas is a Kentucky Wesleyan student who is in his MSIII year.

Cadets search for a point under a bridge.

Cadets Lachappelle and Rice work together to find points.

Cadet Captain Modesitt radios in for instructions.

Cadet Major Reid and Cadet Captain Lawrence review land navigation results.

A group of Cadets arrive to have their score sheets graded.

Lab After Action Reviews

Sustain                                                            Improve

Varied terrain                                                   Time was short
Maps were of good quality                               South course spots may have been missing
Course was pre-walked                                   Old Spots were still marked.
Spots were clearly marked