On August 26-27, the Fort Bliss, Texas Noncommissioned Officer Academy (NCOA) conducted map reading training in a classroom environment that concluded with a hands-on practical night and day land ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About seven months after the Army reintroduced land navigation to its Basic Leader Course, or BLC, half of the soldiers in that ...

Spc. Christopher Moreno, a 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team soldier from Ames, Oklahoma, uses a protractor to determine an azimuth during the land navigation test of the Basic Leader Course at the ...

Land navigation is making a comeback as part of the Army’s Basic Leader Course (BLC) with a return to active-duty schools planned for this year. This shift in the curriculum for the BLC was a ...

Pennsylvania Army National Guard soldier shoots an azimuth using a lensatic compass during a land navigation event April 23, 2022 at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff ...