That’s way more impressive than his hair, which is really fucking saying something. He was previously with 4th Bn, 9th Inf., where he once humped all 25 miles of the Manchu Mile carrying a Barrett. A combat veteran of both Iraq (where he served as a scout) and Afghanistan (where he served as a senior sniper), Brabant is currently assigned to 5th Bn, 20th Inf. Primary: Subscribe to our newsletter here, get the RSS feed and support us on Patreon right here.Īlternate: Join us on Facebook here or check us out on Instagram here.Ĭontingency: Exercise your inner perv with us on Tumblr here, follow us on Twitter here or connect on Google + here.Įmergency: Activate firefly, deploy green (or brown) star cluster, get your wank sock out of your ruck and stand by ’til we come get you.Ībout the Author: Brent Brabant is a currently serving as an instructor at AMIC (Advanced Army Marksmanship Course) at JBLM. You will not get to the correct point otherwise in land navigation if all your equipment isn’t up to par.

To sum it all up, if your shit’s fucked up, fix it. If any of these pieces are broken you should turn it in and get a new one. The reading lens is mounted in a movable arm attached to the base and folds to lay flat on the dial to protect the compass when closed. The base is the other half that contains the floating compass dial. The cover is the folding part that contains the sighting wire. There are three parts to a compass: cover, base and reading lens. When doing your reading make sure your compass isn’t next to your weapon or any other metal object, as this can throw off your reading. If it’s broke there ain’t much you can do but get another one. They not only will hold my map but also pens and paper, and guard them against the elements. I’ve been using Ziploc baggies to hold my maps since before I had to use them for dime bags. The plastic covers that you get at Office Depot are open on one side, so those aren’t the best. So, let’s protect the map we have against the elements. It will only be a small section of a larger map that probably just has the training area you are in. Whether you are doing land nav in Fort Lewis, Washington or Fort Benning, Georgia, the training area map you’ll get is going to suck. Chances are the Army will give you a photo copy of what used to be a shitty map when you’re doing land navigation. Now you have a way of getting a correct azimuth. Thread it through the hole in the protractor and tie a knot on the other end so it doesn’t slip through. Take out a piece of the white rope that’s inside of it and tie a knot on one end. You only need about three inches, and, of course, you should know what three inches looks like. The second part of the protractor we need to modify is the little hole in the center. God forbid you spend money on your craft. There are also different protractors you can buy in the civilian world if you don’t mind spending five to seven bucks, the same amount you spend every morning on a can of Copenhagen and a monster. This can be an easy fix: just take an exacto knife and cut it on the line. It has excess plastic on all its scale sizes that needs to be cut off, because if you don’t remove it you could end up one to two hundred meters away from your known point. The standard military issue protractor sucks. Since you probably need it, I’m going to show you some tips and tricks to help in land navigation.įirst, let’s look at the tools we need. When is the last time you motherfuckers practiced land navigation? I’m not talking about Google maps to that girl you met on Tinder (Grinder), but actually going in the field to practice basic land navigation using your map, compass, and protractor. Ok, listen up all you military people who go to the range practicing mag changes, BSA drills, and first round shot drills. Just The Tip: Setting Yourself Up For Success In Land Navigation

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