Always double check your azimuth
by James on Dec.16, 2009, under Personal
I was reading about the whole hikers wandering into Iran story today when I was reminded of something funny that happened during Basic Training.
My company was out on landnav. This essentially involves spending most of the day wandering around in the woods looking for wooden poles with numbers on them.
My squad was wandering around the woods when we ran into another squad from my platoon and they had the most interesting story to tell.
They had been a klick or so from our current position (I don’t recall the direction) when they had come across one of the many access roads that criss cross the woods. There they had run into a couple of sergeants who were quite surprised to see them.
It turns out that they had wandering onto an artillery range.
It’s times like these when knowing how to calculate a back-azimuth comes in handy.
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December 17th, 2009 on 09:54
Now only if the Scouts had done our orienteering training near an artillery range. I think more of them would have mastered the skill or we would have weeded out the dumb ones.