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To: libstripper

Hard to beat the old dead tree map -if- you know how to read one and know how to navigate. I can tell you from my experience in the Army and with the boy scouts ... most dont have a clue.


9 posted on 07/15/2019 12:51:38 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt - dad's wisdom)
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To: taxcontrol

Spent part of a summer with a couple of friends driving 10k miles all over the US with nothing but a Delorme Road Atlas.


15 posted on 07/15/2019 1:35:57 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: taxcontrol

taxcontrol wrote: “Hard to beat the old dead tree map -if- you know how to read one and know how to navigate. I can tell you from my experience in the Army and with the boy scouts ... most dont have a clue.”

Reminds me of my land navigation courses at Benning. Most don’t have a clue. We must have done land navigation six or seven times. The same dozen would get lost every time. The course was bounded by hardsurface roads. If you’re lost, just pick a direction, walk till you find a road, sit down, cadre will be by shortly.

I did know one artillery commander who would have every third field exercise without GPS, just maps and compass. Really pissed his troops off.

Hard to beat the old dead tree map -if- you know how to read one and know how to navigate. I can tell you from my experience in the Army and with the boy scouts ... most dont have a clue.


19 posted on 07/15/2019 2:51:40 PM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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