Marines navigate jungle during training course

Photo By Spc. Leigh Campbell | (From left to right) Pvt. Luther L. Simonds, Pfc. Christian A. Fish and Lance Cpl. Jose A. Colon shoot an azimuth while Pfc. Chase L. Walker counts his paces up ahead during land navigation training Jan. 11 at the Central Training Area.  

CENTRAL TRAINING AREA, OKINAWA, JAPAN

01.22.2007

Courtesy Story

III Marine Expeditionary Force   

By Lance Cpl. Richard Blumenstein
III Marine Expeditionary Force PAO

CENTRAL TRAINING AREA, OKINAWA, Japan -- For some Marines, walking through the woods with a compass in hand plotting points on a map is a distant memory from boot camp, Marine Combat Training or The Basic School. But for Marines with Combat Engineer Company, Combat Assault Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, the memory is a little fresher.

Marines with the unit set out to review basic land navigation skills to maintain mission readiness and improve their skills in the field Jan. 11 at the Central Training Area, according to 2nd Lt. Brent L. Kershaw, the 1st platoon commander with Combat Engineer Co.

Basic land navigation is the ability to navigate through any terrain while using a lensatic compass, map and techniques such as terrain association, a skill essential to the combat engineer military occupational specialty, Kershaw said.

• Date Taken: 01.22.2007
• Date Posted: 01.22.2007 14:36
• Story ID: 8886
• Location: CENTRAL TRAINING AREA, OKINAWA, JP