Any ROTC Cadets or Officers went through advance camp (LDAC was the older term for it). Any advice and things you wish you knew?

NALC was the term before LDAC or Warrior Forge. Either your Bn prepared you for it or they didn't, there's not much you can do for the skills portion. It was really sad how many cadets i went with that had no idea how to conduct land nav or even how to hold a rifle, let alone shoot one. The biggest advice i could give is to work hard together and be at a minimum a team player, if not a team builder. Most cadets i went with had at least passable leadership skills, though some were what they would now call toxic. The cadets that did poorly were those that were arrogant know it alls or not team players. If everyone in your platoon works toward the success of your platoon then everyone will succeed. If they don't the TACs will know and everyone will suffer.

Funny , Advanced Camp is the used term during my time 20 years ago!

It’s not a difficult course to go through. My biggest advice is to not be a spotlight ranger and if you don’t know something, make sure it doesn’t impair your ability to make quick and reasonable decisions.

Have no worries about Land NAV. Even if u are 1st Regiment, the trails will still be there. They do a good job of preparing you for the course. Do some of your own review and studying. Make sure you use terrain features to help you as well and u will be fine. They don’t make it so hard for you to fail. They just make it challenging.

No one ever showed me how to make a bunk or run a buffer. Little things, but helpful.

Do you know what Reg you’re going to?

Land Nav. is a important part of your training. I went to Advance Camp at Lewis and let me tell you there is plenty of vegetation there. We had a day and night Land Nav. course. A portion of the class was in doors like in your class in college or in the Army map reading class. Best of Luck!

You should already know that you will be peer rated by those in your group. Keep that in your mind at all times, be the Johnny on the spot when someone needs help with their assignment if someone needs a pair of underwear- give them a pair, You are no longer a person but now a member of the group with a mission. Always get the mission accomplished. Check with the cadre, after receiving a new assignment ask if there are additional things to consider (dead zones, etc), Volunteer for everything. Your peers will remember it too. Best of Luck!

And I know this likely wasn't the proper name, evidently, however, we all called it "summer camp", at least, that was how I always heard it referred to, at any rate....

I very nearly was allowed to go when I was going Army ROTC as an undergrad, it was at Ft. Bragg at the time, I'd sprained an ankle, my run time went above limit, I wasn't allowed...that was when I'd submitted for USAF OTS, I had to apply twice, as I'd gotten a bad recommend from the ROTC faculty, I appealed it and was taken, I had to go through the program twice to get done, I was recycled once...I made the run time there by quite literally one second, I kid thee not...I called the ROTC faculty after I got back home after finishing, they were totally blown away, that was one of my very best days, I assure you...one guy I knew who'd gone through the Ft. Bragg program actually was allowed to go through Airborne and Ranger school as well, he also did something called Recondo, which I've never read much about, though I recall him mentioning it...the unit I was in used to train a good deal at West Point, we were in the barracks, the dining hall, the morning formations, the orienteering range, the obstacle course, and the rappelling cliff...the guy I mentioned actually once did a face-forward rappell down the cliff, so-called "Australian style", which totally blew my socks off, I still have the image quite clear in my mind watching him march down that cliff face first, my eyeballs practically fell out of my head, honest....