As a leader do you feel that Land Navigation should be taken out from the Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development System (NCOPDS)?

Definitely no no no no!! When every system fails you have your good ole compass, watch, rifle and boots to get you where you need to go. Don't lose the fundamentals.

Electronic equipment does not always work ... so the old standard low tech solutions should continue to be taught and trained ...

Easy answer. NO. If you can't read and navigate by map you obviously don't need to be an NCO. Semper Fi. this is a basic military skill.

oh Hell no...
Old School Land Nav should be taught and especially with a Map and Compass...
One of these Days some one is going to get stupid and Nuke the Satellites and there is going to be No More GPS... so they will need to know how to Use a Map and Compass... or just wonder around aimlessly ... LBS... Lost Bigger than "Stuff"

We've seen the good answer for when technology craps out. So you need to pack your plastic and china markers as well. That said, sometimes things change which makes a skill so obsolete, it's not taught anymore. For me it was learning how to write backwards. When you worked the edge lit plexiglas vertical plots, you didn't want to be standing between the officer who needed the info and the plot. So we stood behind it in the dark and wrote with white china markers backwards. At some point they made all the VPs go away in favor of screens on the bulkhead. Tied directly into the sensors, much faster, and no human error in transcription. Some skills like Morse Code and even tap code could save your bacon, but the odds of needing it is very remote. So with a fixed training time and money to do it, they push out what you need 95+% of the time. The LandNav is so you can be a viable asset when tech goes south vs. just being lost in space.

First, we are saying the next war when we are still in the current wars, Iraq and Afghanistan are not over and Soldiers/Marines are in a gun fight right now! The tools of our craft are always being refined, land navigation is one of the most basic, fundamental, foundational, (what ever you want to call it) skills a Soldier can master. (When I say Soldier I mean all branches)
I recently sent two cyber candidates to the US Army Ranger School, and boom you guessed it, land navigation kicked their butt and they must try again. We can become as fancy and as tech as we want, but don't forget we still are fighting people who do not need a GPS and could care less about mass data collection on the battle field.

I think land navigation is a perishable skill that every Soldier must know. Basic Training-YES...BLC-YES... I don't think, however, that it should be included into every NCOPDS. In BLC, Soldiers are still learning basic skills and knowledge of how to be an NCO. It is one of the first phases of the development system where it's MOS immaterial. Here is where land navigation should remain. As for all other courses, ALC, SLC, MLC, etc., Soldiers are now learning the specifics of their military occupational specialty and they should be learning the systems of what's being used out in the force. CPOF, JCR, for example, are tools that should be included instead of land navigation- and maybe they already are. I'm not quite sure, but systems such as these are what Soldiers should be learning. Land navigation, specifically for my MOS as a 19D, should be a continuous lesson re-enforced at the unit level, at least quarterly, not at the school house. When you go out to the field nowadays most Soldiers are carrying GPSs that they have bought instead of the compass they should have purchased. Times are indeed changing. It's sometimes hard to adjust.

No! since our adversaries will blind Us in the next war and GPS may be compromised . We need to keep map reading/land navigation is relevant.

It is a skill that should be taught in all leadership courses up to senior leadership courses, in the year and a half in a war zone and seeing electronics fail, the good old compass, map and stubby pencil always worked

It is a basic soldier skill. The land nav skill required to graduate BLC is very low. A person does not need any prior knowledge of land nav to follow the instructions given by the SGLs. The courses are self correcting. Any soldier in good enough physical condition to hustle around the land nav course, can literally plot their way around by the tags they find on the posts.

In other words the land nav thought at BLC is basic enough every soldier should be able to do it.