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

Sorry but this needs to stay. If there ever is a nuclear war and we get hit with an EMP todays GPS tools will be useless. What happens then. You be the judge.

Hard to add to the straight talk on the matter that is already here!

Hands on training on this subject remains a must as stats can be shot down, GPS can be screwed in any number of ways...you should always have backup for everything possible!

No. It should be well taught in boot camp and thoroughly reinforced at every level of training thereafter. And it should be taught old school because technology fails.

Absolutely NOT! It is the basics of a Soldier's field craft.

No I don't think it should be taken out out.Yes you have GPS now days but if GPS failed the compus won't. Giving you better connection between you and the terrain.

Only after everyone has successfully completed the course! When electronics go south, you got to fine the target or the way home.

Somebody has to figure out how some 2LT got lost and where they are - that used to be me. My CPA years were predicated on being able to look at numbers and figure out if they bore any relationship to the truth - which was a mental calculation. It helped me correct course many times - why would anyone consider ignoring one of our most basic skills, especially if the equipment does not work?

Definitely not ! This is a skill that it very important to have .

What a terrible question. Every NCO should be able to navigate confidently. NCO development courses are the perfect place to reinforce these skills. Yes, it should be a go/no go situation. There is no such thing as being partially correct when navigating.

Land navigation is the basic foundation upon which you build the essential skills necessary in later ranks employ and deploy appropriate assets. Regardless of your mos land nab gives you the basic to either conduct an assault or establish the best point to place a forward logistics element, et al. Without the fundamentals of land nav the future prospects of development are bleak