Posted on Nov 1, 2016
Army 2LT Leads Platoon 5KM Without Getting Lost, Awarded Medal
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Army 2LT Leads Platoon 5KM Without Getting Lost, Awarded Medal
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11A: Infantry Officer
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I have never been lost. Sometimes I had no earthly idea where I was, but I was not lost. :)
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SGM Mikel Dawson
Maj John Bell It wasn't that you were lost, you just came out at a different spot than you planned on.
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Maj John Bell
SGM Mikel Dawson - No that actually has never happened. The one time I was actually convinced I was lost; Fire Team night land navigation course set up by the Ranger Battalion at Ft Lewis. They usually invited Marines from NSB Bangor when they had some good training set up. Six km leg in the Olympic Rain forest. Final two clicks through a deep draw full of wild azaleas and rhododendrons, thickest vegetation I've ever been in, worse than the Congo River basin.
Damn the torpedoes! Onward! stuck to my course. Brought the HQ element of the Company out on the catch feature within 5 meters of the target ammo box on the catch feature. This is back in the days when the lensatic compass was king and nobody had heard of GPS. The Company 1st Sergeant, swore he was 15 minutes from killing me and calling for helo extraction at first light, because they would never find any of us otherwise. He even brought me coffee for a week out of respect for the land nav. Then it was back to "Get your own damn coffee, skipper".
Damn the torpedoes! Onward! stuck to my course. Brought the HQ element of the Company out on the catch feature within 5 meters of the target ammo box on the catch feature. This is back in the days when the lensatic compass was king and nobody had heard of GPS. The Company 1st Sergeant, swore he was 15 minutes from killing me and calling for helo extraction at first light, because they would never find any of us otherwise. He even brought me coffee for a week out of respect for the land nav. Then it was back to "Get your own damn coffee, skipper".
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Maj John Bell
SGM Mikel Dawson - Probably just as well. Grunts are a special breed. They will always rise to your expectations. Especially if there is a good sea story in it.
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I did not get lost as a Boy Scout (Eagle) as an EM, a cadet or as a company grade officer, built in compass and I know how to read a Topo map and the land. One time had a first sergeant try to tell me we were lost, I told ham "No we cross this saddle turn left when we hid the stream at the bottom of the valley and a bout 4 country miles down stream we will hit the bridge at the main road in to the Company area", he went along with it and that is exactly what happen. I was a 2LT, assigned as the Company XO of a Basic Training Company at the time and acting as the CO for three cycles. But then I was raised by a Airborne NCO who was a WWII, Korean war Combat Veteran from Texas or maybe it is being 11/16 native american.
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