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Institution courses are designed to prepare the soldier for a more advanced duty position inhis unit. The critical soldiering skills of move, shoot, and communicate must be trained,practiced, and sustained at every level in the schools as well as in the unit. The map readingand land navigation skills taught at each level are critical to the soldiering skills of the dutyposition for which he is being school-trained. Therefore, they are also a prerequisite for acritical skill at a more advanced level. ... Read more

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good information
all you need as a military man for mapping skills are on this book .
but , the pictures are in black and white and some are not clear without color . and about the GPS subject there is nothing just an old summery .

old edition
There are newer editions than this one.You need a magnify glass to read the print,it's so small.....

Military Manual
While the Alaskan woodsman may find this useful--I would warn any civilian that this manual is meant for the military.I came by it looking for information on the lensatic compass, which is a compass primarily used by the military. This manual is useful for using military maps and other military oriented subjects (e.g., UTM map coordinates).On the other hand, this isn't what the average civvy user will be using.You will probably be out there in the field with a silva (or suunto or brunton) compass if not a GPS and a USGS or ordinance survey map and not too terribly worried about what platoon (or artillery battery, etc.)is out there: in fact, you would know enough to avoid going near those areas.This means that most civilian map reading and land nav skills are fairly basic and don't require the specialisation found in this manual.On the other hand, you would be well advised to read this if you are either going to have military experience, or need the specialised land nav skills that are discussed in this book (i.e., using a lensatic compass).It's more a curiousity than a necessity for the average person oncivvy street who wants to learn land nav.

A Woodsman
I spend a great deal of time in the woods, and have read many books on land navigation (orienteering).There are better and worse, but this one is the best I have read so far and is really on the money.It seems that most of the navigation books are written by people who spend more time learning to writethan to navigate.Nothing wrong with that, since I know I don't write the best, but I do know how to navigate.I haven't been lost more than two or three times in about the last five years, and when I was, I just followed the basic rules (find a creek and follow it downstream, or a powerline, etc.) and got out in a couple days.This is the best book on navigation. ... Read more

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Many people don't realize that the Bush administration changed U.S. military policy, particularly towards Iraq, after the congressional elections of 2006. The start of the 110th Congress in 2007, and the shift in Congressional power, also coincided with the decline of the Rumsfeld-Cheney cabal that had been extremely influential in directing the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and U.S. military policy in general, prior to that.******The emerging direction of the new U.S. military and defense policy is more pragmatic, less ideological and quietly (though not explicitly) recognizes the failure of policies in the earlier years of the current administration.******The man epitomizing this change more than any other is Robert M. Gates, the man who replaced Donald Rumsfeld as the U.S. Secretary of Defense. With vast experience in public service as well as in academia (he has lectured at Universities like Yale and Georgetown, and was the interim Dean of the Business School at Texas A&M just before being selected to replace Mr. Rumsfeld), he has quietly reversed a number of older policies and brought a much needed pragmatic approach to U.S. policies abroad.******He is also a lively speaker with a great sense of humor. Here are his speeches, as released by the U.S. Department of Defense, from his inauguration to February 2008-the key period when a lot of these changes in U.S. policies were taking place. These provide a valuable insight into where U.S. defense and military policies are headed during the remaining days of the Bush administration. ... Read more

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The Department of Defense Dictionaryof Military and Associated Terms sets forthstandard US military and associatedterminology to encompass the joint activityof the Armed Forces of the United States inboth US joint and allied joint operations, aswell as to encompass the Department ofDefense (DOD) as a whole. These militaryand associated terms, together with theirdefinitions, constitute approved DODterminology for general use by all componentsof the Department of Defense. ... Read more

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The Department of Defense (DoD) has sought to take a proactive approach to its environmental concerns but has found it difficult to implement proactive policies in ways that affect decisions made throughout the organization.This study focuses on how commercial firms recognized as having the best environmental management practices in the country have implemented those practices. Among study findings DoD can learn a great deal from commercial firms. DoD should integrate environmental management with its core mission concerns and should develop a formal environmental management program to increase the likelihood that implementation will succeed. Finally, DoD can use Total Quality Management (TQM) to provide formal templates to verify its implementation approach, particularly in the area of pollution prevention. Effective proactive environmental management in central logistics activities could help lead DoD toward broad acceptance of TQM. ... Read more

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The Disability Evaluation System (DES) is a management tool used by theDepartment of Defense to determine the disposition of a service member whohas a medical condition that calls into question the member1s ability toperform his or her duties. The DES exists to evaluate service members withsuch medical conditions, remove those unable to fulfill their duties, anddetermine a disability rating for those who are removed. This book focuseson four major research tasks related to improving system performance:developing a basis for assessing DES outcomes, identifying issues ofvariability in DES policy application, conducting a DES training analysisand presenting recommended changes, and developing a method for continuouslymonitoring DES performance. As part of their findings, the authorsconstructed a set of desired system outcomes and from that framework suggestcomprehensive training and information management interventions to improveoverall system performance. The authors also identify groups of primary DESparticipants and outline the specific bodies of knowledge and skills theparticipants require to execute disability policy consistently throughoutthe military departments. ... Read more

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*Download Pentagon press conferences, speeches, testimony, statistics, and fact sheets;
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Too many outdated links
The book has some utility as a basic guide; but there are too many outdated links.On the cover, an address is given for "Updates available online to keep you current", but that address is outdatedand refers to another page, where there are no links to new military Websites.The index could be better. ... Read more