Map Reading and Land Navigation Kindle Edition

I am a veteran tanker, map reading and land navigation is a given skill to be a tank commander and this is the book I trained on. It is strictly a no-nonsense map reading manual used by the military, oh it has changed a bit since I first read it, but not that much. This is a skill to be used in the field with a map, compass and protractor. It is comprehensive and has everything explained in terms that any NCO grunt can understand. Officers sometimes have problems reading it.

Not sure if this manual normally includes the protractor like the one that I received. I doubt there is a more comprehensive and complete guide to land navigation to be had

Great book. I am now a civilian for many years and like so many other civilians I just use Rand McNally road maps to get from place to place. I am severely short of remembering how to use the map tools available so this book is a number one winner for me. Extremely detailed and well laid out for self instructions. I am very pleased with this purchase.There are some who claim that you can find this same book on the web in PDF. They are correct and I did as well, but you have to be nuts to try and print out all these pages even with a double sided printer. You simply can't beat mass production especially when the publisher buys ink by the 55 gallon drum and you buy it by expensive cartridges.Now since you most likely don't have military maps I have found and downloaded my area and other closely related area city maps with the utilities, waterways, traffic, population, etc.. just in case of internal war if gun grabber, traitor Clinton should win. Maybe you should too.I do keep a copy on my computer anyway just in case I need a copy desperately and the paper one gets stolen, lost or damaged. I can always to go my saved places and open up a copy. And don't forget to buy your Mountain House survival food.(...) You are the resistance

I wish I could have found my old ROTC "orienteering" manual for Platoon Leaders. It was the Cold War's FM that preceded this one and which I recall as being an easier (less verbose and convoluted) read. On the other hand, but in a similar vein, the first several pages of this FM are personally amusing to me. Because they explain--in the typically obtuse DoD style--the need for ALL ranks to be properly versed in using a GI compass and to be effective in all manners of map reading. Being an old warhorse myself, I love the way it indirectly, and with much politically correct word choice, explains how the days are long gone when only LT's and other officers were deigned worthy of being the official map-keepers-and-readers.I'm not judging--just observing. What do I know about Today's Army? On the other hand, I don't mind admitting a strong nostalgia for when I was an officer-and-a-gentleman-by-Act-of-Congress. Back then, the only sidearm in my platoon was the 1911 on my hip; and unit's sole our radio man was effectively connected to my other hip. I controlled the maps, the comms and--only technically, of course--the Platoon Sergeant (our Sergeant 1st Class, or "SFC" or "Top Kick").The company commander would receive orders from our CO and relay them to me. I'd then use the basic orienteering skills they taught us during my senior year summer ROTC training to plot our best course. Then I'd confer with "Top," who would politely "confirm and clarify" the orders in a way that always included a dozen or so considerations that I'd overlooked. I'd then tell him, in my most stalwart, confident manner that it sounded like we were on the same page...Good times...

Very informative but it is a read.

It's thorough and what I expected. I did this training years ago but was feeling rusty so I bought this, a decent compass and a few local maps to get brushed up.

This civilian reprint of the Dept of the Army FM 3-25.26. Is a wondeful addition to my library.

Batteries fail and electronics break. This is a good reference for working with a map and compass.

Very american based map reading and me being from the UK this is a bit to smerican for an english style of map reading.

The print is of poor quality.

military style: just waht you need to know about land navegation. I like the way it is written, you don't need an instructor. clear language.

great book, easy read, and to follow the instructions,