Land navigation is making a comeback as part of the Army's Basic Leader Course, or BLC, with a pilot program starting in the coming months and full return to active-duty schools planned for next year.

FORT POLK, La. -- Infantrymen from 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, in Utah to train for an upcoming deployment, began off-post training with land navigation at Camp W.G. Williams, ...

FORT RILEY, Kan. -- Parents, spouses, children and siblings who have been awarded the Gold Star pin by the Department of Defense of the loss of a loved one in the line of duty met for a land ...

Celestial Navigation (CELNAV) is one skill that has not been formally taught to Navy officers, depending on one's commissioning source, for more than 15 years. Based on direction from the Chief of ...

"Raise your hand if you have ever determined your location on the planet using the stars," Lt. Daniel Stayton tells his class at the U.S. Naval Academy. A young officer halfheartedly puts up her hand.

The Basic School for Marine Officers is reeling from a cheating scandal that involved six second lieutenants accused of wrongfully obtaining and sharing key grid points for the night land navigation ...

A photo of the Fort Jackson water tower aboard Fort Jackson S.C., on Sept. 4, 2014. (Sgt. Mark E. Morrow/Marine Corps) COLUMBIA, S.C. — A 40-year-old Army staff sergeant training to be a drill ...

As an instructor you may spend hours preparing your Canvas course(s) each semester: uploading and organizing content, setting up the Gradebook, scheduling class meetings, etc. With all of that hard ...

Robots and self-driving cars have one very large challenge in common, how to navigate the world. Typically, that task is approached by artificial intelligence as a problem of how to map the ...

Building a fullfledged satellite navigation system, on the same scale as Galileo or its American, Russian or Chinese counterparts, would cost billions of dollars and take years. Credit: ...

OnCourse Goggles utilize the magnetic field of our beautiful Earth and are for ANY swimmer who swims in open water for recreation, endurance or competition and will guide you straight. USAT Approved ...