What fun is GPS is you end up with all of the second lieutenants pointing to north in the same direction?
What fun is GPS is you end up with all of the second lieutenants pointing to north in the same direction?
The military, more than any other org, is trained on how to navigate when all GPS is lost.
At least I would hope so.
The rest of us will never get home.
Of course, some people have always been that way. My wife could be watching a sunrise and still not be able to tell you which way was east.
One of my now deceased buddies was stationed on the Potomac during WWII. He said...you wouldn’t believe how fast we topo’d the Capitol and all the surrounds.
Most dangerous thing in the field is a 2nd Lt with a map and a compass.
When GPS first came out it was great, but in the Navy we were still required to dual plot.
Previously whether using Loran or another electronic nav system the precision was such that you had to do sightings during transit of certain locations.
GPS was precise enough that we didn’t really have to do that. But the assumption was that we would lose the ability during a conflict, so we still had to do visual sightings and learn celestial navigation.
It’s been over 20 years now. I’m guessing the triangulations are still a part, but that celestial nav has been lost. I’m not even sure if they do REFTRA (refresher training) which really stressed the ship’s complement to find every possible point of operational failure and where improvement could occur.