Hi,
One of the thing you need to have to doas a commander in the IDF, and in military reserve, is to have navigation skilles.
You learn a bit how to navigate in commander course, and more in officer course. If you are in ine of the elite units you spend couple of weeks only navigating in different terrain. I did only commander course, and I missed the navigation week because I do learn how to command on a D9 (I even drive one a bit 🙃). I had couple of days in the end of the course to only understand the basics of findIing my way on the field in case I got lost.
The theory is not hard: You need to learn how to read a map, find the best way between points, learn it by heart and then go out at night and walk this way without open a map by using a compass and counting steps. In practice it is harder, mainly because it is at night and the terrain looks different at night than on day light.
And this how I navigate on this military reserve. Well, almost 😏. Except the point I had to open my cellphone, find google maps and followed the direction it pointed me to….
I was not so good at navigation before I got drafted that I used to laugh at myself that I will get drafted to 669 (the Airborne Combat Rescue And Evacuation Unit). But not as the one rescuing soldiers, but as the one that got lost and the unit has to locate and rescue him….
Take Care
Gad
Not large, but hard enough to get lost
In the day we did not have to navigate, “only” to walk on the sun
Training on open a cross in a minefield