Land Navigation Manual: How to Use the Military Grid Reference System

[livingston]

Land Navigation Manual: How to Use the Military Grid Reference System
If you’ve read the first parts of this land navigation manual, you should now know how to read a topographic map, find your bearings, and orient yourself with a map and compass.

You’re ready to start doing some serious land navigation. With the aid of modern technology at the outset, you can get a whole lot more specific with your land nav; rather than just finding your way to a major landmark, you can locate a little stake in the ground.

To do that, you plot MGRS (military grid reference system) coordinates on your map before you head out. Why would you want to employ this old/new method of land nav?

So you can be antifragile.

Land Navigation: Using MGRS Coordinates | The Art of Manliness

 

[4excal]

I'm confused already..

• 3046 (this is our easting coordinate — the vertical lines that run north/south on your map).
• 9530 (this is our northing coordinate — the horizontal lines that run east/west on your map).

 

[holdover]

Its not easy to obtain Military maps of your area, that I know of .I use civilian maps , which arnt really meant for calling in fire , but it gets the job done for what I need .

""Why would you want to employ this old/new method of land nav?""

You should ask yourself this question when you climb out of a stream and find out your waterproof GPS isn't. or when you reah down to grab your GPS and find out that somebody in the woods must have stolen it !!!!!!! (or it fell out somewhere) And just in case you ever wanted to be a little incognito,You may as well be carrying a tracking device .