Advanced Military Land Navigation

Advanced Military Land Navigation course will help you to enhance your land navigation ability over challenging terrain, both day and night. Your training will stress the importance of fundamentals. We will fine-tune your ability to dead-reckon over short to moderate distances and terrain associate and route-plan over longer ones. We appreciate that your skills may be rusty since you’ve been primarily using electronic tools to move overland (or underwater), or your current mission role doesn’t require navigation tasks, so we will review and refine your skills as needed.

This training is designed for service members—and those in the recruitment or preparation pipeline, like 18X or SFRE—with an established foundation in land navigation, or have recently completed our Baseline Military Land Navigation course. Prior clients have included personnel from across the special operations community, many of whom attend as part of their preparation for highly selective assessments.

Highlights

When outcomes matter, clients choose True North for the quality of our instruction:

• Built for high-stakes preparation: Our courses are designed for candidates preparing for demanding assessments. Small class sizes and well planned training days ensure focused learning and meaningful development.
• Highly skilled instructors: Training is led by experienced professionals who adapt instruction to the individual, identifying and refining performance areas that matter under assessment conditions.
• Trusted by the SOF community: True North has extensive experience working with the special operations community—both individually and at the unit level—across Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Navy components.
• Proven training environment: Instruction takes place in a training area used by the SOF community that provides an ideal learning environment for all skill levels.
• Focused on outcomes, not volume: We intentionally limit class size and instructor-to-student ratios to preserve training quality, accountability, and meaningful performance gains.

This course is run as two day sessions followed by two evening sessions. Each day begins at 0900 and concludes by 1600; and each evening begins at approximately 1730 and concludes by 2130 (the exact timeframe varies according to the season).

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The physical difficulty of this course is Moderate to Strenuous. This course walking over varying distances at a steady pace over varying terrain that will include off-trail sections, rough spots, unexpected obstacles, and low to steep terrain inclines and declines. This course is conducted in varying weather conditions, including hot, cold, humid, rain, and snow, or a mixed combination. This is a physically challenging course so it is best suited for those in very good physical condition and ready for a fast paced day.

Once you book a slot, then one of our staff will follow up personally with an email. It will include three short forms for you to complete and return to us. We will also send you the course information sheet, which will contain all of the details that you will need to prepare and arrive (like required and optional gear; exact rally point; general driving directions; and overnight recommendations).

This course is often conducted as a private offering to better accommodate the specific needs, goals, and schedules of an individual or group. Please note that if you see a class on our schedule listed as a “Private Group,” you may still be able to join so don't hesitate to inquire (in many cases, these sessions are scheduled for an individual client who is willing to share the training, which can also reduce overall costs). Please contact Erik for additional details (412.913.6000 or erik@exploretruenorth.com).

We typically reply to emails and telephone calls within 1-2 hours. Please note, however, that it may be as long as 24 hours if we are away teaching.