The Spanish Civil War DASL isn't the module slated to go on pre-order this year? The Module and the DASL are two different projects right?
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Sparafucil3
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As long as the guide isn't a Lieutenant.
I took orienteering at uni. I loved it. When I joined the Army and finally got to do it again, I loved it.
True story: I got to PLDC where we are first introduced to land navigation. I get my points, lets call them A, B, C, D. I walk them A, B, D, C and record the points on my sheet. This takes about 30 minutes for a 4 hour task. I spend the next 3 hours plotting all the points on the course--both the alphabetic and the numeric points. I return to base, turn in my sheet and was promptly failed. Remember I walked them A, B, D, C? That's how I recorded them too. I inverted the last two and was failed. I could live with that except another student shows up without a paper. He doesn't even know where he was supposed to go. The Senior instructor asks him what points he walked to, he gives him 4 points, and he is given a GO. I ask WTF? I am told to shut up and come back on Saturday.
Remedial training takes place on Friday. We are having a discussion about the course and what we might be going to. It quickly becomes clear that I have the WHOLE DAMNED COURSE mapped out on my map. The instructors ask me how I got this and I tell them I walked my course in 30 minutes and thought someone would need the help in remedial training never expecting it would be me. I even tell them about putting two points that had fallen over into the upright position. By now, everyone is plotting the points from my map onto theirs. Come the day of the retest, they issue me my points. I quickly plot them, pull the points I should be walking to, and turn in my results without ever walking more than 30 feet. I was golden. Not only was I golden, every recycle also passed. It was the first time they could remember getting a 100% pass rate. All because I #!$!@#$ writing down my points. Still makes me mad. -- jim
PresterJohn
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More entertaining is night navigation and night marching.
Usually a guide will be an orderly from the company headquarters if you are moving a platoon into a company position. Maybe a sergeant. ORs usually know where their "house" is and like to get back to it.
Usually a guide will be an orderly from the company headquarters if you are moving a platoon into a company position. Maybe a sergeant. ORs usually know where their "house" is and like to get back to it.
william.stoppel
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Correct. The DASL SCW scenarios are separate
wrongway149
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Got some more DASL coming, Bill (it's just better for aging eyeballs and hands.) -- but not sure if the topics you mention are in the line. (Nothing I am working, on anyways)Just keep cranking out the DASL Pete! The rest is unimportant.. I am looking forward to your Spanish Civil War and Arab Israeli War DASL (once Hasbro clears MMP to publish those of course).
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Even funnier is a Navy Ensign (airdale) doing land navigation in SERE school. Predictably, we ended up being “captured”…. Oh those were the days.As long as the guide isn't a Lieutenant.
I took orienteering at uni. I loved it. When I joined the Army and finally got to do it again, I loved it.
True story: I got to PLDC where we are first introduced to land navigation. I get my points, lets call them A, B, C, D. I walk them A, B, D, C and record the points on my sheet. This takes about 30 minutes for a 4 hour task. I spend the next 3 hours plotting all the points on the course--both the alphabetic and the numeric points. I return to base, turn in my sheet and was promptly failed. Remember I walked them A, B, D, C? That's how I recorded them too. I inverted the last two and was failed. I could live with that except another student shows up without a paper. He doesn't even know where he was supposed to go. The Senior instructor asks him what points he walked to, he gives him 4 points, and he is given a GO. I ask WTF? I am told to shut up and come back on Saturday.
Remedial training takes place on Friday. We are having a discussion about the course and what we might be going to. It quickly becomes clear that I have the WHOLE DAMNED COURSE mapped out on my map. The instructors ask me how I got this and I tell them I walked my course in 30 minutes and thought someone would need the help in remedial training never expecting it would be me. I even tell them about putting two points that had fallen over into the upright position. By now, everyone is plotting the points from my map onto theirs. Come the day of the retest, they issue me my points. I quickly plot them, pull the points I should be walking to, and turn in my results without ever walking more than 30 feet. I was golden. Not only was I golden, every recycle also passed. It was the first time they could remember getting a 100% pass rate. All because I #!$!@#$ writing down my points. Still makes me mad. -- jim
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YES! VASL must be having problems of some sort, as it is going on 5 months since the boards and overlays came out but that is a lot of work, way more than most modules. It must be causing the delay. I want to play Twilight of the Reich in VASL bad but have to be patient... hopefully soon.
There is usually a lag of a few months with the MMP products to give them a chance to get out the door. In the big scheme of things, that seems fair.
Tuomo
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No, it's not.
PresterJohn
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We need some tee-shirts "the V in VASL is for volunteer".
I will get on it.
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Inspirational leadership if I've ever seen it....
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Never Again Volunteer Yourself. They tell you right in the name.
Blaze
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I was aces is our concise SERE like training. Except for the "Evasion" part. I was the very first one captured...
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You beat me to it!
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Good way to explain concealment and recon by fire.
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My Marine buddies had a similar moniker for ARMY….