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Never Get Lost: A Green Beret's Guide to Land Navigation
Land Navigation is a life skill. A critical life skill. With the ubiquitous nature of GPS, smartwatches, and phones it’s also a dying art. Learning to read a map, knowing how to plot a route, and understanding the little tasks required to walk through the woods from point A to point B…and to
never get lost
…will serve you well. This book will teach this skill, and so much more.
Written as a guide for aspiring US Army Special Forces Candidates, this book takes land navigation to the next level. Land navigation is a central skill for Special Forces Assessment and Selection, causing nearly half of all SFAS failures. Land navigation is also critical to every Army commissioning source, most NCOES Schools, many tactical schools, and just plain old fundamental Soldiering skills.
Dr. David Walton is an expert land navigator with over three decades of advanced navigational experience. He is also an expert teacher and skilled writer. He takes the reader through this often dreary topic and explains it in a sensible way, provides practical application advice, applies his signature wit and style, and makes the topic approachable and understandable.
You could read a Field Manual and be presented with correct information. You’ll also cure insomnia. Or you could read Never Get Lost . Learn from a true expert and get the correct information, with a good storyline, and more tips and tricks than any Field Manual could ever provide.
Written as a guide for aspiring US Army Special Forces Candidates, this book takes land navigation to the next level. Land navigation is a central skill for Special Forces Assessment and Selection, causing nearly half of all SFAS failures. Land navigation is also critical to every Army commissioning source, most NCOES Schools, many tactical schools, and just plain old fundamental Soldiering skills.
Dr. David Walton is an expert land navigator with over three decades of advanced navigational experience. He is also an expert teacher and skilled writer. He takes the reader through this often dreary topic and explains it in a sensible way, provides practical application advice, applies his signature wit and style, and makes the topic approachable and understandable.
You could read a Field Manual and be presented with correct information. You’ll also cure insomnia. Or you could read Never Get Lost . Learn from a true expert and get the correct information, with a good storyline, and more tips and tricks than any Field Manual could ever provide.
262 pages, Paperback
Published December 26, 2024
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January 20, 2026
Probably will still get lost. Less likely than before reading this book.
“I wisely started with a map.”
–J.R.R. Tolkien
“I wisely started with a map.”
–J.R.R. Tolkien
July 10, 2026
Great book helping me to refresh the basics. Will be getting his other prep books.
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