Lots of great tips in this thread.
Along with trusting your pace count, compass, plotting a course encompassing terrain features you can recognize (with your feet and center of gravity), and using a backstop, I used a "deliberate off shoot". Shoot an azimuth left or right of your target to a good terrain feature, then you know which direction the target is in relation to that terrain feature. It made tactical land nav a breeze for me and help with setting up OPs and Rally Points on patrols. For lighting, we used a glow stick or red/blue lens flashlight under a poncho, to plot courses.
For God and the soldier we adore, In time of danger, not before! The danger passed, and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." - Rudyard Kipling
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