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U.S. Army Cadets To Test New Trainer for Land Navigation

The U.S. Military Academy will start testing a new land navigation training system within the next month, one year after a cadet collapsed and died during a land nav exercise held amid a heat wave.

The trainer was developed by the Training Brain Operation Center (TBOC), part of the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC).

The new computer simulation, formally called the VBS2 Land Navigation Trainer-West Point Course v1.0, will be tested with cadets for the first time during the summer training course. The program runs on the Army’s standard battlefield simulation system, Virtual Battlespace 2, and renders a world where students walk through terrain to reach a series of points.

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