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Marines cheated on a Land Nav training at Marine Corps TBS at Quantico
  • Topic created by Bob on Tue Jun 22, 2010 at 8:27 am
    Robert Smith (Bob)
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    This was discussed on Michael Smerconish's radio show Tuesday morning.   WPHT 1210am  http://www.smerconish.com/
    http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/06/navy_marine_ballard_cheating_060510w/

    Newly commissioned officers are required to attend TBS where they learn how to lead an infantry platoon. Part of that training includes 9½ hours of classroom study, during which they are taught how to use a map, compass and protractor to plot grid coordinates and how to use terrain association to keep from getting lost. The students also complete 41 hours in the field where they conduct multiple practical applications.

    The land navigation training concludes with a final examination in which students have seven hours to find 10 boxes spread throughout 14 square miles of heavily wooded terrain, TBS spokesman Maj. Jeffrey Landis said.

    The cheating was discovered last fall after instructors compared current answer sheets to those used on previous tests and discovered that several wrong answers matched correct answers on the old test, TBS Commander Col. George W. Smith Jr. told Navy Times.

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