Another useful skill cadets learn is how to navigate using a map and compass. Cadets gain the same skills taught to soldiers so that they can plan operations and navigate any terrain.

First cadets learn to care for and use Ordnance Survey maps, plot and find six-figure grid references, calculate distances between points, and to recognise various conventional signs.

Two-star map and compass then introduces cadets to the Silva lightweight compass. Cadets learn to use and plot grid and magnetic bearings, to understand the three different types of north, to account for deviation of the grid-magnetic angle, and to understand contour lines and more advanced conventional signs.

With this knowledge they can draw up route cards to undertake night navigation exercises or orienteering competitions.