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HONOLULU, Hawaii (Tribune News Service) Two Army ROTC cadets visiting from the mainland were rescued Sunday after spending the night lost in a jungle warfare course in Wahiawa. Lt. Col. Curtis Kellogg, spokesman for the Army’s 25th Infantry Division, said two college students became lost while participating Saturday in land navigation training in Schofield Barracks…

HONOLULU, Hawaii (Tribune News Service) Two Army ROTC cadets visiting from the mainland were rescued Sunday after spending the night lost in a jungle warfare course in Wahiawa.

Lt. Col. Curtis Kellogg, spokesman for the Army’s 25th Infantry Division, said two college students became lost while participating Saturday in land navigation training in Schofield Barracks East Range. The cadets were in the jungle operations training course, which is about 6 square miles covered with dense vegetation.

I've spent a fair amount of time in East Range, and some of the terrain is pretty amazing, but it's just not that big of an area. 

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  1. timactual

    Snort LOL. Lost for 24 hrs. with ground and airborne searchers. That is a thorough job of lost.
    Is that a record?

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  2. C-90

    Butter bar wannabe’s lost on a land-nav course, doesn’t bode good for the troops, they’ll eventually command.

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  3. Quartermaster

    Prospective 2Lts with a map.
    I’m guessing there was some terrain feature, or even civilization, that one could strike by taking a compass course and sticking to it. Getting a mite confused, as Daniel Boone expressed, is one thing. There is no excuse for getting “lost.”

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  4. 7711C20

    I have not been there in 38 years, so it has to more improved now, I was with two other sergeants that verified the land nav course back in the day prior to an EIB qualifications. Also the area has those flat brown things called dirt roads. How can you get lost on the East Range in daylight,the article stated they did not return by noon. Then, I am assuming you have a map and a compass and you know how to use each or are they using GPS now. Then again we are talking about almost 2 LTs, we never had a PV2 newbee do that.

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  5. RetRsvMike

    Let’s see now. Two college students,lost in the jungle for 24 hours, within a 6 square mile box, while being searched for…. I’m gonna be guessing some hanky panky may have been the root cause of the extended “being lost” situation…
    Wink wink, nudge nudge…

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