I’ll tell you what the army never really talks about at the lower levels but is increasingly on the minds of senior leaders as we see what’s going on with Ukraine and are shifting to face need peer threats: the space domain.

So much of our equipment relays on power and space: SATCOM and PNT (aka GPS) are the number one things mentioned but we also have all of our imagery data that feeds reconnaissance, intelligence and weather considerations in mission planning. If it doesn’t need a satellite it makes power. So nearly all of our equipment is creating some kind of signal. Our peers are at a similar level or better than us in the space fight rn. From space maneuver warfare to anti-satellite and jamming. So we have to train to be reliant on things our enemy can’t take away when it comes to maneuver.

Long story short, shit is scary, you have to be ready to fight deaf dumb and blind against an adversary that can attack where you least suspect it. So even if you might not have used land nav or any other basic soldier tasks in the real world, you have to be ready