Orienteering Orienteering is a sport in which orienteerers use an accurate, detailed map and a compass to find points in the landscape. It can be enjoyed as a walk in the woods or as a competitive sport. A standard orienteering course consists of a start, a series of control sites that are marked by circles, connected by lines and numbered in the order they are to be visited, and a finish. On the ground, a control flag marks the location that the orienteer must visit. To verify a visit, the orienteer uses a punch hanging next to the flag to mark his or her control card.
Different punches make different patterns of holes in the paper.
Most orienteering events are held on Sundays in the local parks and forests. We normally meet early for a short class on orienteering, transport to the event in government vans, conduct the event, eat a yummy MRE or have a cook out, and return to campus. For more information and schedule . The National Society of Pershing Rifles is an ROTC-affiliated military honor society, headquartered at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, with chapters at colleges and universities across the nation. John Joseph Pershing established the organization in the late 1800s as Company A, a crack rifle drill unit.