Jackel
Verified Military
I own a 5.11 Field Watch. My question is can you change the compass from degrees to mils?? Couldn't find it anywhere in the manual, didn't know if I missed something. Thanks
Add a nought.
??? Are you saying 90 degrees becomes 900 mils? There're 6400 mils in a circle, so 90 degrees should equal to 1600 mils...
http://www.unitconversion.org/angle/degrees-to-mils-conversion.html
Off the top of my head its about 17 mils to a degree. In all honesty mate if your using a watch to navigate your seriously farked, I have one on my Casio but have never used it. I do like the altimeter for tuning my map to ground though.
Sorry mate, my bad, it's been a while, you're right. The U.S. military standardised to make North as 6400 mils, South is 3200 and so on, so just make a mental note of the four cardinal points in degrees (E90, S180, W240 & N390) and you're laughing. The intercardinal points (NE, SE etc) will come later. There seems to be compasses you can buy which have both but I doubt if they're issued kit.
I own a 5.11 Field Watch. My question is can you change the compass from degrees to mils?? Couldn't find it anywhere in the manual, didn't know if I missed something. Thanks
Why do you want to do that?
The Army works off degrees (except arty) do the Marines use mils?
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I have always used a g shock overseas and for diving but I got a nixon surf watch (on the right) a year ago so I had something that didn't scream military. We do a lot of international travel for JPAC and we try to reduce our military profile. We used to get issued the marathon dive watches, which I am a huge fan of, and I wear that a lot as well but not everyday because I like having a timer on my watch for working out etc. I like the tritium on the marathon watch as well. I have been issued a ton of suuntos but that shit is too high speed and complicated for me. I had a suunto shit the bed on me in the Arctic on an exercise (-35 degrees btw) while Mr G shock took a lickin' and kept on tickin'. I also had a suunto start giving me bad bearings during an advanced evasion course. I use a large wrist mounted compass to back up my issue compass now.