Penn State Army ROTC cadets train in the Stone Valley Forest. The Army ROTC cadets use the Army's crawl, walk, and run training method. You may be walking by the Wagner Building on a Thursday evening and you see a lot of cadets in Battle Dress Uniform laying down on one of the athletic fields. This is the crawl phase of the training on battle drills. What you don't see is the walk phase or the run phase, as these are trained on in the 6750 acre Stone Valley Forest. The use of the PSU School of Forest Resources land is critical to developing these cadets in to well-trained effective leaders. The challenge of moving thru the forest and maintaining good command and control of squad and platoon sized elements in the dark gives these soon to be lieutenants the necessary knowledge thru experience they need. The cadets also learn and practice their land navigation skills on courses set up along Shaver Creek.

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