Our buddy Nick follows the SOUTHERN CROSS and ends up in Tasmania chasing the Devils. I dropped out of the scouts like after three meetings, so I didn't pick up beans there. Where I learned how to read a compass was in BOOT CAMP. It was a LENSATIC COMPASS and it wasn't like find the north star. First, we threw a grenade, then ran to read the compass. "Look through the eyepiece, read the number, what are you reading?" That was it. From then on, I always wondered how a LENSATIC COMPASS actually worked, but I knew that was how you "SHOOT AN AZIMUTH". Then we threw another training grenade and the Drill instructor had his moment to kick me in the butt claiming that I must take cover behind the wall faster.