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BAOC - Orienteering in the Army
BAOC provides a British Orienteering club primarily for those with an association to the British Army, including their families and dependents, to enable participation in civilian orienteering.
The official side of Army Orienteering is run by the Army Orienteering Association (AOA) with the aim being to promote Orienteering as Military Training to the Army Community.
Orienteering, training or competitive, up to and including Army Team and Individual championships is classified as participating in ‘Individual Military Training’; a distinct form of navigation training, usually taking place in forest or hillside terrain and in urban areas (many unit areas are also now mapped) where it is possible to navigate freely between control points on foot i.e. not limited to tracks and paths.
It was originally used as a component of Military Annual Training Test (MATT) 5 – Navigation, a mandatory annual competence test for Army personnel. Army orienteers who compete on duty at higher competitive levels, e.g. Inter Services and UK Armed Forces, or abroad, are now classified as participating in Category 2 Sport.