Army Orienteering Association
- AOA Mission
The aim of the Army Orienteering Association (AOA) is to promote orienteering to the Army community, as an essential military skill, through participation in military leagues and championship events.
Military Training
Essential navigation skills
Competitions
Championships & leagues
Coaching
Novice to advanced
Military Excellence
Promoting orienteering as essential military training
- Events and Training Classification
Individual Military Training (IMT)
These events are open to all service personnel and civilian orienteers (by DIO licence) offering courses at three levels of technical difficulty: TD3, 4 & 5. Coaching to novices is available at most events. Orienteering, training or competitive, up to and including Army Team and Individual championships is classified as participating in ‘Individual Military Training’ (IMT).
Category 2 Sport
Army orienteers who compete at higher competitive levels, such as Inter Services (Army v Navy v RAF) and UK Armed Forces (UK Armed Forces team v Police/University) matches are classified as participating in Category 2 Sport.
Core Training Support
Orienteering complements Core Health and Fitness and supports Core Combat Skills (Navigation) Individual Training requirements (ITRs) for Army personnel. This is a distinct form of navigation training, usually taking place in forest or hillside terrain and in urban areas where it is possible to navigate freely between control points on foot.
- Training Courses
Professional orienteering skills development at Longmoor Camp, Surrey
Basic Orienteering Skills
Advanced Orienteering Skills
Advanced Level
Intermediate Orienteering Skills
Intermediate Level
Orienteering Planners
Specialist
Booking: These courses can be booked through the ASPT system by all serving military, or direct with the Courses officer by non-military personnel. The dates of future courses are detailed in the Calendar page, along with links to the booking emails.
- AOA SharePoint Service
Access for serving military personnel
Military Personnel Access
Access relevant documents, forms, and military-specific orienteering resources
- Regional Leagues
Military orienteering leagues across the UK
- League
- Secretary
- Contact
- Status
- AOA Contacts
Get in touch with AOA officials
- Order
- Role
- Name
- Contact
- Historical Results
Access archived Army Orienteering Association competition results
AOA Historical Results Archive
A consolidated archive of past AOA championships, league results, and historical competition data.