Where to mount pace count beads?

[AspiringWarrior]

I'm an active duty AF officer prepping for a Guard SF tryout, so I don't have seasoned NCOs to ask about this stuff. I have some basic land nav training, but I've never used pace count beads before. Where do you mount them? Do you wear them like a bracelet, attach them to your pack, put them on your belt...? What seems to work best? Or (and perhaps I should have led with this) are they not worth using at all?

[Team Sergeant]

I wore mine somewhere in the temporal lobe region......

City boy?

[Trappertod]

Ditto, I remeber however when I went to Basic we wore them on our LBE. The beads tended to always find a way to work down the cord and your count was off. The temp lobe works best or as I saw a senior NCO one time do, he made lots of tick marks.

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

I wore mine somewhere in the temporal lobe region......

City boy?

[AspiringWarrior]

Copy superfluous and ineffective. As to my urban-dwelling tendencies...yeah, I'd say that's a pretty accurate description.

[CSB]

http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...read.php?t=446

An old thread but a good one.

Especially, see post number 10...

... that Pathfinder really knows a lot about land navigation ...

[AspiringWarrior]

I just read through the wise old pathfinder's post. The knots would seem to solve the bead slippage problem. I'm going to go get a new base pace count today after work. I've only ever done a single measurement over a 100m track in training, but the scientist in me really likes the idea of taking a larger sample and averaging. I've also never kept DOPE on my body before. That seems like a solid idea, too. Thanks for the advice!!!