I am currently in Afghanistan and wanted a watch that would tell me how far I am running in the mornings, particularly as I'm training for a charity race over here. I didn't want to spend hundreds of dollars on a GPS watch when the unpredictable mountain weather would probably mean that I'd have no GPS service half the time. I was pleased to find that this watch was accurately set right out of the box. I had no trouble setting the watch to Kabul time or figuring out how to use the stopwatch portion. I was most pleased with the fact that it will show military time, that it is user friendly and that the distance is accurate (I tested it on our known 2-mile running track). Though I was disappointed to find that my running time is not quite as fast as I'd hoped, I love that it will tell me kcal's burned as well and that I can set it to lap or straight distance.

BLUF: If you're military and don't want to spend a ton on a watch, while still having accurate distance times, buy this one. It's cheap enough that if you destroy it on deployment it won't matter, but it will do exactly what you need it to while preparing for - or taking - a PT test.