Whilst noting your undoubted enthusiasm, I have to sate that in my day one learned how to walk before being taught how to run....
Yes, I was taught to navigate a Hunter to recce targets around Wales without any marks on a map whilst leading a PAI in another jet......but I'd also been taught how to navigate a Chipmunk properly using a Dalton for pre-flight planning just a couple of years earlier. The skill required for either task was not the same; regrettably that fact no longer appears to hold sway in the current training system.