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Uh it's a recon challenge just to , I ,

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I'm pretty sure it's time to push you

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to your limits . Uh One , I've heard

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100 and 30 kilometers distance uh with

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good command tasks in between . And

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it's generally just designed to test

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your mental and physical robustness .

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Yeah . So it's just uh a challenge for ,

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well , it's a recon challenge for

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international teams . Uh It's really

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difficult again . All it is is we're

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getting grids for positions . Uh We

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patrol there , uh tactically patrol

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there . We get to that position . We'll

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have to conduct a , a challenge or a

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task , a command task of such that may

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be an escape and evade or getting

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across a river tactically along them

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lines . Uh After we complete the task ,

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the scoring system , uh score you from

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how you've done on the task and the

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time that you've got from where you

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started from in the distance , uh the

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time you've made the distance and

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you'll just do that rin to repeat with

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different tasks in between . Uh I think

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it was for us , the thing that caught

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us most off guard we did not expect at

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all would probably be the the um the

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cover stories been given a piece of

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paper with every detail about a human

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being more detailed than you know ,

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about yourself getting told to remember

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it . And then when you get him captured ,

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having to read that information back ,

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I think that was pretty , pretty

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surreal . To be honest , we've

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obviously all done in our own uh

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respected uh armies , our own

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challenges . I like uh patrol

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competitions . I think this really does

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put them . Uh This is like a next level

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up . This is generally an international

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competition that everyone's had a ,

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should have had a really good

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preparation time , easy mo uh three

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months , minimum prep time for it . It

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really does test your mental and

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physical robustness . Uh It is

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genuinely , really difficult again . I

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think it comes to the point where you

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need that uh preparation time for it .

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I think without the , the uh a good

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prep , you just , I don't think it's ,

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you're ever gonna get to the end of it ,

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to be honest now . So , unfortunately ,

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our team had to retire just due to it

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was , I think it's a snow , we'll call

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it a snowball effect on the actual time .

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So as you'll get into these checkpoints ,

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the time you get to rest shortens and

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before you know it , you get in next to

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no time to rest and you've got to get

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your kick back on and do the same again .

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I think sustainability of the , the

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troops that we were with on the patrol

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comp and it was just becoming lower and

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lower . And again , it's just making

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that call going . May all be good .

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Right . Right . This second , but given

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20 more kilometers , can we still

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sustain this pace and still get a good

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enough about amount of prep time where

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the lads can then take the boots off ,

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get some water on , relax and just get

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themselves ready for the next task . I

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think you have to make a call where

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it's , if it's not sustainable and this

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is causing , could potentially cause

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some actual injuries . Again , we

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didn't really have any prep time . So

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for us , it was more , we didn't know

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what we were getting in for as soon as

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we're here , we had to like we're

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figuring it all out as we go along with

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the difficulty of the challenge . It

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just wasn't sustainable for us at this

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time . They said given the actual right

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amount of prep time , it'd be a really

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good experience to come back and do it

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again . Uh Again , if I was to give any

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advice to any , especially our next

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British team or any team after us , I

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think it would generally be just get

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yourself a good prep , understand the

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actual competition fully . Um Give it

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the credit that the credit's due for

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this one . It's not something you can

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just get your kit on and just go and do .

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It's something you actually need to

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prep for take time uh and get yourself

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mentally and physically prepared along

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with just getting that weight on your

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back and just traveling that long

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distances . I generally think

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preparation is key on this one ,

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especially just due , just due to the

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difficulty .