The final assessment gets underway. It’s a forty eight hour immersive role play exercise at an impromptu operating base deep in hostile territory. The team must set up camp with their dogs as they monitor threats at every turn. Each member of the team must demonstrate that they have mastered all of the skills they have learned over the last two weeks if they are to pass the course. They come under enemy fire, learn some sharp lessons in base security and nearly lose a dog team on an exposed ridge.