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00:04A platoon should be like a band of brothers.
00:10You have to form that bond.
00:14Between the geezer left and right of you.
00:17When shit does hit the fan.
00:21You don't want your muckers to the dart.
00:34We've got a shunder.
00:36We've got a very noob to come from all different walks of life.
00:39Can you give them a hug?
00:41I am like a boy surrounded by men.
00:43We don't know each other's strengths.
00:45We don't know each other's weaknesses.
00:46I think the rifle might think I'm some slightly posh Southerner.
00:50Let it fire.
00:53We've not got long to learn how each other tick.
00:56Who's your daddy?
00:57I want them to be proud.
00:59Mom.
01:00Baby.
01:01We need to form a family spirit between us.
01:04And become like a proper brotherhood.
01:08Show me a war face!
01:30Top Dog winner Callum Hancock continues to pull his weight.
01:39Dutton, let's go
01:41Ryan Dutton's on the road to recovery after his ankle injury
01:45It is not a rest station, let's go
01:50I've got a TV, a few flags
01:52An 18-year-old Owen Morris is finally decorating his room
01:56Five months after joining up
01:58And obviously I've got the bed where the dreams happen
02:05Have a sherbet pot please
02:10The platoon's training is complete
02:15They must now undertake two final tests to prove they're ready for war if the call comes
02:25On Dartmoor, they must complete a 30-mile endurance race across bogs and hills
02:31Can the platoon prove their bond and get every last rifleman around the course
02:39But first, they must pass Iron Storm
02:42A battle against an enemy force of tanks, artillery and soldiers
02:47Replicating war in Eastern Europe
02:49It will forensically examine every aspect of their training
02:54If we were to go to war, this is what it would look like
02:58Good night
03:02It could definitely be described as a busy week
03:04We're deploying on Monday
03:07I'm just pretty stressed trying to get everything done
03:09And make sure we're in a good place
03:11Because the last thing I want is for us to go out the door
03:13And be in shit state when we're kind of getting validated
03:17This is absolutely all of our training coming into one piece
03:21It's a straight pass valve
03:22So we're under an immense amount of pressure
03:27Platoon commander Drew is under more pressure
03:29Because over the summer, his platoon sergeant Dan Mann
03:33Left the army and has been replaced by a new sergeant
03:36Jack Hellyer
03:39So I've come in pretty sharpish
03:42And we're about to go on exile
03:43Which is really good news for me
03:45However, it's a good way to meet the platoon really
03:48Get on exile straight away
03:49Know what people are like
03:51Right, let's go
03:52Grab a big, let's go
03:56Iron Storm will be the ultimate test of the platoon's warfighting ability
04:01As each soldier will be equipped with a laser tracking system
04:04This will trace and record both their enemy kills
04:08And more crucially, if they've been shot
04:10There's actually a real life consequence in how well you're shooting
04:13And how well you're concealing yourself
04:15So if you're not doing your drills properly in your shit
04:17You're going to get shot and it's going to show up
04:22With success on Iron Storm resting on the platoon's marksmanship
04:26Drew takes him to the range for training
04:29With a magazine of 20 rounds
04:34Line three, you need to reshoot
04:35Is there any two rounds registered on target?
04:42One rifleman quickly emerges as the sharpest shot
04:48Morris, spot on, point of aim
04:51He's literally perfect shooting for that range
04:52It's a good start
04:55Just a bit of shooting
04:58He's off
04:59Six months ago
05:01Owen Morris joined up and became the platoon's youngest rifleman
05:05Yeah, stop being weak
05:07He's trained hard
05:09And shown he can keep up with the best of them
05:12On the battlefield
05:13And on the socials
05:16Holy shitmores
05:18If I haven't joined the army
05:20I'll probably just be working
05:21In some like, shitty job
05:24Earning not as good money as I am now
05:29I think I've done pretty good so far
05:32Probably gained a lot more confidence
05:35So on that, I want to prove what I can bring to the platoon
05:42On his first time shooting with the platoon
05:44Morris nails every target at 50 metres
05:49Now I'm going to be firing at 300 metres
05:52And it's six times the distance
05:56Morris' aim is spot on
05:58In true sniper fashion
06:00He's improving with the distance
06:02Michael Morris
06:04He's knocked out of the park
06:08Go to daddy, daddy put you in
06:11Lunches, got the lunches
06:13Bottles
06:13One rifleman who won't be going on Iron Storm
06:17Is Ryan Dutton
06:21The father of two has been battling an ankle injury for six months
06:27In Germany, his promotion dreams were all but ended when the old injury flared up
06:32One to ten, the pain on my ankle was ten
06:38Coming back from Germany, I wasn't in the best of mine states
06:42I was a bit like, pissed off with myself because my ankle creamed in again
06:46And I didn't know what the next steps were at that point in time
06:51So in my head, I look like I've just tumbled all the way back to the bottom again
06:57Having considered quitting
06:59The platoon's new sergeant Jack Hellier wants to rebuild Dutton's fitness and confidence
07:05You're going to do the 4 and then the 2k
07:08And you need to look deep inside your body
07:11And you're the master of your own fucking fate here
07:14So my first impressions of Rodman Dutton is
07:16He's got the cognitive ability
07:19It's just his fitness that lets him down
07:21He wants to promote
07:23But I think he's probably
07:25Legacy been told
07:27He's just not at that standard
07:28So a lot of self-motivation has been taken away from him
07:31He's kind of got comfortable with just accepting that
07:34I think it's changing his mindset to be like
07:38You are not that bloke
07:43Sergeant Hellier has given Dutton the target of completing the Dartmoor March
07:47To be reconsidered for promotion
07:50We don't have a lot of time
07:51However, we've written him like a zero to zero fizz plan
07:55Which I can then track
07:57I'm just going to find him now
07:59To see if he's done his fizz today like he was meant to
08:05This fizz programme
08:06He catered it to me basically
08:08He wanted me to tell him what I was eating
08:11And at the end of every week I've got to tell him how much I weigh
08:14Like he actually wants me to promote
08:16He actually wants me to improve
08:18So he's a really good sergeant
08:2213, 25
08:24Well done Duts
08:37It's the morning of Iron Storm
08:42Today, everything the platoon have learned
08:44Every drill, every attack
08:46Target, next target
08:47Every shot fired
08:48Right, Umber, let's go, let's move
08:51Months and months of training
08:52Ah!
08:53Is about to be put to the test
08:55Start, Rappi
08:59If you can't shoot straight on Iron Storm
09:01You'll get wiped out
09:03We've been training for this for the past six months
09:05You don't want to just get shot in the first five minutes, otherwise
09:09That's just all of that
09:10From nothing
09:20After nearly six months of training
09:22The first of the platoon's final tests has arrived
09:27On one side of Salisbury Plain
09:30An enemy force of tanks and artillery
09:32Is preparing to launch an attack
09:37On the other
09:38Charge with stopping them
09:40Is an opposing force
09:43Including the soldiers of 13 platoon
09:47English county
09:47Is Bullford one?
09:50No!
09:54My noodle wrap
09:56That wrap's good to go
10:04All soldiers and vehicles are being kitted out with the laser tracking system
10:10Every hit and miss will now be recorded
10:16It's probably the closest thing we've got to represent casualties
10:19And it will tell you through the actual test where you've been shot
10:22Or potentially kill you off
10:24We're here to learn
10:25If your skills drilled, whatever you're doing
10:28Is actually going to save your life
10:30On me! One man on me! Go!
10:32Jack Sherborne, known as Sherbs
10:34Is quickly promoted to corporal
10:35I love being in the rifles and I love the regiment
10:38Over the last six months
10:40He has pushed his soldiers to fight at the highest possible standard
10:44Let's fucking move!
10:46Taking rifleman Morris under his wing in the process
10:49I've got two kids and I've got a third
10:51Then third in 13 platoon 1 section
10:54I win Morris
10:56Iron Storm is Sherbs' chance to see if all his hard work has paid off
11:01The riflemen at this point really need to be on their A-game
11:05They've been trained, they've got the skills and drills
11:07To enable them to have a scrap
11:09So I fully trust them to be able to do what's necessary
11:16This exercise is a good opportunity to show everyone everything I learnt
11:20And just pull it into play
11:22Yeah, I think for a lot of the platoon there was stuff to prove
11:26What we were trying to get across is how good 13 can be
11:29You don't want to be the dickhead that gets killed first
11:35We're going to go out from here
11:36And I want you to fight like the devil
11:39Commanding Officer Five Rifles
11:40Lieutenant Colonel Henry Coltart
11:42A veteran of multiple foreign tours
11:45Issues his rallying cry
11:48Get into the mindset that you are being hunted
11:50The moment you drive out of this leaguer
11:51So let's fight for that ground as aggressively as possible
11:55Right, let's go, let's go, mount up, move
11:57Yeah, yeah, we're good to go
11:59Platoon commander Drew, leading 13 platoon into battle
12:03Only six months into his rifle's career
12:05Now has his reputation on the line
12:08There's a lot of very senior people looking at this exercise
12:11Really all of our training has been building towards this
12:13If it goes wrong, that is absolutely on me
12:16And that is my responsibility
12:20Drew and his soldiers are advancing further forward than any other platoon
12:25They're heading to a wood
12:27Overlooking the route the enemy are expected to take
12:30All right, happy
12:31From this position, Drew is planning an ambush
12:37Let's move, lad, to the edge of the wood block and then hold
12:43Shubbs' priority is to get his eight-man section to watch for advancing enemy
12:49The first mission was to create an observation point
12:54With eyes on the main routes for the enemy to advance
12:58So we're basically first warning that they're coming
13:03We're going to be staying here
13:04So we're going to start by digging out a little belly
13:10Halliday and Morris must conceal their position to avoid detection
13:16Theirs is the most forward position, the first in the firing line
13:22It was quite tense
13:24I don't think we had any idea how many vehicles there was going to be
13:30We were just sitting there waiting
13:34They're armed with a powerful anti-tank weapon
13:38I'm going to blow up some warriors
13:41Blow some people up
13:44What in the fuck is that?
13:49Morris, can you eyes on that?
13:54Where is it?
13:57Warrior
13:58Warrior
13:59Enemy
14:00Not sure
14:03We just see this vehicle crest the hill
14:06And then disappear again
14:08Yeah, scan that, scan that
14:11We had no clue where it had gone
14:13And we're sort of scanning everywhere
14:15And we can't
14:16Positively identify
14:18Who it is
14:23And then suddenly I
14:24Hear a
14:25Wagon coming up the
14:28Hill
14:32It could be enemy
14:33And they've snuck up on us really quick
14:36All the vehicles on our side had a red triangle in it
14:39To show them
14:40That they're friendly
14:41But
14:42There was nothing indicating it on the front
14:44Yep, I'm on it
14:47With both soldiers confident it's enemy
14:50The anti-tank weapon is readied
14:54Yep
14:54Got it
14:57Get low
15:02But with the vehicle just metres away
15:05Morris, wait
15:08Cancel
15:13Cancel
15:13And I managed to call him off
15:15Because just as it got in line with me
15:18On the track
15:19I noticed the call signs on it were friendly
15:25Friendly
15:28Very, very close to shooting at our own folks
15:31If they'd destroyed the warrior
15:3613 platoon would have failed this part of the exercise immediately
15:40Lucky enough we cancelled fire before anything happened
15:43Um
16:00Back in Bulford
16:02Ryan Dutton is following Sergeant Hellyer's fitness programme to the letter
16:06I feel better
16:08Still horrible when he's doing it
16:10That doesn't change
16:12But
16:13Got to put the effort in to get what you want
16:18He's got one month to get ready for the Dartmoor 30 miler
16:22I realise that I can do it
16:24It's just stepping stones take one day at a time
16:27He's definitely putting more effort in and stuff
16:31And watching everything that he eats
16:34I know he really wants it
16:37Promotion important for me is a selfish reason really
16:41The biggest pay increase in the armour
16:43Is from the lowest rank which is a rifleman
16:45To a Lance Corporal
16:48I've got a car to pay for
16:49And then clothes, food
16:51For a family of four
16:53It's just so I can support my family a lot better
17:02Back on Salisbury Plain
17:04Exercise Iron Storm continues
17:07Four and a half, no update
17:08We'll check my call signs now
17:1213 platoon are lying in wait to ambush the enemy
17:23It's a dust cloud
17:26Presumably bad guys
17:28Vehicles are seen on the move heading straight towards the hidden platoon
17:32Sherbs, two times warrior crossing in front of the woodblock
17:36They've just gone down to Lima crossing
17:38None of the vehicles are showing the friendly call sign
17:41I've got eyes on another vehicle
17:43Yeah, I've seen
17:45They're moving pretty sharpish
17:48Within minutes
17:50Seven tanks and five warriors
17:52Are a few hundred metres away
17:54It's coming to the right, Halliday
17:56Yeah
18:01Get ready to call, fellow
18:04Okay
18:06Come right, come right
18:07The first tank passes in front of Drew's warrior
18:10Let it fire
18:11On, on, come firing
18:16Yeah, we got it
18:18The tank is destroyed with a direct hit
18:21Yeah, that's dead, that's flashing
18:22Close the team up, let's go
18:24They've made their first kill
18:26And with their presence now known
18:28The ambush is on
18:29Let's move lads, weapons up
18:32Every foot soldier breaks cover
18:36There's a thrill of like
18:37I could potentially take these out
18:40You're like, yeah, come on then
18:41Let's hook in
18:42Let's scrap these
18:46It's gone, it's gone
18:51At that point when you're sort of surrounding
18:52You're trying to chase tanks down
18:54Like, the lads also have the skill set
18:56To be able to do the same
18:58Yeah, good, Maurice
19:02Right, kill him
19:03Fucking get in there mate
19:04You bugger, have a draw
19:07Okay, let's go
19:09Launching from the woods
19:11The platoon's warriors now take the fight to the enemy
19:15And flush others into the crosshairs of the waiting foot soldiers
19:19There's a huge amount of chaos
19:21And we've got to impart a lot of trust into the riflemen
19:26And that's absolutely smashed it
19:30After 15 minutes
19:31Every enemy tank has been eliminated
19:35In the fighting
19:3613 platoon have lost three warriors
19:39Alright, let's go, grab our bad food, let's go
19:41Grab our food, let's go
19:44Having passed the first part of the exercise
19:46They must now move to phase two
19:48Hold on, hold on there
19:51Door closing
19:53We get a call to basically reinforce
19:56A series of three buildings
19:58The platoon's mission is to defend the building complex
20:01From an enemy attack
20:05Just like they may have to in Ukraine
20:11They will have to fight till the very last man
20:14The longer they can hold out
20:16The higher they will score
20:19Alright, T5's on
20:21Keep building there
20:22Yeah, I'll be
20:23The platoon must defend every angle of approach
20:28My plan shoot, I want to that flat roof
20:30With that sharp shooter
20:31There's a nice sort of like little flat roof
20:35So I decide to like punch
20:36Right from Morris up onto the rooftop
20:38That's my sharp shooter
20:40Morris, top shooter in practice
20:42Is now the sniper
20:43Taking out enemy at long range
20:50Morris
20:51Yeah?
20:52How's my son doing?
20:53All good, Dad
20:55So I chose Morris because when I've had him
20:57He's been confident, he's been capable
21:00Let's go Morris, let's go
21:01In Germany, with Sherbs as a mentor
21:04Morris learned fast
21:05Nice weapons up, left to right, left to right
21:08Something he struggled with before the army
21:11When I was in school
21:12I wasn't like the smartest
21:15So that I'd try to do the work
21:17And then obviously I couldn't do it
21:20Because it was too hard for me
21:22So I just thought I'd mess around with my mates
21:25And like not do the work
21:27Morris, you see anything, let me know
21:30Morris passed through four secondary schools
21:32Like a few months before GCSEs
21:35The teachers were saying to me
21:37You ain't gonna join the army
21:40So what's your plan B?
21:41And I told them, I was like, there ain't no plan B
21:47I can hear a challenger
21:51You can hear the challengers, the warriors just in the distance
21:58Suddenly, the enemy force appears
22:01Yeah, warrior, warrior
22:03And then it all just started kicking off
22:09I've got a warrior on me
22:12The first warrior
22:17Filled with enemy soldiers
22:19Heads straight towards 13 platoons building
22:29Oi! You're dead! Both for you! Both for you! Dead!
22:33Morris single-handedly stops the first wave
22:36Morris has gotten pinned down with sharps here at the minute
22:44But another warrior arrives on the other side
22:47Unbeknownst to the platoon inside
22:52Company into the building! Company into the building!
22:55Company into the building!
22:55Where? Where? Where?
23:02In Iron Storm, 13 platoon are defending a building
23:08The longer they can hold out, the better they will score
23:14But enemy soldiers with green markings on helmets have arrived
23:25The enemy had progressed through the compound
23:28The guys started punching through the window
23:30And in a few minutes, everyone in the room
23:34We were all dead
23:39Everyone on the ground floor are quickly wiped out
23:42The platoon are in danger of failing this part of the exercise
23:46One last room dead, probably
23:49I'm room dead
23:50Who dead?
23:51No dead
23:52Not Morris keep engaging
23:54Their only hope now is Owen Morris
24:01Okay, lad
24:03There was me on the roof
24:05God knows how many there was I then
24:07It was a bit of a stick situation
24:09Morris is still alive up there
24:16Morris makes three more kills
24:18You're dead!
24:21Didn't have a scooby, did they?
24:23I can't
24:24He was probably the most confident I've seen him
24:27The geezer's there, he's still suppressing someone
24:29He's still in the fight
24:32One final warrior arrives
24:35Heading straight for Morris
24:38So, I've picked up
24:40Any time weapon
24:42He's fucking doing what you want a rifleman to do
24:45Boom, there you go
24:52Good Morris, love it
24:54Did I kill him?
24:55Fucking get in there mate
24:57Get a VC for that
25:04Come on
25:05Sherbs!
25:07Sherbs
25:07Right, on me
25:08Step down, step down, step down
25:09Got you
25:10Cheers
25:11Cool, good, good lad
25:12Let go, it's alright, it's good
25:13Boom
25:14As a kid, there wasn't a lot I really cared about
25:19So I didn't mind failing that score
25:21Because I didn't give a shit about it
25:22I did not enjoy it one bit
25:24But now, I'm in a job that I do enjoy
25:27I'm like
25:27I do care if I fail
25:29Because
25:30I just want to be the best I can
25:34Yeah, pop
25:37He gets on with the job
25:38He wants to get up on that roof
25:40And try and shoot people
25:41And have an effect
25:42So, he's been doing really well
25:44Yeah, he's been doing really well
25:46I'm the best
25:48Apart from his ears, ears might be ringing a bit now
25:52Morris' last stand has saved the day
25:5613 platoon have passed Iron Storm
25:59I just want to say really well done
26:01We destroyed an entire battle group plus
26:03In about four hours
26:04That was because of the quality of the tactics
26:07And the quality of what you did
26:08And we shouldn't lose sight of how far we've come
26:10So really well done, thank you
26:13I think we're all in a place where we know how to work with each other now
26:15And that's what Arm & Inventory is all about
26:17Is actually mutually supporting each other
26:19We've finished on a real high today
26:36Every platoon in five rifles is training for the Dartmoor march
26:40I want 40 burpees from everybody
26:43A 30 mile race across brutal terrain carrying a 30 kilo rucksack
26:49Keep it going, keep grinding it out
26:51Known as the patrols competition
26:53It's a chance for 13 platoons to see just how they measure up
26:57A patrols competition is a competition against other platoons
27:01To see who's sort of like in the best nick
27:03And you're not assessed individually, you're assessed as a group
27:06It's important for the riflemen to work hard for themselves
27:08But harder for each other
27:11With every fit soldier taking part
27:13It represents the ultimate test of a platoon's bond
27:18At the end of the day
27:19If we're warfighting
27:19It's always going to be a platoon as a minimum
27:21So I want everyone to be a part of that patrols comp
27:25To then have trust in the team
27:27That everyone's going to get round it
27:29Just hold your body up in the air
27:33It's dead easy
27:42Knees are going to hurt
27:43Backs are going to hurt
27:44Legs are going to hurt
27:45Yeah, your feet are going to hurt
27:48If we're going to ask
27:48Why if we only have a tad 4k
27:51To then do 35k
27:52For some of them yes
27:53Some of them can
27:54And some of them it's going to be project
27:56Salute pain
27:57And they're going to be in a real bad way
28:02For Ryan Dutton
28:03After a month of hard training
28:04This is his chance to prove he's worthy of promotion
28:09Yeah, no
28:10Don't like it
28:11I'm nervous
28:12Because it's just
28:13It's just a big thing
28:14You want to impress people
28:15You also don't want to come off
28:17And get another injury
28:20I've got a little bit more in my kit
28:21Because I'm just taking the sections kit
28:23So like
28:23I've seen Morris only a small lad
28:25Dutton's got a few injuries
28:26So I just thought
28:27May as well just take it
28:28Yes it's heavy
28:29Yes it's uncomfortable
28:30But I'm looking forward to it
28:33Keep going
28:34Keep going
28:35Keep going
28:36Six months ago
28:37Callum Hancock's strength and stamina
28:39Won him top dog
28:40The competition to find the company's best all round rifleman
28:48You do have to look out for each other
28:51We get deployed to dangerous areas
28:55Where you potentially don't always have a great equipment
28:57But what you can rely on is the trust and the bond that you have within your platoon
29:02To help you all stay alive
29:09The three hour journey to Dartmoor is a last chance for sleep
29:13Once they start they could be on their feet for 36 hours
29:19Operating on zero sleep for 36 hours
29:22This is tough
29:24Success to me will look like when it is going to get tough
29:26You know you can trust each other
29:28You're all going to get through this kind of thing
29:30Failure would be you know losing people
29:35We are here
29:37It's not raining
29:38Which is good
29:39Just they're quite hilly
29:42Dartmoor
29:43One of the toughest military training areas in Britain
29:47Steep, wet and unforgiving
29:48There will be little protection here for the riflemen
29:52I've been here a few times
29:53Didn't get a good rating last time on TripAdvisor
29:56No doubt it will be fucking lower this time
29:59Right time team
30:01Just come over here a second
30:02So I'll make you want to speak to you
30:03As soon as you push outside this gates
30:05Right
30:06It's not easy
30:06It's going to be testing
30:07It's demanding
30:08You're absolutely going to question your life choices
30:11Right
30:11On every single stage of this route
30:13Dig deep
30:14Work hard
30:15Stick together as a team
30:18Are you smiling at mod?
30:20No it's not his weather
30:21It's not his weather
30:25It's not his weather
30:26Rival platoons have been dispatched onto the course every half hour since early this morning
30:35The 30 mile route passes through checkpoints
30:38Testing the platoon's combat skills
30:41Right troops just close in round the kit
30:44The first test is weight carrying
30:47Right welcome to the first stand yeah
30:49This is going to be a burden run
30:50How this is going to look to use then
30:51You've got 14 jerry cans
30:533 ammo tins
30:54And 5 power bags yeah
30:5512 years
30:56Are going to split down
30:57Carry all that kit along the route
30:59It's a timed event
31:00Best time wins
31:02This test simulates resupplying a platoon on an Eastern European battlefield
31:06In position ready
31:09Standby
31:09Go
31:10Go Shards lead it
31:11Let's go
31:16Several other platoons have already completed the test
31:20Time to beat
31:215-20
31:24Just keep going
31:25Just keep going
31:26It's 20 kilos each arm
31:28Made for a lot of those rifles
31:29That is half their body weight
31:31That is half their body weight
31:32Mate
31:33Stick with it troops
31:34Open up on the flat
31:41Good time so far
31:42Just over 2 minutes gone
31:45Hancock
31:45Hancock is first in
31:47Strong mate
31:48Drop that kit off where he found it
31:50And goes back to help his teammates
31:53It's not comfortable
31:54I don't care who you are
31:55It's not comfortable for anyone
31:56I've got a good poker face so
31:58You don't know I'm in clip
31:59Let's go
32:00You can see the finish
32:02Last stretch
32:04Straight in on a knee
32:05True
32:06Straight in
32:07Last one in
32:10Time 4-52
32:11Best time so far
32:13Right let's go
32:15Really strong effort from everyone
32:16Best teamwork I've seen so far
32:18So
32:25With a strong start
32:26The platoon head through the mist
32:28To the next checkpoint
32:2915 kilometres away
32:35At that point
32:36You're not that bad
32:37Because you've just started
32:39Your body's fresh
32:40You know I was high
32:42Go on dance
32:43Good work
32:47I think a rifle at this point
32:48Is something we don't know
32:49What they're going into
32:50I think they were like
32:51Alright this
32:52It might not be too bad
32:57You're at grid 60658900
33:00Only defenceable area
33:02Which is
33:02After six hours
33:03They reach the second test
33:06Eliminating enemy soldiers
33:07On hostile terrain
33:09So the ground you're operating
33:11Is that low ground
33:12You can see
33:12To your back right
33:14The main challenge is
33:15To clear
33:16A pretty large
33:17Area of ground
33:18With our patrol
33:19Our main issue to this
33:21Was the ground
33:21Was absolutely horrendous
33:22It was effectively a big bog
33:23Going uphill
33:25The platoon have one hour
33:27To find and kill
33:28Three soldiers
33:29Hidden in the bog
33:31Sherbs let me know
33:32When you're happy
33:32We've got some overwatch there
33:33I'll start punching Team 2 forward
33:35Go Morris
33:36Stand up
33:52F**k this
33:53Oh mate
33:55Lighten
33:56Up
33:56And take one step
33:58And my foot literally
34:00Disappears into the ground
34:01I'm up to like
34:02Meet my groin in water
34:05I think pretty much everyone just fucking stacked it.
34:09You're not a fucking joke.
34:11Falling over, getting back up.
34:14Falling over.
34:17What a smell.
34:18Nearly lost me boot at one point.
34:19Oh, you fucker.
34:22After 20 minutes, the platoon have moved only 100 metres.
34:27Fucking hell.
34:28It was probably the worst terrain I've actually come across
34:30in terms of trying to do any sort of attack on.
34:32Oh, mate.
34:34We're going. Let's move.
34:35It's fucking hard work. Let's go.
34:37Yeah.
34:44It takes the platoon 40 long minutes to reach and kill the enemy.
34:48Protection clear!
34:52Mission complete.
34:53Right.
34:55Almost.
34:56We've actually got a geyser stuck in the bog.
34:59Can't win them all.
35:1313 platoon are on Dartmoor, and they're 10 miles into their final test.
35:21When you're soaking, walking around, it's just horrible,
35:24because you're squelching, your feet are rubbing, and you get cold.
35:29After 12 hours of walking, the sergeant calls a halt,
35:33where boots are causing blisters.
35:36Everything we do is on our feet, so we need to be all over the foot admin.
35:41Set the insoles of your boots out.
35:43Try and get some of the water out of there.
35:45Oh, yeah.
35:46The minute you start getting blisters and stuff,
35:48the minute you're going to have a bit of a bad time with it.
35:51It's all in horrible places.
35:52This is really going to work when it comes off.
35:56Maurice's feet, in particular, need attention.
36:00Painful in the nine.
36:02Right from Robson's feet, well, we're pretty bad.
36:04So we had, you know, a blister on the back of his heel,
36:07a blister on his heel, right at the bottom as well,
36:11and a blister further towards the top.
36:14Feel like an old man and a granny.
36:18Feet patched up.
36:19The platoon are back on it.
36:22Right, team one, get on the track.
36:25Team two, get on the track.
36:26Team three, where do you think you're going?
36:28The track.
36:32With ten miles to go,
36:35the route takes the platoon up to the highest point on Dartmoor.
36:42That was awful.
36:44It was like a wall of just stone.
36:51No-one would think fucking ice is great.
36:54You've just got to put that little voice in the back of your head
36:56and tell them to piss off.
37:04My calves were actually screaming at me, to be fair.
37:08In the back of my head,
37:10if I come off this, I'm not going to promote.
37:12It's not an if, but, or maybe, it's just definite.
37:15You won't promote, so I just want to push through.
37:26That was awful.
37:28That's the worst part of it, yeah?
37:33As Dutton grits his teeth, Maurice's blisters are deteriorating.
37:40Every time I put weight on it, it kills.
37:47Every step it was just getting worse, just the boots rubbing on it.
37:50And I was just thinking, I've got so much more to do.
37:55Maurice had one of the worst blisters I've seen.
37:59Take your warm kit, mate. Chuck me your fucking scoff.
38:04Sherb steps in, offloading most of Maurice's rucksack into his home.
38:09I'm just helping a mate out, cos he's got fucking bad feet.
38:11He's fucking smashing it, but we're a team, aren't we?
38:14So we will fucking work together.
38:20The only thing I can bring myself to quitting...
38:24..I just... I always, like, wanna complete everything.
38:29And, er, just not fail it.
38:32Cos no-one, no-one likes failing, do they?
38:35See, I haven't had anyone come off yet.
38:37And, yeah, that's, like, that sort of aim is to get us all around.
38:41As a full-bodied mate, to be able to actually fight at the end of it.
38:49As darkness falls, it's still two hours back to camp.
38:58The platoon really shows its character when you get to the last stages of the patrol.
39:03You've walked potentially up to 40 kilometres at this point,
39:05and you've got the last ten to go.
39:07When it gets dark, the morale drops quite quickly.
39:13Maurice offloads more kids to Sherb's as his feet deteriorate further.
39:19Cool.
39:20At that point, it's not to do with fitness.
39:24It's him and his own head fighting demons with his feet.
39:27Like, you don't really go,
39:28Oh, this is shit, I wanna get off of this, my feet hurt.
39:30Like, you don't get that from him.
39:32He just... I guess he probably suffers in silence, yeah?
39:41You're good to go?
39:42You just wanna get in bed and curl up and die.
39:46Let's go, let's go, Dutton, let's go.
39:50Let's fucking send the last bit, send the last bit.
39:54Fucking botchy after that, just get fucking in.
39:5930 miles after they set off, the platoon returned to camp,
40:05with no man left behind.
40:07Get yourselves in here, lad.
40:09Well done, Dutton. Come on, last little bit, then.
40:12Then you cross the line, you feel a whole relief.
40:15The relief of, I've done it now, as in the sense of,
40:18I'm literally going back at home.
40:22But there's a sting in the tail.
40:25OK, 30 platoon, first of all, well done, yeah,
40:29for making it this far.
40:30You've got one more final push, OK, to go.
40:35What you're gonna need for this, then,
40:37is your webbing, day sack and weapon.
40:41The platoon must complete a mile run,
40:44carrying 20 kilograms of battle kit.
40:47It's the exercise Dutton fears the most.
40:50Starting the fucking patrol with everyone,
40:52I'm finishing it with fucking everyone.
40:54Look left and right at you now,
40:56and you're all fucking finished with these people.
41:01In position ready!
41:04Exercise, begin!
41:09The platoon put Dutton at the front.
41:15Obviously, Ratham and Dutton were probably in a lot of pain
41:16at this point, but we're absolutely there to support him.
41:18Come on, the platoon!
41:20Outstanding work!
41:2130, soon!
41:23No-one wants to see him fail.
41:26I'm going to step out slightly, alright?
41:28She's just downhill.
41:33The army's 100% changed me, like, from civil life to squaddy life.
41:40Because it gives you a mentality.
41:42Yes, you're in the shit, but you've got to do it.
41:45On the hood, straight now!
41:47Come on, Dutton!
41:49Come on, Dutton!
41:53Come on, Dutton!
41:53Come on, Dutton!
41:55Come on, Dutton!
41:55Come on, Dutton!
41:55There's literally everyone calling his name,
41:58getting him to the front,
41:58just giving him that final bit of motivation to keep going.
42:01Good 13!
42:02Keep it up!
42:02Come on, Dutton!
42:06Come on, Dutton!
42:14You're going to take us next, guys!
42:16Turn it in, and that is you!
42:18Come on, Dutton!
42:20Come on, Dutton!
42:22Come on, Dutton!
42:23Finish the last one!
42:24Come on, Dutton!
42:25Keep going!
42:26Keep going!
42:27Keep going!
42:27Come on, Dutton!
42:29Good one!
42:33Good one!
42:3513 platoon finish in 31 hours and 13 minutes.
42:40Of 15 teams, they've come second.
42:44Only one other finished with all their riflemen.
42:47That's what I wanted, just to finish with the full platoon.
42:51Still wanted.
42:52It's incredible, isn't it?
42:53You finish it as a team.
42:56Yeah, good to do.
42:58But to see them boys, like, dig deep,
43:01fight some demons in the early hours
43:02and then come out the other end
43:03and finishing it strongly together.
43:05I was actually really proud of the platoon as a whole.
43:12Six months ago, few of these soldiers knew each other.
43:15If anyone's given you any shit,
43:17I'll slap one on the chin for you.
43:19Since then, they've been to hell and back.
43:21Look them in the fucking face
43:23when you thrust that sword into their chest.
43:27Putting their bodies on the line.
43:29Doing whatever it takes.
43:32Do not quit! Do not quit!
43:34To prepare for war when the call comes.
43:38Yeah, let's fucking go!
43:39Through it all, they've become a band of brothers.
43:42They've become a platoon.
43:44The army, the infantry and the rifles
43:47is particularly good at
43:48throwing lots of very different individuals
43:50into a melting pot together.
43:52You know, it doesn't really matter
43:53what your background is
43:53or what you've done before.
43:55It does boil down to,
43:56can you do your job
43:57and look out for the person next to you?
43:59And it means you get
44:00incredibly strong bonds with each other.
44:02It creates sort of like a family
44:04and everyone within it
44:06really has been through the same stuff.
44:08Then creates this sort of jail
44:10where you're like, yeah, cool.
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