As the sergeant explains that a successful mission will return to the recruits one item from the box, the camera zooms into a sad teddy bear peaking out from a storage bin. Fox really knows how to toy with our emotions. D.I. McSweeney asks the recruits what they would like from the boxes. We almost weep for joy when Yaney expresses a desire to be reunited with his balloons. The mission involves evacuating a jeep, four dummy casualties and three supply crates in 60 minutes from the scene of a pretend exploded mine.
Big caps go off.
The Art of War' is great and everything, but there are still a few differences between your cubicle and a foxhole. Those dummies must be pretty heavy because it takes four contestants to carry a mannequin off-screen. But finally, the mission is completed in time. The recruits climb onto a platform to salute the sky and set off a siren. Moretti takes a moment to congratulate himself.