Woke up early the next morning and tore down camp. Back in the classroom by 0730.
Started the morning by making fires and creating char material from the punkwood we collected the day before. The day before we had started with a bic, fatwood dust or shavings and a ferrocerium rod, this was just your tinder bundle and a ferro rod.
Then we learned more about the different types of emergency shelters, basic water purification, and the very basics of land navigation and using a compass. We then went out in our groups to practice land navigation with an instructor and to pick up another bag of smalls/ sticks.
We came back to check on our char material and both Cooper and I had some.
Then they told us to top off our water bottles (stainless steel wide mouth quart Nalgene style) and we have 10 minutes to build a fire and get that water to a rolling boil AND GO!
After that exercise, we went on a land navigation course. I made a mistake and we were a few hundred yards off on the last point and didn't find it, but we made the time deadline with the other points and the other requirements to bring back. Then 10 minutes to build 3 of the 4 shelters which we barely failed at.
At that point we needed to be perfect on the remaining deliverables to be able to qualify for the patch. No pressure. It's also almost 6pm and it's been a long day already. So the final exercise. Another land navigation course (timed of course) along with foraging for a bag of sticks, filling our water bottles up from the creeks we would cross and some other stuff. We we got back you show your requirements and then you have 15 minutes as a team (Cooper and I) to make a fire from our char material and the sparks from a bic lighter that has no fuel large enough to bring both quarts of water to a boil. Also, you need to construct 3 of the 4 shelters.
We did it! Cooper made such a great fire lay that one i got the char going the flames were over his head at one point. I had the first shelter (lean to) almost completed before he had the fire lay done. No joke, 2-3 minutes is all it takes.
Then after all the teams were done, we set up another shelter, created a browse bed mattress and spent the night in it with nothing but our 10Cs.