This is also the reason why the expedition of the 1st Marine Regiment was the first to be established, with the highest reliability and comprehensive combat effectiveness, and the vast majority of the combat forces of the face team were stationed in this training base as bodyguards.

Once the more than 700 cadets here have completed their training and are on their jobs, members of the 1st Marine Regiment will also be given higher security clearance. As the new members of the expedition, the logistics and heavy firepower support forces in the rear, ready to pass through the space-time gate to support the expedition members on missions in the other world.

Therefore, in order to cooperate smoothly in the future, the members of the 1st Marine Regiment have conducted a lot of mixed training with the cadets in the past few months. This begs the question, why are the main members of the expedition here en masse today?

The reason is also very simple: after more than four months of professional skills training and one and a half months of mixed training, the first batch of expedition cadets and the officers and men of the 1st Marine Regiment have completed all the scheduled training courses.

The month ahead will be a battle-tested time for all of them. In other words, the expedition team will conduct a graduation exam for the cadets!

After the exam, the core members of the expedition team will score according to everyone's table, and those who pass the guò exam will be recognized by the expedition team and officially enter the internal organization of the space-time expedition!

The 1st Marine Regiment as an auxiliary officer also has the opportunity to be an emergency rescue force if the cadets are in distress during the test, and if they perform well in the process, they also have the opportunity to join the expedition......

When Shen Chao's shuttle plane arrived over the training base, it was still early in the morning, and the sky was not yet fully bright. The four shuttles they were flying in had just passed through the thick layers of the atmosphere. At an altitude of 8,000 meters, it is being rearranged in a two-column formation.

The shuttles in formation slow down and lower altitude. While slowly approaching the training base landing field in the desert. Viewed from this height, the training base, which covers an area of nearly 10 square kilometers on the ground, is only the size of a tablecloth.

The boundaries of the various camps and training grounds in the training base are as vague as chalk-drawn lines on the playground, and the outlines are not clear.

Even with Shen Chao's super eyesight, he could only see that several infantry and armored phalanxes were gathering in the camp near the landing site to the north, and it seemed that the students were preparing to meet their "examiners".

Seeing this, Shen Chao couldn't help but think of the scene when he took the college entrance examination many years ago, although the personnel, scale and content of the exam are completely incomparable, but the mood of the newcomers below is probably not as relaxed as himself and other candidates at that time.

Because for the students, the significance of this exam to them is basically the same as the significance of the college entrance examination to Shen Chao at that time, and it is an important moment that determines their fate. But if you pass guò, you will have a foreseeable future, and if you fail, you don't know when you will have another chance......

But the students below weren't the only ones nervous. A few kilometers in the air above their heads. The mood of several examiners was actually not much lighter than theirs.

"What's wrong, Jonathan, what are you worried about?" Shen Chao, who was sitting opposite the cockpit, suddenly withdrew his gaze looking out and asked Jonathan, who was sitting diagonally opposite him. At this time, Jonathan was looking down at the helmet in his hand. Anyone could tell from his furrowed brow that he was anxious.

"Nothing. I'm just a little nervous," Jonathan replied with a sigh of relief. As the outlier of the core members of the old team of the expedition. He only learned about the specifics of the exam a few days ago, and was brought in as an assistant examiner without knowing much.

Although being included in the short list of examiners is an affirmation of his abilities and qualifications, the more he knows about the content he wants to "proctor" and the information about the students. The more unsteady my heart becomes.

Shen Chao didn't find it particularly strange that Jonathan was nervous, because part of the evacuation plan during the final mission (exam) of this group of students was to be taken care of by Jonathan and other examiners.

The stakes are important and related to the development of the expedition in the next few years, so all the examiners are senior members of the expedition, and they will supervise, coordinate, add and subtract specific exam content during the exam. Even Jonathan, who often plays soy sauce in the team, has been assigned to the status of an associate examiner.

Jonathan was responsible for coordinating the entry and exit of a large group of candidates from one of the first batch of more than 700 candidates to be tested.

In other words, if any of the 14 fluctuating test teams had an accident during the entry and exit phases of the mission, he would not only have to observe and score, but also be jointly and severally liable afterwards.

And according to the syllabus of the exam that they have drawn up that can be called hellish difficulty, the possibility of a serious accident or even mass casualties in this exam is almost infinite!

"I'm afraid that they will be wiped out, and then you, the examiner, will be blamed by everyone?" Shen Chao thought about it and then asked, he could understand Jonathan's feelings, because if there was a big accident during the exam, he, the chief planner, would be the biggest person in charge.

However, he was not as nervous as Jonathan, partly because he knew more about the students below and the details of the exam plan, and more importantly, because he already had a plan for remedial action after the fact.

"yes, I'm worried to death. It's funny to say, but now that I think about it, I wasn't so nervous when I was on my first field mission. After all, I was only responsible for myself at the time. ”

Jonathan replied with a slightly wry smile. He smiled self-deprecatingly, as if reminiscing about his good days as a rookie in the field.

"But I don't really have that confidence in these guys. Captain, you know, according to Todd's training schedule, he only trained the last few NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical and Biological Weapons) trainees who failed in a row last week to pass the standard, and at this junior level, they were allowed to perform such a complex multi-joint mission this time, while also ensuring the safety of each cadet as much as possible..., to be honest, it is really unlikely. Jonathan thought about it and spit out the worry in his heart very simply.

Contrary to what the students in the phalanx below imagined, the content of the test given to them by the expedition team this time was not to let them practice the various skills they had learned under strict protection, do a scoring, and then decide to pay attention to the horses according to the scores......

In fact, contrary to what everyone thinks, because this batch of graduates has an important position and role in the planning of future expeditions, they will bear a lot of pressure in the future.

Therefore, in order to keep them from dropping the chain at the critical moment, the main team members are ready to toss this batch of candidates to death during the exam, strive to remove the chaff, test the limits of the students, and lay a solid foundation for future development.

The test content that the trainees will receive is to complete a series of large-scale cross-plane reconnaissance and combat missions that the expedition has long been formulated, including some high-intensity, high-difficulty, and high-danger combat missions.

On the one hand, it is to test the students' learning results and field work ability, and on the other hand, it is also to prepare for some large-scale important operations of the expedition in the future.

In other words, the content of the exam is to perform a series of dynamic, real-world plane reconnaissance and intervention missions with limited information, intelligence, and logistical support, or even deliberately distorted intelligence. The difficulties and dangers to be faced in the mission are very real.

Especially in the final stage of the test, in the first few stages of the test, the trainees who have passed the test (still alive and completed the mission) will be gathered together and led by senior members to carry out a large-scale exploration mission in a plane that is considered a high risk for the current senior members of the expedition.

When the time comes, the lives of all those involved in ground operations on the ground will be in danger. Moreover, in order to ensure that each participant who passes the guò test can adapt to their future frequent and undetermined planar exploration program, one of the main points of the test is to disrupt the trainees' routine during training.

For example, during the exam, the fixed squads and squadrons formed by the trainees during training will be disrupted, and even their command and communication systems will be forcibly disrupted during the mission execution, so that they can temporarily cooperate with their unfamiliar teammates to solve problems.

Performing dangerous and incomplete, or even incorrect plane reconnaissance missions with people they don't know well can be a test for even experienced veterans, let alone newcomers who have only experienced interdimensional reconnaissance in the virtual training room and have never actually participated in even one plane reconnaissance.

"You know, they can't stay in training camp for the rest of their lives. And they won't have more difficulties in this test than we have had on our previous trips, ....... As for security? Many of our previous trips weren't as safe as they were. Again, there is no rear support. Like all people, they can opt out of the expedition at any time if they are afraid of danger......"

After Shen Chao finished answering Jonathan's question, he stretched out the window again and continued to look at the phalanx of students on the playground. His expression was still calm, but there was a subtle hint of enthusiasm in his eyes.

He didn't want to blame Jonathan for being cautious, as he and most of the people on the expedition were just as uncertain about what the cadets would be looking at in the next few days.

But after a long discussion, he and the other core members realized that only by accurately measuring the extreme level of this group of students in all aspects and picking out the best of them, will their expedition have a future at all. (To be continued......)